Last week, whilst down in Kirkcaldy doing a wee bit of shopping, I stopped off and took these two photographs of Kirkcaldy Harbour. This once thriving port is now home to one or two fishing boats, and a few pleasure boats. The inner harbour is still used by small merchant vessels collecting flour for export from a local mill (just visible to the left of the railings in the first photo). Unfortunately, the old warehouses and harbour buildings surrounding Kirkcaldy harbour have now been replaced with modern style flats.
Love how the iron railing in the second photo seems to frame individual scenes within the whole picture.
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Thanks Jean 🙂 The railing certainly helped create a much more interesting photo.
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Love me some good B&W. Great shots, Andy!!
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Thanks Julie 🙂 Glad you like the photos.
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Exquisite
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Thank you 🙂
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I really like the dynamic lines in the first photo, the way the eye is led along the water and is then disrupted by that rusty fencing. Great framing in the second shot too.
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Thanks Laura 🙂 The fence certainly makes the two photographs far more interesting, without it the shots would have been quite flat and fairly boring.
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What a great image, Andy! That banged-up fence leads the eye to what lies beyond.
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Thanks Lori 🙂 I was pleased at how well the photos worked, the harbour itself is very UNphotogenic!
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Nice B&W conversions… great detail!
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Thank’s Denise 🙂
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I think every waterway in the UK has flats like that alongside it now!
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I think you’re probably right Gilly, it’s such a shame. I’m all for building new housing, but not at the expense of ruining some fairly picturesque localities. On the other side of the flats are some of the oldest buildings in Kirkcaldy, built in the 1600s, which would have looked fantastic overlooking the harbour.
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Love the way you’ve practically fenced off the new builds with the rusty old railings 🙂 Makes a great storytelling composition!
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Thanks Sarah 🙂 The railings certainly helped the photographs, the photos would be quite boring without them.
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And yet a photo of just railings in any other context could be pretty boring too! I think it’s the way the composition tells the story 🙂
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Thanks Sarah 🙂 All I know is that it felt right to take those photos from that angle 🙂
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That’s called the artistic eye 🙂
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🙂
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Nicely done
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Thanks Rajiv 🙂
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Excellent black and white effect – it just so adds to the atmosphere!
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Thanks Amanda, I’m glad you like them 🙂
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Good photos. It makes me want to see it in person.
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Thanks Gayle 🙂 Hopefully one day you’ll be over in Scotland on your bike and will be able to see some of our wonderful Scottish scenery 🙂
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Good grief these are fabulous!
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Thank you Osyth 🙂 Glad you like them!
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I love the part you picked to capture, very interesting and unique
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Thanks Lynz, I was trying to take a more unusual photo of the harbour, glad you liked them 🙂
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I really did
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It is amazing how black and white can give you the emotion of the photo. Fabulous shots. Thanks
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Thanks Sherrill 🙂 You’re right about black & white often adds emotion and atmosphere to a photo.
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Your editing is much kinder to the skyline. I like the effect in the first. Gilly was saying you’d talked about apartments ruining waterfronts. 🙂
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Thanks Jo 🙂
Unfortunately it seems to be a huge problem in Scotland, the planning regulations seem to be pretty dire up here. Modern houses and flats are often put up in places which should be preserved as they were to protect the heritage of the area 😦
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I had remarked to Gilly that Durham is one of the best preserved city centres I know. There’s a hotel and a small shopping complex but most of the riverbank is quite natural.
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I’ve never been to Durham Jo, but from what you’ve just said, I will now definitely make the effort to go down there, it sounds like a wonderful city! 🙂
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Wow! Amazing shots Andy and they look just great in B&W! A pity about the new buildings that pop up everywhere, especially if they could have renovated the older buildings. The older architecture was so much more interesting and stronger. Thanks for sharing the beauty around you. 😀
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Thanks Sophia 🙂 I totally agree with you about the older architecture being far more interesting, and far more in keeping with the rest of the area around the harbour!
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I just read a Val McDermid mystery set around Kirkaldy; nice to see what it looks like. Love the B&W.
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I shall have to have a read of that, I hadn’t heard of Val McDermid till now, but I see she grew up in Kirkcaldy 🙂
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Those flats look rather ugly, but the sky is beautiful and I enjoyed your photos, Andy. 🙂
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It’s one of my constant and only gripes about Scotland Sylvia, there appears to be virtually no planning regulations up here. There are lots of flats in many very picturesque localities, which in my opinion should new have been allowed to have been built!!!! But I’m glad you liked the overall look of the photos 🙂
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You made these images your own, Andy, with great composition, contrast, texture and detail.
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Thank you Jane 🙂 Glad you liked the black & white photos of the harbour
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I absolutely love both of these Andy – your compositions are spot on and the B&W really gives them a nostalgic feel. Well done indeed!
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Thank you very much Tina, glad you like them 🙂 You’re right about the B&W, the colour versions were quite boring in comparison.
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