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    Arrow My first report - Westhall Castle - Aberdeenshire 15/03/2010

    Dan signing in for his first report

    Shot in RAW
    Olympus E-510,
    14-42mm f/3.5-5.6
    35mm f/3.5 macro (1:1)
    OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.8

    Didn't take tripod with me, image stabilisation seems to take care of most shots.

    Lightroom, export to Photoshop CS4 (I started with some images but gave up in the end!)

    Today Alir147 and I visited the site of Westhall Castle/House in rural Aberdeenshire. The house has been empty since 1993 (well, that's how old the newspaper stuffed up some chimneys was).

    Ali told me that all the broken windows were damaged very recently. We had a look around the exterior and entered the building.

    We noticed straight away a very pungent and "dodgy" smell of chemicals, upon closer inspection it seems that some one (neds maybe...?) had been opening and smashing bottles of chemicals that had been lying in a cupboard for God knows how long.

    There was a lot of water damage, this will get worse with the windows being broken and the typical Scottish rain + wind entering the building horizontally! A lot of the floorboards were starting to crumble, had to watch footing at times.

    Here are some pics.





























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    Default Re: My first report - Westhall Castle - Aberdeenshire 15/03/2010

    Anyway guys I have sort of refined the selection and put them on Flickr.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/danield...817721/detail/

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