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Couldn't agree more either - viva Glasgow.
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'No' the best place, but there's diamonds in the mud,' - Gerry Cinnamon.
Let's make Govanhill great again.
The last picture - that's my front door - the dark one on the left - to the right is Mr Ahmed - which - interestingly - if you stick the address into Google - it is registered as an official - zawiya - a Sufi meeting place - all well and good - it is bangin' on the Prophet's birthday - let me tell you. To my left - which you can't see - are Alex and Kiki - and their son - behind me - the flat is empty at the moment - used to be occupied by a bunch of Indian PHD students. Lovely bunch of lads - who freely admitted - they took their studies to the ultimate conclusion - so they didn't have to go home. How shite was home? - that you would choose to stay in Govanhill? We are three floors up - hence the seating we provide for visitors - not used to the stairs - to get their breath back. The geraniums aren't doing so well this year. Tenement life - in our close - I'm an ethnic minority - in this building - and generally - where I live - I wouldn't have it any other way. Cheers - I
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Govanhill sounds like an interesting place to live, where I lived up in the Midlands I too was an ethnic minority where I lived but it made things interesting, different foods, sounds, smells and we all got on very well although I could have done without the call to prayer from the mosques early every morning through loud speaker systems, four mosques within earshot .
It's very different to where I live now, a medium size village full of gossiping old women who know the in's and out's of everyone's business !
No.....I'm being a little unkind, it's not quite that bad but it is a village!
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Each to their own - fair enough - Istanbul? - Marrakesh - Peshawar - Chitral - Kabul - Rawalpindi - were the worst - possibly - with the exception of Lahore - fuck me - it's half six in the morning? Salat al-fajr - no matter where you stay - you ain't far from a mosque - they don't do the call to prayer in Glasgow - for reasons I don't understand - even the central mosque - is silent - a truly evocative sound though - when done well - Istanbul - Jen and I - standing at the top of the hill - behind the Grand Bazaar - a densely foggy day - looking down to Sirkeci - as the call started - it is coordinated - one after the other - so as not to cross over - that would be an offense to Allah - I'm not religious - but - that - was quite something to hear. Goosebumps - then we went for dinner on the Galata Bridge - and got set about the raki - we'd be rubbish Muslims. - I.
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Hamish - trying to be cute - first one perhaps - but the second - get out the road of the tele - your mother was a bat? The staring eyes thing - very much belongs to working Collies? I think they do that to sheep? Get out the road - shark heid. I.
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I love Hamish and what a great name too!
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Diesels mood after i had spent 13 hours smoking a 4kilo of brisket on the offset smoker, he spent the day at my side in the sun, and got none of the leftovers (there wasnt any)
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A chat and brew with the locals. Orion Alberta.
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Do not feed the balloons - I.
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Let's make Govanhill great again.
Normally - the first thing I do with my personal pictures - is to dump the colour information - in my opinion - it is much harder to do a decent snap in black and white - you can hang a pretty pic on just a nice coincidence of colours - not so in monochrome - the composition is stripped bare - but sometimes there are exceptions - like tonight. It might sound odd - but I can see in black and white - years of using film. cheers - I.
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Amazing Iain what the photographers eye picks out that the rest of us would never think to take. Excellent shots.
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Thanks - It's not hard - you just need to pay attention - to the seemingly mundane - there is beauty everywhere. Pay attention to fleeting light - it is perhaps the hardest thing - to photograph - your everyday environment - to find something new in it - familiarity can easily rob you of vision - in my experience - tossed into Kabul with 20 rolls of Tri-X - can you do two months in Albania? - no problem - job done - easy - apart from people I'd never met trying to shoot me - no worries. It is a struggle to photograph my barrio. See below - a year ago on Achmelvich beach - Sutherland - that's me - how times have changed - we crashed on the sand that night.. I
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Light, shade, composition and colour... absolutely brilliant shots!
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The big country. Heading across Alberta last year.....
