Category: photography

What’s round the corner?

in one frame #1

Nikon D7500 + Sigma 17-50mm @ 29mm ; f11; 1/50 sec; ISO100

Out for a walk through a housing scheme, wandering through streets of attractive modern homes, mostly modern flats near the harbour. Turned a corner and was surprised – just didn’t expect to see the glass factory. There it was dominating the view. And people live daily with the view, accept it. Hopefully it doesn’t bother them. I’d hope the factory is not a source of noise, or any other concern to the residents.

Submitting this responding to the Lens-Artists Challenge #380 – ‘What’s Round the Corner?’ – set up by Anne at the Slow Shutter Speed blog – see here. This challenge is getting such a variety of responses, it’s worthy of investigation.

This will be one of a series of blogs from me, showing just the one photograph. I seem to have accumulated a number of images that don’t quite form into a cohesive post. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully it’ll give more focus to individual images for a while.

The Skelpies

This 33-foot-high stainless-steel sculpture at Port Glasgow is indeed a magnificent sight; a memorial to the centuries of shipbuilding on the Lower River Clyde and a means of honouring all those workers. It’s proper title is ‘The Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow’ but everyone calls them ‘The Skelpies’

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Fireworks

I believed that ‘ephemeral’ was a word that was something to do with ghosts – I don’t know where I picked that up from. However, Tina from the ‘Travels and Trifles’ blog, set me right with this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge around the word ‘Ephemeral’ which she explains means “lasting for a very short time”.

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Dreamy Day at the Coast

The sky is blue, the sea is calm, the air is pure. A heat mist obscures the distant shores. The temperature has risen – surprisingly so – unexpected for last April. Winter clothes are cast off. The scene sooths, uplifts. A day to be grateful.

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