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As I have a large collection of autumn photographs I might as well complete the trilogy. Dumbarton Rock and Levengrove Park during a thunderstorm seen through a dark, homemade filter, held in front of the camera. Much cheaper than buying professional clip on filters. Very pleased with this effect I remember. Never worked as well as this again so only a passing experiment.
Dog walker. Clydebank Park in Autumn.
An autumn morning along the River Clyde at Clydebank.
A rhapsody in pink. Unusual bush in autumn colour.
Blue beauty. Hydrangea in September.
All along the watchtowers. A walk along the deep water channel.
At maximum low tide, at certain times of year, you get up to an hour to walk dry footed along the towers. Wear boots or wellies as the mud in places is ankle deep and at the first sign of the tide coming in you need to retreat fast..... As it comes in fast.
But a unique day for photography. Same line of towers at high tide a few hours later.
The first tower opposite Dumbuck Quarry.
Tide rushing in. The haunt of mermen, mermaids, and seabirds. This human heads back for dry land... or dry-ish mud.
Tide rushing back in. You have to be careful as in certain spots it can creep in front of you unnoticed meaning you have to wade across for the unwary.
A busy Clydebank in autumn.
The Erskine path along the Clyde shoreline.
Around ten years ago they were pulling down some Glasgow tower blocks which made good silhouettes. Mosspark district here.
Pollokshaws Hi rise flats. These ones are now gone.
Large 'super moon' over Clydebank.
With shorter daylight hours and dark by 4:00 pm in December a walk along the Clydeside at Finnieston is often more colour filled than the daytime view of mist and grey mornings.
Bridge reflections at Finnieston. River Clyde.
STV studios right next to the BBC. Makes sense to have them together in one spot.
A kingdom of nature's stars.
A bird dog. Bellahouston Park.
A wildflower strip at Bellahouston Park. Unfortunately a lot of wildflower strips are one season only so I was lucky to capture this. By the second year very few came up, smothered out by completing weeds, like thistles and dock. Yet other verges I've noticed, seeded naturally by nature, come up 40 years in a row when untouched. Presumably because that's where the flowers wanted to grow by themselves and had the correct habitat to thrive in. Still something of a mystery to it. The dark arts. A lot going on unseen in the ground below. The sisters of mycelium perhaps, lending a hand in wild sown beds? I noticed one year outside a school several large circle beds of wild red poppies, deliberately dug and seeded. A beautiful display. By the second year few remained, smothered out by non flowering weeds. By the third year not one remained.
My birdland kingdoms.
Fun to watch them play in the evening sunlight.
Arthur's Seat crows.
The return to Glasgow in winter darkness. 8:00 PM.
And you do get rewards in autumn. A time of bounty.... hunters....
The Clyde is an old name. River valleys can be warmer than the surrounding landscapes. Before the UK joined the EU The Clyde and other UK river valleys held the nations fruit growing slopes, sheltered and hopefully frost free for the growing seasons. The 'warm valley'... though not as warm as hotter countries elsewhere, so most of the Clyde glasshouses are long gone, despite climate change warming further. But one future day...who knows... they might come back.
The warm valley view. The upper Clyde orchard trail.
Autumn is also good for sunsets, more moisture in the atmosphere. A82 at Mountblow heading towards the west.
The door into Heaven....
The living heart of the sun....
The sign of the cross.
Haven't seen a good sunset for a few years now! That pink bush is gorgeous - do you know what it is?
ReplyDeleteSome very clever and interesting photos there. What are those watchtowers? are they actually watchtowers from the war or something?
Hi Carol. you always have a knack of zooming in to things I don't know so I had to look it up :) It is Euonymus Alatus otherwise known as the Burning Bush due to its vivid colours in autumn. Thank God for reverse image search.
ReplyDeleteThe watch towers are actually deep water shipping markers to show the line ships must stick to as the rest of the Clyde at that point, despite being a mile across, is very shallow with numerous sand banks. When the Clyde was really busy with shipping they were needed but now they are not maintained much as all large ships, up or down, have tugs/pilot boats to guide them. All along the Watchtowers is a famous Bob Dylan song and Jimi Hendrix cover and of course 50 Shades of Grey is a famous book trilogy and three film set. Not that I've seen or read them. I tend to avoid popular stuff.
As always, such beautiful photos! I would not be tempted to walk on that shoreline, I am too easily distracted by nature or buildings and I might not notice that incoming tide until it was too late! Love the reflections of the lights in the water. Reminds me of the line, "the jeweled boats at night" from a poem. Seems I remember seeing beautiful poppies in an unused parking lot in England. They were tall and plentiful and healthy and I am sure had no attention whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kay, Sometimes Glasgow city centre can look better at night rather than during the day when it can look grubby and run down. For years now I've thought the hotels around Finnieston might be better for visitors staying over as that area is very modern looking by comparison. In that BBC HQ in the photo they have a Scam Interceptor Team, trying to stop the modern plague of people losing all their money to phone scammers, made worse by everything, including banking, going online. Very hard to tell nowadays between genuine phone calls and fake ones because they all use call centres that could be anywhere in the world. It is a TV programme currently shown here and from the view above Finnieston, Glasgow looks like a really beautiful city. Not quite the reality when you walk around Glasgow City Centre which looks very tired and grubby to my eyes. Finnieston is nice though. Modern.
ReplyDeleteAnd the main reason it looks tired and grubby is because everything is going online so you get city centre shops that are mainly vape shops, nail bars, etc rather than traditional bustling shopping streets from times past.
ReplyDeleteIt's vape shops and liquor stores here. Sad to see. All the more reason we must search for beauty, Bob! Always.
DeleteWigton is still very traditional for shops which is great - Carlisle isn't bad either but it's starting to suffer from the online trade...
DeleteSome great photos there. I particularly like the pink shrub you identified for Carol, and all the sunsets.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anabel.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful series of photos! Thank you so much for sharing, and warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. Not that warm here. Down to minus 12c over the Scottish Highland mountains a day ago. Minus 5c in the Scottish cities overnight. " Winter is coming!" :o)
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