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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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Shapes with a Story

I’ve just two images for the Lens-Artists Challenge #383 on shapes and designs.

Mono-Minimalism

This week Ritva has set a challenge in the Lens-Artists series, to show minimalist photography in monochrome. It’s a great idea for a challenge and is the sort of photography that gets me thinking. I’ve taken one or two yesterday and also been searching my back catalogue for images that would fit the requirement.

So I’m looking for simple clean mono images with only a few elements that in some way have an aesthetic feel to them. I do like this idea.

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What’s round the corner?

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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.

Wings of the Red Kite

If I can just squeeze this in. It’s been a difficult week, I’ve been tired out but now coming back to myself. The subject ‘Wings’ was set by Beth of the Wandering Dawgs blog, who hosts the Lens-Artists Challenge #376.

The subject took me back a number of years to a visit to the red kite feeding station at Bellymack Hill Farm in the Galloway region. There every afternoon, food is put out and dozens of red kites appear for their daily.

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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”.

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.

Lighthouses at Port Glasgow

Found ourselves sitting in Burger King with rain hammering on the roof and streaming down the windows. Thankful for the refuge and some warm coffee.

Once the brutal downpour had expended its energy, we found the waterfront here at Port Glasgow quite deserted. After the storm this was indeed a peaceful place.

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.