Benjamin Watt

Glasgow’s miles better

December 12, 2006 – 10:55 pm | by Benjamin Watt

I spent the last weekend in Glasgow catching up with friends (I did my Computing Science BSc at Glasgow University) and relatives. During the day on Saturday though, I decided to hit the town, and not long later got pretty fed up of pushing through the many Christmas shoppers. As I had my camera with me, I decided to head over to the banks of the River Clyde via Exhibition Centre train station. I was hoping to try and get some photos of the river and the various new buildings and bridges that the area now offers. Things have changed quite dramatically round there in a relatively short timeframe, it’s no longer the wasteland it once was, despite what Google Maps would maybe have you believe.

A couple of hours later, I came away cold but with a full 2Gb SD card of RAW images. I’d ended up being joined by about four other photographers as we all tried to get the best shots from both sides of the river, and on all three of the closest bridges, as the sun went down.

If you’re interested, I’ve put ten of these shots (I’m not going to bore you with all the photos I took) up on Zooomr. I’ve made use of Zooomr’s Portals to link the photos to each other (try clicking through to Zooomr on the above image and hovering your cursor over the photo when its finished loading), but as well as that, the collection is bundled up in a Zooomr set of Glasgow.

The above shot is of the new BBC Scotland building, which they’ll be moving into early next year. There were engineers up on the roof fiddling with the satellites when I was there, but much of the building still looks to be pretty empty. What it does offer for now though is some really nice reflections of the surrounding area, hence the photo.