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Photograph taken in Scotland / Oban with the canon eos 5D Mark II + canon 16-35 L Mark II + tripod manfrotto 190 XPROB.Other images from this trip in Scotland :
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You've captured the scenery wonderfully, the light falls so that it gives an eery feel to it. I can almost hear the druids chant.
When I saw it first, I almost thought it were computer made when I looked at the wall closest.
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Words cannot describe the beauty brought forth in this photo
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McCaig's Tower is a prominent folly on the hillside (called Battery Hill) overlooking Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on top).
The structure was commissioned, at a cost of £5,000 sterling (£500,000 at 2006 prices using GDP deflator), by the wealthy, philanthropic banker (North of Scotland Bank), John Stuart McCaig.
John Stuart McCaig was his own architect. The tower was erected between 1897 and his death, aged 78 from Angina Pectoris, on 29 June 1902 at John Square House, Oban, Argyll.
McCaig's intention was to provide a lasting monument to his family, and provide work for the local stonemasons during the winter months. McCaig was an admirer of Roman and Greek architecture, and had planned for an elaborate structure, based on the Colosseum in Rome. His plans allowed for a museum and art gallery with a central tower to be incorporated. Inside the central tower he planned to commission statues of himself, his siblings and their parents. His death brought an end to construction with only the outer walls completed.
It looks as ancient as the Druids, but it isn't. It's a (comparatively) new structure. But striking nonetheless.
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i knew but it was just for the feeling
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Ah.. i recognise this. i have been here... McCaig's Folly i think it's called... this is striking!
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I love my Scotland, I dooooo
This whole set of photos is really showing off how beautiful it can be (:
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Wow!! the bluiding is amazing and the landscape is beauitful! wonderful photograph
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I love this, just like I love all of your photographs, but I really want to see some color in it though. Some blue with the gray in the sky or more green in the grass... I'm not sure. Composition is fabulous, it brings my eye through the entire image, and the clouds are perfectly ominous. Fabulous!
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This is so beautiful. Thanks for posting.
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beautiful! i wish i could get out of this country to take amazing shots.
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