Photography…mostly.

Tag: clyde

  • Finnieston Crane Old And New

    Finnieston Crane Old And New

    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…

  • Pacific Quay Photographs

    Pacific Quay Photographs

    Crikey jings…two posts in one day! This was an early shoot catching sun rising over the arched roof of the Glasgow Science Museum surrounded on three sides by the river Clyde in these Pacific Quay photographs.

  • Curves on the Clyde

    Curves on the Clyde

    I’m making no apologies for showing more and more views and details around the Glasgow Science Centre, Tower and IMAX cinema buildings. These are organic and curvaceous buildings growing from the ground. Unlike the rabbit hutch BBC Scotland building next door. Apart from this first shot 🙂          

  • Waverley Paddle Steamer day out

    Waverley Paddle Steamer day out

    Over the past ten years my family went “doon the water”, touring the Clyde estuary, its seaside ports and islands aboard the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world – a day out on the Waverley. If you have visitors, or just need to get some fresh-air then a day on the Waverley is an…

  • Sunrise on Graving Docks, Govan

    Sunrise on Graving Docks, Govan

  • Renfrew Ferry on the Clyde

    Renfrew Ferry on the Clyde