Tag: bridge

  • Girona views, Catalonia, Spain

    Girona Part One

    Girona – northern Spain’s largest city lies 62 miles north of Barcelona. Its position has been fought over many times by the French just 40 miles to the north. Wilfred the Hairy the Count of Barcelona, incorporated it within Barcelona’s power in 878.

    River Onyar towards Basilica De Sant Feliu_Girona
    River Onyar towards Basilica De Sant Feliu

    It is a beautiful City full of pastels, history, alcoves (or is it nooks and crannies), cathedrals. From the Catalan flags you can feel it is Catalan in spirit, rarely a Spanish flag in sight. (more…)

  • Commonwealth Games 2014

    Commonwealth Games 2014

    The games came to Glasgow and as with every festival and event the city put on its best party dress which made a memorable visit. (more…)

  • Portland St Suspension Bridge

    Portland St Suspension Bridge

    Photography on a sunny Sunday morning around South Portland street suspension bridge in Glasgow. Just upstream and east from Pacific Quay. St Andrews Cathedral overlooks the river Clyde and the bridge.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    See Pacific Quay Photographs

  • Clackmannan in the Cold

    Clackmannan in the Cold

    This was a typically unpredictable morning. With a high pressure system in charge giving cold, frost and fog which had descended over Clackmannan meaning views were very peek-a-boo minute to minute. These photographs were taken from Kings Seat Hill upon which the parish of Clackmannan nestles.

    It offers great views into Fife in the East, Ochils and Perthshire in the north, Stirling east and Falkirk to the south. The Bruce family settled and built one of the County of Clackmannanshire’s five towers to project their power.

    Sunrise over the cold rooftops of Clackmannan

     

    Robert the Bruce's Clackmannan Tower
    Clackmannan Tower below the Moon

     

    The Wallace Monument in Stirling and snow-capped Campsies in the distance with Alloa in the mist

     

    Clackmannanshire and Kincardine bridges in cold weather with the heat of Grangemouth bubbling-up clouds

     

    Robert the Bruce’s Clackmannan Tower in the mist

     

    Snow-capped Ochils