The Little Edinburgh Project 23 - Cramond Island

The Little Edinburgh Project

This is Little Edinburgh, it is a series of shots I have taken around the city of Edinburgh in Scotland over the years. It is called Little Edinburgh because the focus of the project is to take photos in a way as to show the city in miniature using the tilt-shift effect. Edinburgh is an international cosmopolitan city but still somehow has a small town feel to it. I cannot walk down the street without recognising someone I know. So with that in mind it felt appropriate to create a vision of Edinburgh that makes it look very small, almost like a toy town.

Cramond Island

Cramond Island is a tidal Island on the outskirts of Edinburgh. At low tide (as in this picture) you can reach the island on foot. The line you can see from the edge of the island extending to the left of the frame is a series of concrete pylons that were built during WWII as an anti-boat boom. Basically its like road spikes for cars, but for boats. It blocked navigation of boats between the coast and the island forcing them further into the estuary and past gun positions that were placed on the island as a defence against gunboats the Germans may send on strafing runs.

The tide changes very quickly here so although when the tide goes out it goes out for over a mile from the shore, it returns very quickly and has on many occasion caught people out who either got stuck on the island or ended up in the water walking back. Its quite something as once the tide comes in the water level is over 6ft!

Aside from all that, its also a popular spot to go camping overnight. I suppose you'd have to if you got caught on the island at high tide!

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WOW thats another awesome one in this series

BTW I was looking on google maps to find the Fire station and it shows that the building is all covered and being renovated, I am not sure if its still ongoing but will swing by sometime and check it out

Oh that is awesome. Thank you for checking that out. I've even gotten my GF and her brother in law (who is also coming) excited about going to see it! :)

@fiftysixnorth Well I even have an update for you the renovation has just finished, there was a Cherry Picker not he street in front of it, which blocked the view for me this morning, but I will have to go back and try again sometime

Apparently the scaffolding and such was just taken down within the last couple of weeks according to one worker there

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Oh wow! Thanks for going all the way out there to find out! That is excellent news. It will definitely make up for the fact that the singapore merlion was completely obscured by scaffolding while we were there in January.
I really appreciate this.. thanks so much for checking @tattoodjay :)

@fiftysixnorth No Worries I was curious to see it myself, and I messed up a setting for the shots there was about 10 blocks away before I noticed LOL so I have to go back

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lol! I hate it when that happens!

@fiftysixnorth Ohh yeah, I got sdome shots that may be useable but I know they could be better :)

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I bet they're great.. you're just being humble ;)

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