June 1996, Scotland, Oban, view from the Dunollie Castle over Firth of Lorne and Kerrera Island. Dunollie castle used to be our camp site if we had to wait for a ferry from Oban to Outer Hebrides or Isle of Mull. The view from the castle is amazing both under the clear sky and the heavy clouds. In my opinion view over Kerrera and Firth of Lorne is one of the most beautiful Scottish landscapes I have ever seen so far. This picture is created from 3 independent ones scanned from the original print and then attached in Photoshop CS2. Camera: Zenit ET, film: Kodak 200.
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But even as he spoke he turned his glance eastwards, and he saw that on that side the hills were higher and looked down upon them; and all those hills were crowned with green mounds, and on some were standing stones, pointing upwards like jagged teeth out of green gums. J. J. Tolkien, “Lord Of The Rings - Fellowship Of The Ring”, chapter 8.
1998, Ring Of Brodgar, Mainland Of Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Sometimes you can take a photo which suits perfectly to the places from your favourite books. Camera: Zenit ET (scanned from the print).
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1999 Scotland, Mainland of Shetland. Photo of a southern part of that island. The photo was taken with my old Russian SLR camera Zenith ET. After it was scanned I was playing a little with it in Photoshop, trying to get some nice colours. However the film was a little bit scratched and there was some dirt on the print so I decided to give it a bit of old style, BW coloured photo. After that attempts (with some additional scratches and dirt) it looks like a photo from pre or war time. The story of Norwegian resistance supported and supplied by British army via Shetland Islands using the small fishermen trawlers - called Shetland bus, was the first thing that I had on my mind. I have decided to use a name of the Islands I have found somewhere, and that sounds more Germanic (however not German), and I made a photo stylised on spy photo taken by a German spy during the war.
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1997 or 1998, Scotland, Orkney Islands. Megalitic stone circle “Stones of Steness”. The stones are part of a larger big megalithic complex of couple of other sites like megalithic portal tomb “Maes Howe”, stone circle “Ring Of Brodgar” and a few cairns and other less impressive archaeological sites. Camera: Zenit ET.
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