Photography…mostly.

Tag: church

  • Stone built Stirling

    Stone built Stirling

    Photographs of Stirling and the stone construction shot around the west side towards the Church of Holy Rude and Stirling Castle.          

  • 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

  • Spring outside a monumental little secret

    Spring outside a monumental little secret

    Last year I wrote about how visiting The Church of Holy Rude in Stirling was surprising. While the car was being serviced I spent an hour wandering around the outside of the church. I have no fasciation for graveyards, but the textures and symbolism was so strong (as were the snowdrops) my iphone was deployed.  

  • Stirling’s monumental little secret

    Stirling’s monumental little secret

    I have visited many churches and this one is stunning. The 14th century timber roof beams, graphic windows, and an organ to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Fine buildings become special when the people who own, run and maintain them not only appreciate their wonder, but share it freely…

  • Thomas Coats Memorial Church

    Thomas Coats Memorial Church

    I’ll keep this light on words as i think this building speaks for itself. This is Coats Memorial Church in Paisley, Renfrewshire. As an Engineering student I sat exams in its cold interior (with a trusty tip-ex bottle of etched maths formulae), but its the gothic exterior that grabs the eye in Paisley’s High Street. …