Tag: Glasgow

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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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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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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Monochrome Madness – The Old Mill

I thought I’d captured too much in this image and that focussing in on parts of the view might have been better. However, a bit of work to even out the exposure seemed to help. I was pleased with the way the sky came out and I like it enough to get it printed up. And it worked out as a mono which is good because it was pretty drab in colour.

Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE. This also gives you info on how to join in to the challenge.

World War Z

What’s a beat-up Philadelphia taxi doing in Glasgow?

Was I lucky? I don’t know but back in 2011, I was wandering round Glasgow with my camera. It was a Saturday and had just dropped my wife off at her tutorial. And didn’t I just stumble on the making of ‘World War Z’? – the post-apocalyptic zombie action horror film starring Brad Pitt.

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Startling Symmetry

The search for symmetry, and the emotional pleasure we derive when we find it, must help us make sense of the the seasons and the reliability of friendships.

Alan Lightman

In taking photographs, I more commonly seek to change out of a symmetrical view. I try mostly to get an angle on the subject and to achieve some flow through or around the image.

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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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