Shimmering in light

“I first saw the Tay Road Bridge in the middle of a night in the autumn/winter of 1966,” emails Dr Richard Bowie, a retired consultant anaesthetist of Kirkcaldy.

“Driving from a maternity emergency at Craigtoun Hospital in St Andrews to another at Netherlea in Newport, I suddenly came upon the bridge spanning the ‘silvery Tay’ whose waters were shimmering in the light of a near full moon.

“It brought to mind Sir Walter Scott’s advice in his Lay of the Last Minstrel to ‘view fair Melrose aright , go visit it by the pale moonlight’. The latter was more romantic but the former equally impressive in a modern era.”

“I was out cycling in Fife and spotted this view from a path near Moonzie,” says Eric Niven of Dundee. “I must go back for another look soon.”