I fell in love with this gorgeous November afternoon light in Merchant City, Glasgow. Anyone who lives here and is familiar with the typical Scottish weather knows how rare this is and how briefly it lasts. You grab your camera and shoot, shoot, shoot!!! 85mm prime brilliantly renders delicate haze and sun flare and let’s you reach across the street unnoticed.
After my foray into the urban aesthetics of back alleys and rubbish bins I decided to explore Glasgow cityscapes and rooftops. I was searching for the juxtaposition of ‘classical’ and industrial forms, textures and materials from an elevated vantage point. The Lighthouse building has two observation platforms and I used them to…
On a sunny afternoon, armed with a telephoto zoom not to disturb the game, I went to Dock Park to document some families playing crazy golf. Dock Park, developed at the end of the nineteenth century, epitomises the Victorian idea of green spaces in urban centres where people of all…
Photo review of Poppies Weeping Window Carlisle Castle installation by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper on tour as part of UK-wide WW1 centenary events
A few thoughts on the powers of psychogeographic (photo)walking in the lockdown Glasgow and our discovery of Magic BT Beans artwork.
Visiting Save it for a Rainy Day portrait photography exhibition about present day Gorbals residents by Doro Zinn at Street Level Photoworks gallery in Trongate, Glasgow
I am not an architectural photographer, no I am a gardener. I am a photographer of urban life. So when we visited the Library of Birmingham terrace gardens, the Discovery Terrace and the Secret Garden, during the last week’s 4 Squares Weekender I was more curious to see up close…