About our Photo Tours
Adventures thru the Lens Photo Tours are Urban Adventures. The goal is for travelers to:
• Discover and experience a city through the eyes of a local photographer.
• Encourage the observation of new viewpoints and interesting details which might easily be overlooked.
• To improve photography technique.
• To have a more interesting experience and involvement when visiting a city.
• Have fun
Our Photographer has in-depth local knowledge, a passion for their city and for the art of photography. Photographers are carefully selected for their breadth of style and experience in either travel or photo-documentary/reportage.
So bring your camera and be prepared to walk, shoot and click.
Languages : English
Glasgow’s Donald has been a freelance Commercial Glasgow Photographer for the past twenty years. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, he works throughout the UK on various commissions, using all formats, including Digital Photographer Glasgow. Donald’s client list includes a number of blue chip companies such as Scottish Enterprise, British Gas, Abbey National, Powergen and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Donald is the author of two books, both photographs and text, published by Lochar in Scotland, showing the people and architecture of Glasgow and Edinburgh by night. ’Glasgow by Night’. Both books have been acclaimed for their photographic portrayal of Scotland’s central belt.
Some of the things you will learn:
IN SEASON: March 1 - Oct 31st
Saturday Morning:
DEPARTURE POINT: Main entrance to Glasgow City Chambers, George Square.
ENDING POINT: Glasgow School of Art
TOURS HIGH POINTS: City Chambers with its stunning marble interior, Gallery of Modern Art, Buchanan Street, The Corinthian and Glasgow School of Art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Cost: 125 € per person
Other times on request. Minimum 2 persons - 150 € per person
The interior of the City Chambers, especially the staircase of staggering magnificence, built in 1883.
The Gallery of Modern Art 1828, with its rich Graeco - Roman interior and interesting exibits. Glasgows main shopping street, Buchanan Street has many interesting buildings of architectuaral note. Charles Rennie Mackintoshs' masterpiece The Glasgow School of Art 1897.