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December 13, 2024

In the spotlight

4.0 km / 2.5 miles 🚶

Durbuy 🇧🇪

Durbuy is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.

The story

Just a quick stroll through cold, sunny Durbuy on this Friday the 13th, nearly six years since my last visit – this time with the mighty manual 35mm Mitakon, offering a nifty fifty-equivalent field of view. I should have brought a wider lens, as the Mitakon feels a bit too compressed.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

Camera lens:
Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 II

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Kodachrome 64

The pictures

August 3, 2019

In the spotlight

🚶

Namur 🇧🇪

Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

The pictures

August 17, 2017 (day 12)

Old Town, Edinburgh Vaults, Edinburgh 🇬🇧

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian, it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland’s second-most populous city and the seventh-most populous city in the United Kingdom.

The Edinburgh Vaults or South Bridge Vaults are a series of chambers formed in the nineteen arches of the South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, was part of the South Bridge Act 1785 and was completed in 1788. For around 30 years, the vaults were used to house taverns, workshops for cobblers and other tradesmen, as well as storage space for said merchants.

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-T20
Samsung Galaxy S7

St Peter’s Church, Chillingham 🇬🇧

Tucked into a wooded setting beside the entrance to Chillingham Castle stands the attractive Norman church of St Peter. Though the church was begun in the 12th century, very little remains of the earliest building and much of what we see today dates to the 15th century.

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T20

August 16, 2017 (day 11)

Ardoe House Hotel, Aberdeen 🇬🇧

Suicide, murder and betrayal is a very real part of the hotel’s past and the cause for its incredible amount of paranormal activity.

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T20

Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven 🇬🇧

Situated near Stonehaven, this 14th century coastal castle is said to be home to several frequently sighted ghosts. The most common of which is the spirit of a young girl wearing a plaid dress spotted in the brewery. The guardroom is said to be haunted by a Nordic-looking man, who paces around the room.

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-T20
Samsung Galaxy S7

Edzell Castle, Brechin 🇬🇧

The castle is said to be haunted by a ‘White Lady’, reputedly the spirit of Catherine Campbell, second wife of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford.

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T20

August 8, 2017 (day 3)

On the road 🇬🇧

Camera:
Samsung Galaxy S7

The Hellfire Caves, High Wycombe 🇬🇧

The Hellfire Caves of West Wycombe are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns in Buckinghamshire, England, made famous by their sordid past. They are named after the infamous Hellfire Club, made up of high-ranking members of society, noblemen, and politicians, who are believed to have engaged in pagan rituals, orgies, and black magic deep within the subterranean chambers beneath West Wycombe.

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-T20
Samsung Galaxy S7

Dashwood Mausoleum, High Wycombe 🇬🇧

Prominently sitting atop a hill in West Wycombe, is an unusually shaped building called the Dashwood Mausoleum. This open-top, hexagonal structure houses the remains of the Dashwood family members, a prominent family related to Sir Francis Dashwood, who was the 11th Baron le Despencer. Not only was Sir Francis Dashwood a Baron, but he also was a politician, Chancellor of Exchequer between 1762 and 1763, and most famously, the founder of the infamous Hellfire Club.

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T20

Longleat Estate, Warminster 🇬🇧

Longleat is a landscape park covering around 505 hectares, with 19th and 20th century formal gardens of 2.5 hectares. The site is now primarily known as the safari park introduced by the Marquess of Bath in 1964.

Cameras:
Fujifilm X-T20
Samsung Galaxy S7

Isle of Portland 🇬🇧

The Isle of Portland is a tied island, 6 kilometres long by 2.7 kilometres wide, in the English Channel. The southern tip, Portland Bill lies 8 kilometres south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A barrier beach called Chesil Beach joins it to the mainland.

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T20

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