National Poetry Day

I was invited along to the launch of the new St. Mungo's Mirrorball website today, which took place at the top of the Glasgow Science Centre tower. I've never been up it before, having a fear of spindly heights (i.e. those not firmly attached to hills or large rocks) but it seemed like too bizarre and interesting an opportunity to miss. It was really good fun, although a trifle scary, particularly as it was quite windy today and the the tower sways! So between that and the shaking of my legs it's a miracle I got any photos to come out at all...

Liz Lochhead

Liz being filmed - possibly on the STV news tonight (possibly incluing a glimpse of me trying not to look terrified...)

It's the tower!

Canting basins

Silhouettes and the Squinty Bridge.

Rain Sheep.

Sun Sheep.

Science Centre and tower from the ground.

Alison and Andrew wandered over this afternoon to visit and deal with awful amounts of photography with extremely good grace...

Botanical

Scenes from the Kibble Palace, where I'd gone to meet up with Heather to watch the fish and discuss cameras...

Some sort of blue flower (I'm very knowledgeable about these things...)

Wavy people.

One of the carp in the pond. They have lovely folding mouths and were getting stuck into some salt 'n' vinegar crisps while I was there...

Moebius ceilings

Still Life With Giant Courgette

Grown by a friend of my mother's...

Chronophage

Chronophage 1
Originally uploaded by Greg Wallis

I'm very taken by the new clock they've just aquired at Corpus Christi in Cambridge. There's a wee video where the inventor explains it all here, although it wasn't actually working just there (the video, not the clock) so try the BBC one here too...

Emily Ballou and Chris Wallace-Crabbe reading at tonight's Vital Synz event in Sloans.

New Look

I've rejigged my photography website with the aid of Lightroom 2.0 and LRB Portfolio. Do have a look and see if you are more encouraged to hire me to photograph yourself/your family/your musicians/your poets...