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A Back Wall

When you walk down the lane at the back of some houses in Ayrshire, you don’t expect to see something like this. And it’s a lane for general access with garages, some in poor condition, and those walls of the back gardens of the houses. And then this mural appears and certainly raises the spirits. I walk this way with my daughter’s dog on Thursdays and rain or shine, it’s a lovely thing to see.

Same reason I post these photos on this blog, just on the off-chance that they will be spotted by some passer-by who might receive a little enlightenment.

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Posted for this week’s Monochrome-Madness Challenge titled ‘Walls’ and hosted by Margaret of the ‘From Pyrenees tp Pennines’ blog

Shapes on Clydeside

In Lens-Artists Challenge #385, Ritva asks us to submit images with Unusual Crops. It’s a great creative exercise to deliberately do these odd shots. But I have to say that I’ve let that part of creativity slip recently. So for this week I’m falling back on an old post from 2020 which I don’t think many Lens-Artists have seen. I took the images on a trip early one Sunday morning back in 2014 . I do hope you appreciate these shots with most these shots cropped in-camera. It was an exercise for me on unusual cropping.

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Coloured Railway

I don’t usually do this kind of thing, because I don’t think of it as photography …. but more of just messing around on a wet day. I took some photographs I taken at a railway museum and played around with them with my Affinity software.

When I clicked some buttons, it was just a Wow! Really not quite sure what to make of them.

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Ruins

Prompted by this week’s Monochrome Madness challenge titled ‘Ruins’, I’m posting to fairly recent images. The lead image above is of the famous Dunure Castle once the seat of the Kennedy family who ruled a large part of South-west Scotland.

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Cloisters

Shots of the Cloisters at Glasgow University.

“The Cloisters (also known as The Undercroft) connect the East and West quadrangles and lead inside the Gilbert Scott Building to the stunning Bute Hall, where the University’s graduation ceremonies are held, and the Hunterian Museum. With their fluted columns and transverse ribbed vault, these impressive archways are an iconic part of the University, and have been seen onscreen in many films and TV shows including Cloud Atlas and Outlander.”

from University of Glasgow Self-guided Tour

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In the Pinkston

Lead image :-Nikon D7500 + Sigma 105mm f2.8 lens; taken at f6.3; 1/1000sec; ISO1600

I’ve been lucky to have joined my camera club’s outing to the Pinkston Watersports Park in Glasgow on a evening when avid kayakers were practicing their supreme skills in guiding their crafts through tumbling white water. It was a great opportunity to get close to sports men and women with the camera, certainly better than travelling to the great competitions that take place on more remote venues on rivers in the Scottish highlands.

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Checks and Stripes

So, here I am responding to Ann-Christine’s Lens-Artists Challenge – Striped and Checked.

I’m not doing well at getting new images at the moment so once again I’m falling back on my archives and even there finding very few ‘checks‘ – other than tartan. What else can I do but start with a couple of kilts? The hammer thrower above was taken at the Helensburgh Highland Games.

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