CIRCUMGRAPHING THE SCOTTISH COAST: Following the piper into the mysts. (A gallery in progress, 15 images)

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These images are in the order they were taken to provide a journalistic flow to the viewer's experience.

"THE PASTORAL REFUGE OF BALGONIE CASTLE," 
FIFE, SCOTLAND

"IN GRIM STAINED DEFIANCE THE SCARRED BATTLE FRAGMENT STOOD OUT AGAINST ITS MOST ELEMENTAL AND FROMIDABLE ENEMY," 
RED CASTLE, ANGUS, SCOTLAND 

"WITHIN THE SANCTUM OF NOBLE WEALTH 
LONG AFTER THE PRIDE HAS VANISHED," 
CASTLE SLAIN, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"THE NORTH SEA POURED OVER THE DETAILS LIKE A NEWS JUNKY LOOKING FOR A JUICY SCANDAL ON THE PAGES OF THE PRESS AND JOURNAL," 
BULLERS OF BUCHAN, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"A CEASELESS BORDER FRAY BETWEEN THE SANDSTONE COAST AND THE NORTH SEA," 
BULLERS OF BUCHAN, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"ASCENT INTO THE ANCIENT FORTRESS 
OF PSYCOMAGNETIC POWERS," 
CASTLE DUNNOTTAR, "ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND 

"THE EMERALD BOUDOIR," 
CASTLE DUNNOTTAR, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"A SPIRIT OF FREEDOM CIRCLES ABOVE 
THE QUARTERS OF THE LADIES IN WAITING 
WHO COULD WAIT NO LONGER." 
CASTLE DUNNOTTAR, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"AFTER SEEING THE DUNGEON WHERE HENRY VIII HELD PRESBYTERIANS WITHOUT SANITATION, 
MANY GUESTS FIND OUR UPPER OPEN AIR SPA 
A RELAXING PLUS 
TO THEIR CASTLE DUNNOTTAR EXPERIENCE,"
 ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"THE UPPER EAST ROOMS SEEMED BEST SUITED TO AFICIONADOS OF SKY, WIND, SURF, 
AND OF COURSE, NUDE SUNBATHING," 
CASTLE DUNNOTTAR, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND

"PRISONER TO THE SWEEP OF AGES," 
CASTLE SINCLARE GIRNIGOE," 
CAITHNESS, SCOTLAND

"SEAGATE FOR TRADE OF TIDES," 
CASTLE SINCLARE GIRNIGOE.  
CAITHNESS, SCOTLAND

"STAIRCASE BEYOND THE WARRANTY OF STEPS," 
CASTLE SINCLARE GIRNIGOE, 
CAITHNESS, SCOTLAND

"ONE RESIDENT DREAM OF 
THE FIRST PROVINCIAL LORDS, 
SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN UP, 
OUT OF THE CLIFF ROCK 
LIKE BONE SPURS 
OF ANCIENT WILL," 
CASTLE SINCLARE GIRNIGOE, 
CAITHNESS, SCOTLAND

"ABOVE THE CACOPHONY 
OF THE ORCHY RIVER CASCADE," 
ARGYLE AND BUTE, SCOTLAND