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Dunkeld Cathedral Sees Record Queue as Visitors Rush to Take Photo ‘With Visible Shadows’

Visitors 'never seen the place lit from above'.

Dunkeld Cathedral, lit by actual sun.

Dunkeld Cathedral, lit by actual sun. Photo: Diliff, “Dunkeld Cathedral Exterior, Dunkeld, UK - Diliff”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

DUNKELD — Visitors queued at Dunkeld Cathedral during Thursday’s bright spells to take what one called “the rarest photo in Scotland: the cathedral with shadows”.

“Usually it’s grey on grey,” said a photographer. “Today it had depth. Edges. I nearly fainted.”

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