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Strathisla Distillery (44)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1278 W: 157 N: 1300]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (6917) | What else can you do in beautiful Scotland besides enjoying nature? You can go visited a distillery. This is the second one we visted and again we did this on a early morning. Nothing better than a good glass of whisky just after breakfast.
The Strathisla distillery was founded by George Taylor and Alexander Milne under the name of Milltown Distillery in 1786.
The distillery was acquired in 1828 by William Lonmore, after having been the property of McDonalds, Ingram & Co.
A fire destroyed it in 1879.
Between 1870 and 1890, the distillery was temporarily called Strathisla, but it has been renamed Milton.
Its definitive "Strathisla" name dates from 1949, when it was taken over by James Barclay, from the Chivas Brothers group, which in 1949 was part of Seagrams, owned by Sam Bronfman.
Chivas Brothers came into being in 1858 as a provisions shop in King Street, Aberdeen, founded by brothers James and John Chivas from Overtown of Dudwick in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.
The distillery doubled its production capacity in 1965.
Strathisla is one of the most picturesque distilleries from Scotland.
On 15 June 1993, an unexpected visitor arrived from Louisville, Kentucky: a black and white cat who fell asleep between some bourbon casks traveling to Scotland. When the container was opened 4 weeks later, the cat came out, weaken by hunger and drunken by the hints of bourbon in the container. People at the distillery adopted it after the legal quarantine, and named it Dizzy. The cat got the job of mice hunter.
The distilleries from "The Chivas and Glenlivet Group", belonging to Seagram were acquired by the French group "Pernod-Ricard" on 19 December 2001.
The main part of the single malt is used in the blends Chivas Regal and Royal Salute.
The thing is that we only visited one distillery per day, but many other touritst folled the Speyside distillery tour and visited around four a day. I curious to how those people were still able to drive back home.
I know you will mention the odd angle of the Chimney. The low POV and the odd angle of my sensor to the horizon caused the higher chimney to cruve. The wide angle of the lens helped out as well. No skew option will help, since it will cause the other buildings to bend in the other direction.
This is a merge of two exposures created by two different RAW conversion. One was the original, the other was adjusted for the sky. I am sure that you can still see some evidence in the trees.
Sorry, a bit short of time...field hockey season started again, which means training of friday.
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After posting note. I really like the WS Hans did on my photo. I hope he will explain it to how he did it. This ofcourse makes my POV and lens to horizon story out of order.
I also noticed I missed a spot in merging the two exposure. I really hate when that happens. |
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