Piping @ scattering ceremony

**Tartan Hiker** · 10th July 07, 08:34 PM

Here's a photo I took of my son, MadBagpiper, as he was preparing to play for an ash-scattering ceremony here in Montreat, NC last week. The tartan is the Montreat Scottish Society tartan.

You have to look closely to see that he's standing across a stream from the ceremony. The distance, combined with the sound of the mountain stream, added a wonderful quality to the music.

**Archangel** · 10th July 07, 08:51 PM

Wow, looks surreal, mystical.

This always sounds wrong but it looks like an effect that Photoshop tries to reproduce.

**emolas** · 11th July 07, 01:53 AM

The faint sound of pipes in the distance is one of the most poignant and appropriate things for a funeral I have ever heard. Far better in that circumstance than for the piper to be right there in the ceremony, IMHO. As Archangel said, that is an excellent picture.

**cessna152towser** · 11th July 07, 02:45 AM

Very poignant; somehow this looks just like it could have taken place in a remnant of the ancient Caledonian forest.

**Jerry** · 11th July 07, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by emolas

The faint sound of pipes in the distance is one of the most poignant and appropriate things for a funeral I have ever heard. Far better in that circumstance than for the piper to be right there in the ceremony, IMHO. As Archangel said, that is an excellent picture.

I agree. The piper playing and walking slowly out of the fog during the early morning memorial service for golfer Payne Stewart after he was killed in a plane crash was the most haunting thing I've ever seen. Does anyone know where I might find a video of the service.