Spotted in Newcastle.
Answers to … who knows…?
For Becky’s #SimplyRed.
Tag: Newcastle
A Bit of a Bench in Newcastle
That sheep is helping raise awareness of – and funds for – St. Oswald’s Hospice. I think the chap on the bench doesn’t know what to make of it.
For Jude’s Bench Challenge.
And Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Monotone.
Moving Forward?
If you’re hoping to put your Best Foot Forward, it’s best to have a plan, or study a map first.
For Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge, she’s inviting us to post square – only square – photos on the themes of Burgeoning; Moving Forward; Reconstruction; or Renewal
Ah … What if?
If you look at this girder in a certain light, it looks slightly orange. Maybe. But I just wanted to find an excuse to post this photo: almost the only one I took in colour on our Newcastle sortie the other day.
For Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Orange.
Wild(ish) life in the city
Our day in Newcastle earlier this week wasn’t just about people-watching. We’d come to walk the banks of the Tyne, weaving back and forth over at least some of its seven bridges. Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the scenes we saw.
This is what those pigeons in the header photo were looking for.
This young herring gull was inspecting me as I inspected him. He was tucked behind a railing just beyond that first planter.
We wandered onto the Swing Bridge, which luckily didn’t want to open to allow river traffic through. Its elderly wooden jetties provided the perfect resting place for gangs of pigeons.
Then we walked down this walkway, for another view of the Millennium Bridge …
… but one of our views of the Sage was reflected in a nearby office window.
We didn’t really see any more wildlife. Unless this counts.
I’ll see if I’m allowed to sneak both the pigeons and the herring gull into I. J. Khanewala’s Bird of the Week.
Faces in a Crowd
On Tuesday, Country Mouse (me) went to the Big City (Newcastle). Big cities are busy, full of life, of people. And that’s why I was there. A friend in my fairly-newly-joined photographic club had offered to take me in hand, get me over my diffidence in photographing people I don’t know, and communicate as well his affection for black-and-white photography. Newcastle was the place to go.
We started in the station. We walked along the banks of the Tyne. We criss-crossed several of the seven – yes seven – bridges spanning the river between Newcastle and Gateshead. The shots we took there are for another day.
We took pictures of bridges, buildings, windows, shadows, gulls, pigeons, statues, rotting wood, city swank and urban decay. And we took shots of people click on any image to see it full-size.
It occurred to me that I might get away with offering these for John’s Lens Artists Challenge: Faces in a Crowd.
Snapshot Saturday: Reflecting in Gateshead
Reflections seem generally to be below us – in water.
Or to the side of us – in plate glass windows.
So I was rather taken by these reflections of visitors to the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. Above us.
Snapshot Saturday: a Good Match for Newcastle and the River Tyne
We were in Newcastle last weekend, and we spent much of our time admiring the fine buildings of the city centre, and mooching about the Quayside. That Millennium Bridge! What a perfect match for its surroundings. It links the proud Victorian architecture of Newcastle with contemporary work housed in the Baltic Centre just on the Gateshead bank of the River Tyne. Its clean soaring parabola provides a perfect complement to the more long established city bridges.
‘The bridges over the Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead are justifiably famous. They are not merely bridges, but icons for the North East. Over the years the single (Georgian) bridge existing in the early Victorian period has been joined by six others. First the High Level Bridge, giving the river its first railway crossing, then the Swing Bridge (replacing the Georgian bridge), and the first Redheugh Bridge, replaced twice, to be followed by the King Edward Bridge and the most famous of them all, the new Tyne Bridge. After many decades came the Queen Elizabeth Metro Bridge and finally, in 2001, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge opened to provide a stunning pedestrian and cycle link between the redeveloped quaysides on either side of the river. In the space of less than a mile seven bridges link Newcastle with Gateshead.’
From ‘Welcome to Bridges on the Tyne‘
The Baltic Centre and the Millennium Bridge.
The Tyne Bridge seem from the Millennium Bridge.
Dusk at the Baltic Centre.
The Tyne Bridge, the Baltic Centre and the Millennium Bridge.
Looking along the Tyne from the Baltic Centre.
A response to this week’s WordPress Photo challenge, ‘A good match‘.
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