Since moving to the Southside of Glasgow I’ve always cast a sad and longing eye at the disused bandstand in Queens’ Park. I live a stones throw from the Victoria Road gate of Queen’s Park and therefore two stones throws from the bandstand. It’s not a grand Victorian structure or much more than a dent in the landscape but it has the potential for some fun and it would be great to see it spring to life. So, I was delighted to hear that the Community Councils and Glasgow City Council are doing something about it and a competition of designers and architects has chosen a structure to re-launch the bandstand. Here’s the winner.
As a bit of an homage to the bandstand I popped down there this morning and did an ambient sound recording. At 5.30-6am I was in the company of various birds, lots of squirrels and even more rabbits. I was probably a bit late for the main dawn chorus but even so there was a fair few birds doing their thing.
Bandstand, Queens Park, Glasgow, 6am, 3 June ’10 by timjnunn
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Here’s hoping the bandstand gets going properly and a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who is putting effort into making that happen.
I absolutely love your photo of Queen’s Park simply because I’m from Glasgow and most of my childhood summers were spent in that park. I was just wondering what software you used to edit your photo the way you did because I’ve been looking for software that does that and I can’t find it anywhere.
Thanks,
Laura
Hi
Glad you like the pic – Queen’s Park is a great place.
I hope this won’t disappoint too much but the pic was taken with the Hipstamatic app on an iPhone. I’m afraid there was no other software involved nor secrets to share. More info here: http://hipstamaticapp.com/. I just had a quick look for filters or packages that might do a similar thing and there are a few things going on, like this: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24315589-Hipstamatic-Effect-Photoshop-Plugin
Good luck!
TIm