Glasgow in the Evening, a photo from Glasgow, Scotland

Photographer's Note

This is a view of the Glasgow skyline one evening taken from Camp Hill in Queen's Park on the Southside of the city. This is one of the highest parts of the city and you get a fantastic panoramic view of the city looking North with the hills rising up behind. This is a view towards NW with the tenements of Pollokshields in the foreground looking over to Glasgow University (the long building with a tower in the centre and the distant Campsie Fells beyond.

Glasgow isn't exactly Paris or Florence but I've always thought it has a weirdly romantic quality to it, especially in the evening. I don't know if that's just me being biased because I live here!

Just south of the park are the Battlefield and Langside districts which is where the battle of Langside was fought leading to Mary Queen of Scots exile in England.

Photographically I used a warm-up filter to emphasise the evening glow and counteract Provia's slightly cool tinge and an ND grad filter to darken the sky and retain more detail. I'm not totally sure this scan isn't slightly tilted to one side - I've found it hard to judge becuase there are also some converging verticals and the slight barrel distortion from the lens. Oh well. I don't feel too seasick looking at it.

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gringofil (0) 2004-04-07 7:12

WOW, what a shot. Wonderful light to accent the buildings and the hills in the background. I really like the fact that the church towers guide my eyes from the foreground to the background of the image. But I have to pick on you a little here. Why, oh why, did you crop off the top of the first tower? If not for this small mistake this would have been a truly magnificent shot. Anyway, if you can climb that hill again, take another shot, just don't crop the tower! Good job, though.

Josh69 (1437) 2004-04-07 7:52

Good photo, and a good note to go with it. I like the evening sun colour very much. The slight yellow colour to the clouds is also very nice.
It would have (imho) been better if you did not crop the top of the spire.

joseelias (0) 2004-04-07 9:31

Nice cityscape photo. I really like the composition with the church tower near us helping to create the notion of didtances very well.

The warm image works well for me although I feel the contrast are a bit too strong because the yelows become a a bit "agressive" (at least in my monitor). I don't know if you've tried to cerrect the barrel distortion but now in the tower it can be seen some pincushion distortion.

elihesamian (26149) 2004-04-07 9:48

Dear Matt ! It`s a really splendour picture."gringofil" is right about top of the tower.But, apart from it, I like golden sunlight in this pic.composition is good & form of clouds are effective.very nice shot!
I waiting for another,too :-)

Steely (895) 2004-04-07 11:47

Glasgow has a lot of steeples, this looks like a wonderful golden evening.Those are really neat looking tenements, this word usually equates souless concrete slums in a lot of places in the world.

History, Hills, Steeples and SPL, what more do you need?
good shot

PS celtic or rangers?

SampraS (619) 2006-02-06 18:45 [Comment]