Glasgow city shots.- December 08

[OLDFART]

cheers John tell them thats but they are just for playtime when i get bored :)

[Lone Groover]

cheers John tell them thats but they are just for playtime when i get bored

D'Y train your own glow worms or do you buy them ready mix?

[John]

cheers John tell them thats but they are just for playtime when i get bored

Sorry I was a bit vague. I was looking at the ones on the first page of this thread - Science Centre and Squinty bridge.

[OLDFART]

@ Lone Groover ... ye canny skimp i train ma own

@ nae probs John they can like whatever ones they like

[lostcause]

something completely

that's a great effect OLDFART - do you mind if I ask how you did it?

[OLDFART]

main bit is fractilius a plug-in for photoshop,

[hazy]

Oldfart I have just fell out with the wife because of you. My bottom and feet have taken root from Sunday as I have not moved from my chair looking at your photies. They are the best effect photos on HG by a long shot. Keep them coming.

[Pyroninja]

Wee bit of under the city..stil counts as Glasgow, right?

[scottwramsay]

Has everyone else seen the pipe band who do the hokey-cokey on Buchanan Street?



Apologies for not being able to stand still enough to freeze the walls in the background while they were dancing about.

[Digitographer]

Lovely pics, OLDFART - especially the one of the cloisters. Very nice indeed.

Will

[Moniker42]

I was in the city centre for a wander around on Christmas Eve:






Those are my favourites from the day, they're on http://www.flickr.com/photos/moniker42/

I'm one for uploading a few too many shots to SmugMug... http://moniker42.smugmug.com/ Quite a few galleries of shots from in and around Glasgow at various times in 2008




P.S. Hello Scott... fancy seeing you here

[Lone Groover]

One Sunny Morning in Whitinch.







More here if you care to look .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davetrott/

[dave2]

Random west End wanderings on the 30th December.

[Wee Minx]

Ooooh, that makes me feel sick, some ones was sick on the swings too, all over the place

[gap74]

A few final shots of the year from a wee frosty Hogmanay dog walk along the Clyde and Rotten Calder rivers around the Westburn and Newton areas of Cambuslang...


The disused railway viaduct over the Clyde between Westburn and Carmyle - built in the late 1890s and disused for decades, it baffles me why it was never demolished, given that any attempt to reopen the route will probably require replacement of the rusting structure. But I'm glad it's still there, the Victorian lattice girderwork is far more aesthetically interesting than any modern replacement bridge would be.


Another decaying hulk, the burnt-out and vandalised remains of Newton Farm - actually two houses built side-by-side, if you look closely.


Not going to be selling much ice-cream out here in weather like this!


Leaving the farm buildings to the horizon, this is further along the Clyde walkway, with the river down to my right.


Onto the Rotten Calder now, and the giant embankment that carries the West Coast Main Line between Newton and Uddingston stations. Looks like it was cheaper to build a tunnel through the embankment for the river, rather than take the railway over on a giant viaduct. I think this line dates from around 1849.


Close-up of the icicles in the tunnel.


Further upstream, the view from Redlees Bridge, where the sheltered position has created a bit of a winter wonderland - not hugely obvious in this pic, but half the river is covered in ice.