I wanted to make this photograph a little special using digital post production, as I thought that it captured a great little moment. When I took the snap I didn’t see the man’s arm pointing or the two women sat under the umbrella. However when looking through my photographs at the end of the day, I thought this would make a great picture if only I could draw more attention to the three people at the back of the barge. So I converted the majority of the image to monochrome (black and white) and “colour popped” the umbrella to bring back the original colour and draw your eye to this focal point in the picture.

It looks like the kind of metal spikes you might find along the top of prison fences, but I thought that it made an interesting silhouetted shape against the very misty sky. I forget exactly what was behind the fence (probably an electricity sub-station or something to do with one of the bridges over the Clyde). Again, taken in Glasgow on my last walk around the city back in December.

Wood seems to weather in very interesting ways and the shutters pictured above are a great example of this. I could have turned the camera sideways to take a portrait aspect photo, but I prefer landscape views. Here this gives you more of the surroundings to the shutters. Obviously black and white works well to bring out the textures in the photo. It’s just a shame about the wooden palate in the lower right corner, but that’s not something I was prepared to move around.

Here we see the one of the largest symbols of Glasgow’s engineering heritage, the Finnieston Crane. I took this photo on my day trip to the city last December. It was mid-afternoon and there was a mist over the city that could have put me off taking pictures. In fact it was so misted that everything almost looked black and white without me trying! I was there to shoot some night photos and I hoped this mist would clear. Fortunately when I returned a few hours later it had, as you can see in the later photo below.