Berwick upon Tweed

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You expected sanity - HERE....

IanS

[Ithoriel]

You expected sanity - HERE....

IanS

But .... but .... at this time of year .... what about the sanity clause?

[DanJ]

I think the "mental 'Elf" of this forum just dropped another notch

[Leman]

Someone sack him!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Phil - get their COATS NOW....

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Stop it, you're sleighing me!

[Leman]

Ho Ho Ho!

[paulr]

So I go to interesting, out of the way places, photograph them as well as I'm able, open a photobucket account, upload the photos, start a new thread, link the pictures to the Pendraken Forum hoping to provide some measure of interest and the response is....

It is a good photograph of the castle and the silhouette works well. The breaking wave provides good foreground interest and adds to the mood

I would probably crop tighter on the right so the viewers eye doesn't flow down hill and out of the image.

You could also consider cropping on the left to remove fence line on the ridge line, currently it is an intrusion and once seen can be distracting

Perhaps increasing the contrast would emphasise the silhouette

Is that more the response you were hoping for?

The earlier fortification photos were also interesting 

[Leman]

However, cropping the fence line will lose some of the impressive wave action.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I think it works brilliantly just as it is.

[jchaos79]

Looking the picture, is what should feel a Danese viking in his boat after being rading the castle all night in the first lights in the morning

[DanJ]

It is a good photograph of the castle and the silhouette works well. The breaking wave provides good foreground interest and adds to the mood

I would probably crop tighter on the right so the viewers eye doesn't flow down hill and out of the image.

You could also consider cropping on the left to remove fence line on the ridge line, currently it is an intrusion and once seen can be distracting

Perhaps increasing the contrast would emphasise the silhouette

At last, creative critisism. 

I've already cropped quite a bit in from the right of the original picture but left it like this to ephasise the castle being on a hill.  The contrast has also been tweeked a bit but I found that much more than this and the spray was being lost, but that might be my hamfistedness with photoshop (and I don't have a full version).  On the day the wind was quite strong and blowing from the land so as the waves broke the wind was ripping the tops off them as spreay.

[paulr]

Glad to be of service

[Westmarcher]

Personally, I would have kept the topless blonde sunbathing on the beach in the shot. But that's just me.

[btw, to clarify, Flodden Field is in Northumberland and the projections from the walls are bastions (ravelins are detached triangular fortifications or outworks located in front of the curtain walls and bastions of a fortress)]

[DanJ]

Flodden Field is in Northumberland

I stand corrected, I thought it was just over the border.

Here's a couple of other border strong holds

Smailholm Tower...





And Hemitage, both in the care of Historic Scotland so I guess they are over the border.