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Tag: glasgow

  • A bendy lens on Pacific Quay

    A bendy lens on Pacific Quay

    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.              …

  • 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…

  • Glasgow Murals and Buildings

    Glasgow Murals and Buildings

    These photographs were taken on an early Sunday stroll through the city from the east end. Interesting Glasgow murals and buildings and murals on Strathclyde University buildings reflect a nautical history of the Graham Hills buildings.  

  • 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

  • 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 🙂