Due to jetlag and a 5 hour time difference between Ottawa and Edinburgh, I was out for a post-breakfast walk around town at a time I’m usually still in bed.
my hotel is right in the centre of town so my walk took be past 2 key landmarks – parliament and the canal
I’m joining in with Sandie sharing my 5 favourite photos from the mass I took in 5 minutes at the Firth end of my river walk on the 5th. I really enjoyed taking lots of photos in all directions and then sifting through them to select my favourite 5 back on my computer.
It was foggy over the firth so Fife, on the other side, was hardly visible – providing a lovely soft background to the wild rose plants.
the overcast cloud and low sun made the city silhouette (end of the Crags and the buildings on Carlton Hill) stand out nicely too
plenty of dog walkers out too – I liked the contrast of the young black Labrador running and the older blonde one (partially hidden behind its person) plodding along)
the geese numbers have increased with an influx of canada geese – all grazing along the river bank
and then gentle rain started – and I gave into my more abstract eye
thanks to Sandie for her 5 in 5 meme
I’d vaguely heard of crowd funding but only investigated a few months ago and have since backed 11 of which 3 were not successful, and 2 are still seeking funding.
The idea is that someone puts up details of a project that they need help to fund and people pledge a set amount and the project only goes ahead if they reach the goal in the set time. They only charge your card once the project deadline is reached and the funding goal met. There are rewards for different funding levels – often a copy of the object being funded. So someone can raise thousands of dollars through lots of people backing them for under $25.
For instance I have this lovely broach as a reward for funding an Edinburgh based glass artist.
I’ve found some useful and different items that will be great gifts for my nephews in technology inventions, funky t-shirts and fantasy and game based creations.
I’ve only used the kickstarter site. I find it rather overwhelming trying to look at everything so I tend to choose just one category to browse each time I visit, for instance local people or small projects or technology or popular.
I’ve been thinking of asking if anyone else has participated and was finally spurred to do so when I saw a project which seeks to give disposable cameras to people in Uganda (where many people have never owned a photo) and have the photos developed and record the stories of why they took the photos – sounds like the kind of project memorykeepers might like. The project is called cageless birds.
and another I’m backing may be of interest to those of you who have a family member with dyslexia or other reading issues – “a beautiful design led experience of what it feels like to struggle with reading”
Has anyone else crowd funded? which sites do you use?
Looking out across the city from my parent’s 5th floor flat we could see plenty of fireworks and 5 bonfires along the beach. Hard to photograph but I think these give a feeling of the spectacle
