Rooms for Ghosts Photo

Photographer’s Note

Old Town Edinburgh is today a top rated tourist attraction and is being much advertised by its ghosts, ghouls, dungeons and other gothic elements. Its turbulent history is full of tales of horror and terror which mainly compirse graveyard diggers, body snatchers, pirates, witches and witchcraft, plague, burnings on the stake, beheadings, hangings, gore, torment and torture of every kind and blood and blood and blood.
And those buildings were witnesses to all those terrible days, and they are now telling all these stories with witty humor and mockery (what kinda' grandfathers we had!). Here i have a limited place to write down these stories which most of them are fun to hear, so you should better go and check some books of history and paranormalities about Scotland, Edinburgh in particular.

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Eski Edinburg şehrinin burada görülen duvarları, günümüzde turistlere anlatılan bir çok hayaletli hikayeye tanıklık ve ev sahipliği yapmış. O kadar kanlı bir tarihleri var ki, kendileri bile buna şaşıyor. Mezar hırsızları, yer altı şehirleri, zindanlar, korsanlar, cadılar, kazıkta yakmalar, ipte sallandırmalar, kafa kesmeler, cinayetler, veba salgınları, hortlaklar, hayaletler ve akla hayale sığmayacak bilimum işkence ve öldürme şekilleri ile dolu, aslında yaşanması berbat olacak ama dinlemesi eğlenceli hikayeler bunlar. Onlar da insanın doğasındaki bu dehşet merakını çok başarılı bir şekilde kullanıp turizmi her daim canlı tutmayı biliyor.

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burGu (4548) 2009-09-17 11:02

Aaa neden 18-55 kullandın??? Madem lens değiştirmeye üşenmedim ve 55'te çektin, 50 mm'yi kullanmalıydın, sonuç kesinlikle daha keskin, daha kontrastlı ve gotik olurdu... Bunu büyük birşeyden mi kropladın, yoksa benim ekranın ömrü sonunda doldu da alt tarafları piksel piksel görüyorum... Yoksa benim gözlerim mi bozuldu??
Yoldan geldiğim ilk gün, bütün hayranlığım ve heyecanımla çekeceğim fotoğraflardan işte bu... Ne diyeyim, ayağına sağlık :)

pajaran (4000) 2009-09-17 11:04

Pozdrav sa balkana iz Srbije.
Sravicno ...
Arhitektura koja ostavlja utisak zahvaljujuci ovoj dobroj fotografiji, izrazitih boja i ostrinom snimka.
Uspesan dan, Paja.

InasiaJones (20705) 2009-09-17 11:24

Hi Deniz,

I'm not usually fond of these kind of touristic tours, but I did get into the same one as you in Edinburgh, where at the end, there was a creepy woman screaming from her appartment window, scaring the living daylights out of us. Did you get the same conclusion???

Well I like these rows of old buildings very much, with their distinctive architecture. Going for a close-up shot, excluding the sky makes them seem more crammed.

They are almost gloomy by themselves.

Cheers!

Andre

cemsultan (4604) 2009-09-17 11:31

Merhaba Deniz

İlginç notla birleşince korku filmlerinden çıkma hayalet şehir gibi görünüyor insanın gözüne,bakışaçısı,kadraj ve sinemaskop çerçeve hayalet şehir etkisini arttırıyor

Selamlar

Traczewska (7279) 2009-09-17 11:43

We've made out towns of stone. Green is hardly visible as needless luxury..
Your shot shows the horror of how distant to the Nature.. one colorful wall breaks slightly the grey everywhere but.. can it heal our great mood in the morning? Hold tight in the evening?? No wonder only ghosts want to live there.. hmm..:)

Nevertheless it would be really nice to visit Edinburgh..
This year NY, SF and LA, but next Istanbul and Edinburgh.. Another reson to live:) one day I'll ask you Deniz for Scottish travel guidelines? :)

with regards, agn

xavshot (63137) 2009-09-17 12:35

Bonsoir Deniz
tu as sorti ici une très belle image; La succession de toutes ces façades est très graphique. Belle unité dans les teintes avec la touche de couleurs qui arrivent par le bas gauche de l'image. Bravo.
Xavier

