Another sequence of Pacific Quay on the Clyde, Glasgow this time shot using a very wide 12mm lens. This allows much more dramatic perspective and a fresh approach to anything with height eg. buildings. The first two photographs are reflections I noticed on the BIPP building’s glass windows.
Photographs of Stirling and the stone construction shot around the west side towards the Church of Holy Rude and Stirling Castle.
On the south side of the Clyde lies the Glasgow Tower opened in 2001. It is the worlds tallest 360 degree rotating building as it aligns to the direction of the wind. Its like a large upended wing and contains two lift shafts and set of stairs to a viewing platform. Beside this lies the arched Glasgow Science Centre and bubble pea-pod IMAX cinema.
On north side of the Clyde stands the old Finnieston crane (errected 1931) which was built to load steam locomotives onto ships during Glasgow’s industrial engineering prime. Glasgow sculptor George Wylie suspended a straw model locomotive from the hammerhead crane during the Glasgow Garden Festival of 1987. Somewhere in my film archive I have a shot of this. Beside the crane are photographs of the ‘armadillo’ or Clyde Auditorium designed by Fosters and Partners and built 1997.
Continuing the seashore theme of late. This collection of photographs are from Wester Ross, north of Gairloch which is another ‘exposed to the Westerlies’ nook of the Northwest coast of Scotland.
A small collection of seaside photographs around Scotland. Some are simple phone camera grabshots. There is something refreshing about visits to the seaside. Is it the tides perpetually renewing the shoreline, weather, smell or sound? Whatever, it is perhaps my favourite location in which to relax.