Simon
@simonxfraser.bsky.social
No AI. Alternative photography. IR and alchemy.
Prone to the bee in my bonnet.
Prone to the bee in my bonnet.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I was there today on my wanders round the West End and took this IR shot from Kelvinbridge. I was mainly thinking about the roofline of the former Red Hackle bonded warehouse to the left and its bright neon red sign on the roofline in the sixties.
Clearly visible from the Great Western Road.
Clearly visible from the Great Western Road.
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I was there today on my wanders round the West End and took this IR shot from Kelvinbridge. I was mainly thinking about the roofline of the former Red Hackle bonded warehouse to the left and its bright neon red sign on the roofline in the sixties.
Clearly visible from the Great Western Road.
Clearly visible from the Great Western Road.
Glasgow Botanic Garden. Kibble Palace. Today.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Glasgow Botanic Garden. Kibble Palace. Today.
My old friend Jake. Gone these five years. Feeling a bit down tonight.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My old friend Jake. Gone these five years. Feeling a bit down tonight.
Early for my hospital appointment. That's three cars booked for parking in a disabled bay without a badge.
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Early for my hospital appointment. That's three cars booked for parking in a disabled bay without a badge.
Ferries like these. I remember travelling on them. The queue for the vehicular ferry and the gates saying DAN - GER when they closed. The crush of men on these steps when the works shifts changed..
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ferries like these. I remember travelling on them. The queue for the vehicular ferry and the gates saying DAN - GER when they closed. The crush of men on these steps when the works shifts changed..
Now who could be pulling the strings 🤔
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Now who could be pulling the strings 🤔
A friend of mine produced this book of photographs and comments a few years ago...
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A friend of mine produced this book of photographs and comments a few years ago...
Laptop kaput... It got water spilled on it while plugged in. This component has blown and there is a short on the input.
Oh well...
Oh well...
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Laptop kaput... It got water spilled on it while plugged in. This component has blown and there is a short on the input.
Oh well...
Oh well...
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Visited this monument to Ayrshire and Scottish coal mining and the great industries it supported.
Looks great in silhouette but the site is neglected and unmaintained.
A memorial and a huge tourist opportunity but nobody cares.
#Ayrshire #Barony #Coalmining #Heritage #Scotland
Looks great in silhouette but the site is neglected and unmaintained.
A memorial and a huge tourist opportunity but nobody cares.
#Ayrshire #Barony #Coalmining #Heritage #Scotland
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Visited this monument to Ayrshire and Scottish coal mining and the great industries it supported.
Looks great in silhouette but the site is neglected and unmaintained.
A memorial and a huge tourist opportunity but nobody cares.
#Ayrshire #Barony #Coalmining #Heritage #Scotland
Looks great in silhouette but the site is neglected and unmaintained.
A memorial and a huge tourist opportunity but nobody cares.
#Ayrshire #Barony #Coalmining #Heritage #Scotland
This is what my labradoodle does to soft toys ..
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is what my labradoodle does to soft toys ..
I didn't know my phone had manual focus and manual exposure 🤔
So much colour thus autumn... and the toadstools..
But I can't get down to them so it's berries..
So much colour thus autumn... and the toadstools..
But I can't get down to them so it's berries..
October 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I didn't know my phone had manual focus and manual exposure 🤔
So much colour thus autumn... and the toadstools..
But I can't get down to them so it's berries..
So much colour thus autumn... and the toadstools..
But I can't get down to them so it's berries..
New camera. Fujica half frame from about 1965. f1.9 lens.
The 1/500 speed is a bit slow but it's no problem.
Looks like it's half frame Sunday...
#Halfframe
The 1/500 speed is a bit slow but it's no problem.
Looks like it's half frame Sunday...
#Halfframe
October 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New camera. Fujica half frame from about 1965. f1.9 lens.
The 1/500 speed is a bit slow but it's no problem.
Looks like it's half frame Sunday...
#Halfframe
The 1/500 speed is a bit slow but it's no problem.
Looks like it's half frame Sunday...
#Halfframe
Glasgow City Chambers. An opulent city council building completed in 1888.
Meanwhile, many of the people of the city lived in squalid slums as recorded by Thomas Annan just a few years before.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Meanwhile, many of the people of the city lived in squalid slums as recorded by Thomas Annan just a few years before.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
September 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Glasgow City Chambers. An opulent city council building completed in 1888.
Meanwhile, many of the people of the city lived in squalid slums as recorded by Thomas Annan just a few years before.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Meanwhile, many of the people of the city lived in squalid slums as recorded by Thomas Annan just a few years before.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
I was there on Sunday. The marble is shades of brown.
In fact it's all a bit brown.
In fact it's all a bit brown.
September 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was there on Sunday. The marble is shades of brown.
In fact it's all a bit brown.
In fact it's all a bit brown.
Chivas Regal plant. Gorbals Glasgow.
September 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Chivas Regal plant. Gorbals Glasgow.
Viking ' Hogsback ' gravemarkers. 10th century.
Govan Old Parish Church.
#Govan #GlasgowOpenDaysFestival #GODF
Govan Old Parish Church.
#Govan #GlasgowOpenDaysFestival #GODF
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Viking ' Hogsback ' gravemarkers. 10th century.
Govan Old Parish Church.
#Govan #GlasgowOpenDaysFestival #GODF
Govan Old Parish Church.
#Govan #GlasgowOpenDaysFestival #GODF
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The Lochgoin monument to the Covenanters and the killing time. Now surrounded by a huge windfarm.
#Covenanter #IR #InfraRed #Ayrshire #Scotland
More details : www.lochgoin.org
#Covenanter #IR #InfraRed #Ayrshire #Scotland
More details : www.lochgoin.org
September 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Lochgoin monument to the Covenanters and the killing time. Now surrounded by a huge windfarm.
#Covenanter #IR #InfraRed #Ayrshire #Scotland
More details : www.lochgoin.org
#Covenanter #IR #InfraRed #Ayrshire #Scotland
More details : www.lochgoin.org
I guess that the metal plates on the right are fixtures left from the tramcar days. Overhead power cable hangers.
My mother used to take me to Partick for shopping on the tram.
Look how dirty the buildings. Every flat burned coal. ( 1962)
My mother used to take me to Partick for shopping on the tram.
Look how dirty the buildings. Every flat burned coal. ( 1962)
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I guess that the metal plates on the right are fixtures left from the tramcar days. Overhead power cable hangers.
My mother used to take me to Partick for shopping on the tram.
Look how dirty the buildings. Every flat burned coal. ( 1962)
My mother used to take me to Partick for shopping on the tram.
Look how dirty the buildings. Every flat burned coal. ( 1962)