The Fringe Festival is over in Edinburgh, but street performances and tourist traffic continues. After another visit to Parliament, I strolled around the Scottish National Museum, and explored the grounds of Edinburgh castle with a trusty Edinburgher guide. I’ll be heading to the same areas tomorrow for some vox pops, and am working on editing my interview with David McCrone, from the University of Edinburgh. In the meantime, here are some favorite pictures I’ve snapped so from the last days of the Fringe. More to come later.
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- A photo from the Camera Obscura made 3D when looking through both lenses.
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- Another visual trick at the Camera Obscura. The whole level was dedicated to illusions like this.
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- If you’ve been to Edinburgh, you’d recognize the tattooed and pierced woman on display on High Street.
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- A statue of philosopher David Hume. Passers-by touch his big toe for some transferred wisdom.
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- A carved wooden angel in St. Giles Cathedral Thistle Chapel.
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- The stone ceiling of the Thistle Chapel inside St. Giles Cathedral.
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- One last try for some cash: performers show off for free in hopes of big tips in the hat. The performer alleged this was the tallest unicycle in Europe.
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- Quite the performer.
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- The Buffalo Skinners perform on the Royal Mile on the last day of the Fringe, selling CDs and t-shirts out of a nearby trunk.
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- A master puppeteer seduces the crowd on the last day of the Fringe Festival
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- Master juggler keeps everything in the air as the crowd looks on.
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- The first fire performance I saw — he also managed to juggle a chainsaw.
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- David Hume looks on at the Fringe Festivities on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. St. Giles Cathedral in the background.
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- The Tardis lands in Edinburgh.
