This building was the Royal Observatory back in the 18-hundreds. Isn't it a marvelous place to gaze at the stars from? It stands on top of Calton Hill, so you must get a wonderful view from there, not only of the stars, but of the city too. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to do a historic time lapse of Edinburgh from there? Just think if someone had taken one picture a day of the city during the last 200 years. We would be able to see the city grow, new buildings being built and the activity of the streets intensify as the number of inhabitants increase throughout the years. That would have been cool! With today's technology (cameras everywhere for surveillance purposes etc.), maybe someone will be able to do that to us in a hundred years or so. A pity I won't be able to stick around long enough to see it.
"I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees."
I know this building is on the top of a hill and not by a body of water, but somehow, it reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe's "the Fall of the House of Usher". It looks a bit like how I imagine that house would look like, a bit askew and crooked, with an ominous sky above it. That story, is one of the few pieces of literature that I actually enjoyed reading during my time at the university :).
What a beautiful structure, and great way to bring it to life with your processing skills.
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