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I’ve been wanting to get a gloamin* shot of St Giles ever since they installed their new lights and a wee walk up a hill rewarded me with this glorious sight. Old College is the dome on the left which has a gilded statue called Golden Boy on the top.
*gloaming or gloamins is Scots for twilight, dusk (much more romantic and conveniently rhymes with “roaming”)
This closer crop highlights the summits of 2 mountains sitting about 60 miles away - Stob Binnein and Ben More which tower above the village of Crianlarich. I’m used to pulling these views together with a big telephoto lens but it still amazes me that we can see halfway across Scotland with such detail.
This spirey view is within Edinburgh and features Barclay Viewforth kirk which nestles on Bruntsfield Links at the end of the Meadows. The famous Golf Tavern can be identified with its green light to the left of the church spire and it presides over a 36 hole “pitch and putt” golf course with the game supposedly played on the links since the 1500’s.
I especially love the gradation you get with a good gloam where the bright blue transforms into the deep burnished ochre colours. It’s like an atmospheric litmus paper or “gloamometer”.
As our days get shorter and the sun goes much deeper underneath our feet at night we will gradually lose our long twilights and so our gloams will lose their staying power and we’ll have to find our romantic places indoors, like a good Scottish pub.