Abandoned Village

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Took a visit to Old Lawers Village yesterday, on the banks of Loch Tay.
As you can see the place has been abandoned for a long time and is known to have been occupied in the 15th Cenury so it's pretty old.

Loads of remains of buildings around over a reasonable area so took a wonder around and took piccys, did a bit of photoshopping to get some atmosphere!

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great stuff, there a few places in scotland liek that, some have more modern buildign that are still intact

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very atmospheric, a sort of haunting quality.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:11 pm

That 4th pic is superb, thought about making them into prints?

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next time you at them abandons placese chris..take some piccys for us Smile

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will do but its been years

Site Subscriber Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 318

Thanks for the complimens on the photos guys! - that 4th one was a very quick photoshop to give it some atmosphere could make it better if i spent more time - but I'm more of a film man myself.

Do quite a bit of photography (as a hobby) - was well pissed off as my I forgot to put new batterys in my good old 35mm SLR before we went up Evil or Very Mad

so these were taken with my mates digital camera.
Will be going back with mine to take some black and whites at some point as well as searching out some more places, not done much photography in recent years so my new years resolution was to get back into it this year - was thinking of setting up a website and trying to sell some prints at some point.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:09 pm

That Black and white photo looks like it could be from the cover of an Ian Rankin novel!

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hmmm - it does a bit, maybe I should send it to him!

ot take it round - he only lives half a mile away Laughing

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:16 pm

Do it! you never know! He is a superb author I have read all but two of his books. I feel like I know all the pubs in Edinburgh, but I have never been to Scotland! Very Happy

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You never know do you?

I love his books as well, especially as I know the places he's talking about, St. Leonards Police station is just up the road from me, been to the Oxford Bar a few times, in one of the older books Rebus goes into the Petrol Station I used to work in while I was a student!
They are very well researched.

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:22 pm

I have read them over and over, Have to say would like to come up and do the Rebus tour sometime!

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ok - was bored tonight so spent a bit more time messing about in photoshop, eventually decided on this - I'm fairly pleased even though I say it myself Laughing

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:58 pm

Tis a very good pic!