Charlotte Maddix
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I like to walk all around Edinburgh, and this picture was taken in the Pentlands during the Edinburgh festival, when I needed to escape the madding crowds. I walk for my physical and mental health and in my spare time I like to paint landscapes. The Pentlands scenery gives me inspiration, as it has done for famous artists including Walter Scott, Wilfred Owen, Allan Ramsay and Robert Louis Stevenson since Neolithic times.
A regular dog walking haunt for countless regulars, including us and our wee Westie, Bonnie. Always brings back memories of Bonnie's predecessor, Lucy who enjoyed the walks, meeting the other dogs, and an occasional titbit at the Black Watch café.
Beyond its day job of literally bringing communities together, a good bridge can become an icon, and few more so than this bridge – an instantly recognisable symbol of Scotland, and one of the first views you get when you fly into Edinburgh. You know you’re home when you see it.
Walking home from the Edinburgh office, the rectangular cobblestones and evening light give my local high street a distinctive feel - and a sense of the past too: it could be any time in the past couple of hundred years (ignoring the Starbucks on the corner).
