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Street Art

Photography in Streets

In recent year’s I’ve just thought of street art as 3D murals on the sides of buildings but SandyL’s Friendly Friday Challenge reminded me there are many different types of art around in our streets. Mostly my mindset came from a tour of Glasgow’s building murals we did a couple of years ago. Those murals are fantastic, and I’ve got some of them here in this post.

The featured image (above) was taken in Kilmarnock and it’s one of two two foot high statutes of swimmers appearing up out of the cobbled main street exactly where the river passes underground across the town centre.

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“Come on! Get a move on!”

Monochrome Monday

Mothers will always love and care for their kids, but every now and then the young ones might need a little push.

Photographing Wildflowers

Nature Flower Photography

Recently there have been a few shots that led me to think more about the different ways to photograph a wild flower. I thought perhaps by making some note of these ways I might remember them for the future, and so improve the images I produce.

Neighbours’ Cat

Monochrome Monday

This is a relatively new visitor to our garden – a young grey tabby and a very nervous little cat too. It has lost one of its back legs but that certainly doesn’t slow it down one iota.

Colours in Harmony

I always think that images that contrast Blue and Yellow work particularly well, like the image of a newly painted warehouse above, even though theory says the Blue – Orange is a true complimentary colour pairing.

Future Hybrid

Abstract 5

Green-veined White

Nature Spot

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HQ at Glasgow

Monochrome Monday

Scramblers at Drumlanrig

I recall a famous quote that says that a portrait shot in colour shows the person’s clothes, but take a portrait in monochrome and it shows the person’s soul.

It’s a great quote, and I’m beginning to think the same theory applies to sports photography. Colour is great for showing the glamour and the visual impact, but a black and white image really seems to show more of the soul of the sport.

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Friendship

I’ve picked out these two images in response to SandyL’s Friendly Friday Challenge. The subject Sandy chose is ‘Friendship’.