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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

Glasgow Murals

This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge hosted by Patti at pilotfishblog.com is to present images that show the “Power of Juxtaposition”. i.e. where you have two elements in a photograph which when shown together add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Scratching my head, I recalled a tour with some friends of Glasgow’s mural art. And my approach that day had been to show the art in juxtaposition to people – people walking by or the life going on around those paintings large and small.

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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’

Leaf and Wood

“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn’t it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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Rise and Fall

I rarely produce an image by combining photographs like this one. The two layered images are, of course, of the same aeroplane, taken at the Scottish Air Show not too long ago.

The Gallery Hideaway

When I read Leya’s Lens-Artists Challenge was to be about ‘My Hideaway’, I had to scratch my head. The main place I successfully hideaway is inside the covers of a good book, but I didn’t believe I could do justice with photographs of my books.

Trees in the Sun 3 – Resurgence

This is the third and final image of those white-barked trees that I came across. All images taken on the same day, in the same place with the same vertical camera movement during the exposure. This image was taken with a shutter speed of 1/5 second.

Trees in the Sun 2 – Portal

This is the second post in this series of images I captured at Knapp’s Loch with a group of trees of such whitish bark. I liked the streakiness and the hints of the tree shadows along the ground.

I feel here the movement of the camera has created a generally gloomy outlook in the foreground. But the space in the trees gives some hope of a way through present troubles…..hopefully to a brighter future. Lets hope so!

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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