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McKenzie St.
Douglas St 2
Russell Place
This week’s street name I chose because of the nice shadows cast by the bare trees across the wall.
Asquith St
Unusual
Two unusual things happening at once – someone going for a dip in the Forth on Kirkcaldy beach, and a hovercraft coming into land on Seafield beach.
This I Just Don’t Get
This strangely attired pair were performing on the High Street in Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival last year.
Strangely this particular picture got a huge number of hits (well for me) in a very short time on flickr.
East Albert Road
This weeks street is close to my favourite and very probably the one that laid the seed for the whole project.
A few years back I was doing a lot of walking – on the dole and very broke – and found myself on East Albert Road, except the sign was subtly damaged and I was convinced it was called Last Albert Road. Which instantly became my favourite street name ever, until I was corrected.
Anyway I reckon that’s what got me interested in the ceramic street signs in the first place.
Montgomery St 2
The second in our weekly series of Kirkcaldy’s ceramic street signs.
This one’s an oddity, just displaying Montgomery – the Street is missing for some reason.
Blue Tit, Ravenscraig Park
A second bird in a row.
This blue tit was high up in a tree and I captured it with my sigma 300mm zoom.
The attitude of the bird is just perfect.
If you click on the picture it will take you flickr, where you will be able to see it at it’s biggest size and you can see just how crisp and detailed the bird is in the shot.
Soar
Kirkcaldy Old Kirk & Kirk Wynd
There has been a church on the site of the Old Kirk since circa 1240.
This photo shows the tiny remaining medieval section of Kirkcaldy, just off of Kirkcaldy’s High Street.
It’s totally unrepresentative of what the town really looks like, but still it is central to the town’s history.
From Dysart Harbour To The Forth And The Sea
Another image from the lost blog entries.
I did a tidy up of this – rotation to straighten the horizon, sharpening and curves – and gave a framed A4 print as a Christmas gift.
It’s a nice image in this version – it’s really lovely with those simple adjustments
Park Place
First of a new series.
My home town, Kirkcaldy, used to be renowned for it’s pottery in the past, and one remnant of that long extinct industry is the continuing existence in older parts of the town of ceramic street name signs.
My intention is, if possible, to take a complete record of these remaining street signs.
I’m particularly fascinated by the typeface used and would love to know more about it.
