Alan H and the Luminous Joan in Scotland- let the photo onslaught begin! Days 1-2

[Alan H]

Mattie, I have about 30 pictures of Edinburgh Castle, but the thing is, if you want to see Edinburgh Castle, just go online and "Google" it. There are 100,000 pictures of Edinburgh Castle on line, and 99% of them are better than mine. Besides, Edinburgh Castle is a mob scene, there are hundreds of people all over the place and for me, it's hard to see the PLACE for all the PEOPLE. Likewise, I have pictures of other churches including the Canongate Kirk and GrayFriars (which is a terribly important church in the History of Scotland) , and of Holyrood Palace, and of the Scottish Parliament Building. But again...why show you that? I loved those things, but when I go to an OLD place, what I love most is to try to FEEL the people who lived there.

One of the places which is very old, but now changed and yet very powerful, is the WWI and WWII memorial in the church atop Edinburgh Castle. That church is hundreds of years old. Yet I did not take photographs there, because I chose to be respectful of the memory of those who died in those wars, and "flash" just did not seem right.