Glint (3076) 2009-09-17 12:40

Hello Deniz,
I like this one! you have packed so much of the atmosphere of these old buildings into one frame. I especially like all those chimnneys top left.I would have liked to meet up with you in Ediburgh but unfortunately I have a job to go to in my home town....wouldn't it be good if we didn't have to earn a living?!
Bev

jasmis (51047) 2009-09-17 22:25

This is thrilling view, no doubt. I'm sure I won't live in this town.
Regards.

veyselk (3831) 2009-09-17 23:44

aslında bu evlerin üstüne karanlık bulutlar çok yakışırdı, muhtemelende öyledir :D bu zamanda orada günlük güneşlik hava bulmak imkansız gibi bişey... bu iç ürpertici evlerinde üstünde o bulutları hayal ediyorumda tam dehşet senaryolarına uygun bi mekan olurdu, karın deşen jack'in dönüşü falan :p
ellerine sağlık

amazon (10881) 2009-09-18 8:56

sekercim,
neden hobbit köyünün az ilerisindeki hobbit metropolünü hatirlatti bana bu kare bilmem ama ziyadesi ile begendim,
imza;abbas yolcu,

barrufeto_77 (25945) 2009-09-18 10:45

Merhaba Denniz.

When I was there I was amazed too by this architecture....so I really like your picture.

My compliments!

tomescuc (2837) 2009-09-19 0:02

superb really, for all the reasons mentioned, but I must tell you, the Hunderwtwasser like mural patch is the proverbial cherry ...
CT

bantonbuju (48796) 2009-09-19 0:06

holly shyyyyt!

i thought that this type of ghettos exist only in eastern part of europe... i was wrong!...

a nightmare, to be a part of that society...

best, j.

bostankorkulugu (34024) 2009-09-19 0:11

köşedeki o renkli duvarı biraz distracting buldum... ve hatta hayaletli gerilim dolu thrilling havasını da bozuyor karenin... edinburg en görmek istediğim şehirlerden biri... "kasvet"e bayılırım...

isabela_sor (42517) 2009-09-19 10:46 [Comment]

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AyseGurel (536) 2009-09-20 11:24

kale tamam;camera obsurca tamam;st.giles tamam ;sira da digerleri var(yarin icin)..bu gece ghost tura katiliyorum...bu arada Londra'yi birakip bir sureligine buraya tasinayim bence ben...birde I wish I was a good photoghrapher...hele boyle bir yerde...

note: kaldigim hostel city centerde heryere yuruyerek gidebiliyorum ve hava yaz gibi...

Edinbraaadan selamlar
Ayse

Silvio1953 (42957) 2009-09-20 12:23

Ciao Deniz, fantastic composition with superb graphic, very well done, ciao Silvio

atha2pan (3547) 2009-09-21 12:04

Good that taste differs.
I like the UK in general terms, but I do not like this architecture at all.
Maybe I am not neutral - but I think the majority of the people outside the world (I speak about 99%) is so easy to manipulate and to determine, that they HAVE TO like this "top rated tourist attraction" and to say yes, this is so nice.

I remember one typical situation in Barcelona. Whilst we were exploring this wonderful town, we listened to some in this case Germans talking about the town. In short terms thay said, that the town is not beautiful, to narrow streets, few green areas, unlike German towns. Then I asked them, hey, where are you from and the told me: From Munich, SORRY dear Munich inhabitants, but do you really think that Munich is comparable to Barcelona???? FOR SURE NOT. Barcelona is 1000000000000000000000000000000 times better in every sense.
What I want to say:

I personally do not belong the those 99% and therefore, I do not like this ugly architecture, no art-nouveau colors, no balconies... Never ever. But, the photo of yours is fabulous, it shows the ugliness as best as possible.

Hugs Deno mou.

clio (23161) 2009-09-22 14:48

Bonjour Deniz,
Effectively, the show of these grey buildings is sad to frighten! But what a graphics!
And then, there is this small part of optimism with the contrast of this wall with the mosaic of color.
An excellent centring, congratulations!
Diane

bisok (290) 2009-09-23 22:35

This is a big piece of great presentation, I think.

... and people leave there, and probably they are happy, they love, they dream ...

Apart from that, I prefer living far away from such places :-)

Regards
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polter (6172) 2009-09-30 14:10

Really, one can easily believe in ghosts being inhabitants of the town.
Impressive.
And I like very much the left corner with a touch greenery and colours.
Greetings T.