Monthly Archive: June 2015

A challenge for a sensor?

28th June 2015 – In the middle of Stirling, in front of the council offices, there an area which looks quite out of place, borderline surreal: several acres of ground have been sown with joyful wild flowers as if it… Read more >

Two fields

27th June 2015 – Two images made today about twenty miles apart, both from the side of the road and both are really the same shot. Nerston (south of Cambuslang) and Bannockburn (south of Stirling) in their summer colours.

Whifflet

24th June 2015 – From the 1830s through to the 1960s, Whifflet was a major coal and steel centre. This track was originally part of the railway network which would have fed the works with raw materials and carried its… Read more >

Glasgow School of Art Diploma Show

19th June 2015 – It is still shocking to think of the fire that destroyed so many student’s work and did such great damage to the Mackintosh building last year. This year the Fine Art show was in the Tontine… Read more >

Closing Bracket

7th June 2015 – I opened this sequence with a balcony shot made on the first evening, and am closing it with the same view made on the final morning. Another portentious sky, or just chance biblical references? No time… Read more >

Strawberry and Pistachio

6th June 2015 – Working with the light and with the place is becoming easier and more productive each day. I am really pleased with these two images made in Punto Milocca and Ognina. Colour, light and above all, Sicily.

Out of Season

5th June 2015 – I’m not sure when the Italians come to their holiday homes, but it certainly is not now. Mostly there is silence behind locked gates, but sometimes there are the sounds of preparation and making-ready for the… Read more >

I am the only one walking

4th June 2015 – Is it as hard for you as it is for me to sit all day on a blissfully sandy Mediterranean beach, reading a book and having the occaisional refreshing dip between chapters? Being still is not… Read more >

A new light

3rd June 2015 – I don’t really understand what makes it so difficult to work in unfamiliar light. After all, it is the same pair of eyes looking out. Perhaps it is not the light at all, but rather the… Read more >

Opening Bracket

1st June 2015 – Anyone believing in the portent of symbols in the sky might attach much meaning to this celestial exclaimation. I, on the other hand, take great pleasure in chance and serendipity. This from our holiday balcony in… Read more >