Welcome to this week’s Top 20 most liked images on Edinburgh O’Clock bluesky account - 24 images every day - a fantastic random selection curated by an algorithm, then liked by followers on this bluesky account.
I found this track to go with the cloudy theme of many of this week’s images and came across Zach Sobiech’s inspiring story.
No.20 is Magic Corner on Arthur’s Seat. I called it this because as you drive around the road here the view suddenly opens out onto a full vista of Edinburgh Old Town, but the first thing that hoves into view is the good ship Embra Castle herself.
This was a shot I first took in 2014 and keep meaning to repeat, but I’ve not yet got round to it. The list grows longer.
No.19 - Meadows blizzard
No.18 - the 3 spires of the Royal Mile, the Hub, St Giles, and The Tron Kirk.
No.17 - the full moon and the Bass Rock with the Belt of Venus light that we often see on the opposite horizon to where the sun has slid. Sometimes called the Anti Twilight Arch the sun’s rays are backscattered onto any clouds 180 degrees from sunset and the blue cloud underneath is the shadow of Earth itself cast onto the clouds.
No.16 - The city from up in the Pentland Hills just before sunset.
No. 15 - we seem to have. cloud theme building this week - I love the wee cloudburst thing going on here.
No.14 - Full moon through the Scott Monument archway.
No.13 - Lorna & Andrew on a blue sunrise with the bridges in the mist
No.12 - 30 seconds of quiet swishing beachwash at Blackness Castle
No.11 - some nights the sky just goes nuclear over Edinburgh
No.10 - The Meadows shortly before the blossom was beaten by torrential rain below that monster cloud.
No.9 - the clock was switched off some of the time during Covid.
No.8 - Rainbow over East Lothian
No.7 - The fortress from way up in the hills.
No.6 - Aberdour sunrise
No.5 - Linlithgow sunrise
No. 4 - St Abbs Head lighthouse in the blue hour before sunrise.
No.3 - the wrecked boat on Longniddry beach
No 2 - the city from Holyrood
No.1 - that puddle at the Balmoral again - I’ll need to check my algorithms.
That’s yer lot folks
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I’ll be chucking you over some very recent images over the weekend too.
Maybe see you out there.
TD
Can’t choose between 5 , 15 and 20, all magical
the castle feels like a fairy tale