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Doddie
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:40 pm |
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Location: Dunedin, Alba.
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For years i've wanted to have one and now i've finally uploaded one.
Because it's Scottish it might not be immediately obvious what you are seeing.
The St Andrews cross ought to be obvious (white cross on a blue background) but what is the rest?
The city scape is Edinburgh City centre looking from The Mound towards George IV bridge and the North British Hotel (renamed now as The Balmoral hotel).
The building/tower, top left of centre is the Scott Monument.
The unicorn, that's the national animal of Scotland.
The Latin and English at the top, that's the national motto of Scotland:
In Latin: Nemo me impune lacessit
Translated: No one provokes me with impunity
The original was sent to me by a very dear American friend about 20 years ago, how she was able to dig up all that and put it into a jpg still blows me away... e.g. at the time i didn't even know Scotland had a motto!
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sboots
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:00 pm |
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Very nice, Doddie.
_________________ stephen boots Microsoft MVP 2004 - 2020 "Life's always an adventure with computers!"
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Doddie
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:14 pm |
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sboots wrote: Very nice, Doddie. I love it, to fully appreciate it it needs to be seen full sized, it's getting stupidly late here now but if i remember tomorrow i'll upload it to Jays photo website.
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Doddie
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:50 pm |
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jaylach
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:55 pm |
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Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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The link works. Just so you know you can open the image in the gallery then item URL on the left to get a direct link to show the image directly. On a forum you would want the BBCode URL links, not the HTML links.
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Doddie
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:58 pm |
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Ah, thanks Jay, i don't use the gallery very often so please feel free to amend the link if you feel it necessary.
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jaylach
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:31 am |
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Doddie wrote: Ah, thanks Jay, i don't use the gallery very often so please feel free to amend the link if you feel it necessary. No need to change.
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JoanA
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:37 am |
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It's a nice looking Avatar and gives a very good description of Scotland, well done to your friend for her work. 
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