Kelvingrove

On Tuesday we met John and Margaret at  Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, built in a Spanish Baroque style opening in 1901. It was remodelled in 2006 with the Life galleries representing natural history, human history and prehistory and the Expression galleries, which include the fine art collections. The 22 galleries display over 8,000 objects. The centrepiece of the Centre Hall is a concert pipe organ from 1901 with a walnut case front and non-functional display pipes. There is a recital on the organ at 1 pm every day. The last two images are of the Subway system - a great asset when visiting Glasgow.

Museum of Modern Art and Evening on the Clyde

Having walked around the district containing the Mackintosh School of Art (sadly still under wrapping during its reconstruction after the fire), we walked back via George Square and went into the Museum of Modern Art - a very narrow museum built off a traditional staircase. For the evening shots last night, I was using the Olympus Live Composite mode which shoots a series of images using the same exposure time, with each shot only recording new sources of light – and then composites them in-camera.

Glasgow Day 2

Some panoramas, multiexposures and reflections from a walk yesterday from Glasgow city and the Riverside Museum finishing with the new Swing Bridge by the Museum

Fitzwilliam Cambridge - Vases

Our first visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum since March and I took the opportunity to take photos of some of the wonderful vases and teapots etc in their collection with the idea of practising some of the soft light techniques that we were demonstrating at our CCC Wednesday Workshop. My method is simpler than some we were shown with the image duplicated and then 50%Gaussian blur faded in screen mode to give a highlight glow. Next a texture in soft light mode and a white or pastel layer also in soft light. The opacity of each layer adjusted plus masks where required.

 

 

Tallin - Estonian Open Air Museum

The Estonian Open Air Museum spans 72 hectares of very attractive forest bordering the sea just outside Tallin city centre. Established in 1957, the museum showcases 68 farmhouses assembled into twelve farmyards from North, South and West Estonia. I visited the 18th-century rural/fishing village, which comes complete with schoolhouse, a fire station, inn, church, etc, together with interesting toilets and inquisitive red squirrels