Today I met Alex in Glasgow and we went for a walk in the sunshine. Later we came back in the teeming rain. That’s Scotland.
Yesterday the weather was beautiful and today it was the same in the morning, but after we got off the bus to go to the Burrell Collection, we could feel the first spits of rain. By the time we got in and went for lunch the rain was getting heavy.
Today was a return visit to the Burrell. We’d seen most of the exhibits before, but there were lots of surprises too, like a tiny ceramic perfume bottle from circa 500BC and a Renoir bust of the man with the broken nose which had a tiny little signature in the inside of the hollow casting. It’s the little things you go back to see again and again.
My intention today was to take people pictures. One of the great things about this tele lens is the way it can separate a person from the background and I was playing with that a lot. The other thing that I tried was isolating people in the long corridors that almost always have a focal point at their far end. The weather might have been terrible, but we were inside and dry and we both had a great day.
Back home on the bus I listened to a podcast about Ramesses The Great. What a lad he was if all the stories were true. The average lifespan of Egyptians then was about 30 years. He lived until he was 80! The world was just as ill divided then, it seems.
Watched the Professionals doing Bakeoff and Scamp and I were agreed that the best pair won.
PoD was called Twa Dugs. Taken on the steps of the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. I think there may be more to come from today’s shoot, though.
Things I’ll remember from today:
- Lunch today in a mobbed cafe are in the Burrell (New Yorker).
- Seeing that 500BC perfume bottle
- The Twa Dugs
- Girl in Nero chattering away nonstop to us
- Maybe, just maybe seeing Charles Hamilton
We may be going shopping for essentials tomorrow.