The Edinburgh Photography Meetup Group

Getting out of town - Glasgow

Let's explore Glasgow! We'll make our way from Queen St. Station through George Square and the Merchant City to the famous Barras Markets, taking in along the way some of the artwork on the Mural Trail.

We’ll head to a pub close to the station for a drink afterwards before making our way back to Edinburgh.

Meet on the steps outside Glasgow Queen Street Station on the Dundas St. exit. There are frequent trains every hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

We have been given the opportunity to photograph inside the former Saica paper & cardboard package manufacturing factory which is the home of this year's Hidden Door Arts festival (11 - 15 June). This is an exciting and unique opportunity to take photographs inside a derelict factory that still contains much of the equipment that would have been in everyday use. It is a huge space and we will have access to much of it. The factory has been disused for some time and clearly shows signs of this - there is no heating and the floors are dirty and wet in places. It is advisable to bring tripods along as the lighting is not the best.
We have access on this day because the space is hosting the launch of TOLL, an artwork consisting of 145,652 individual 4cm-tall marks – one for each registered death in the UK in the first year of the pandemic. To help with this and to continue preparations for the main festival a number of volunteers will be in attendance to help us navigate the building.
The site is on Turnhouse Road near the Maybury casino and is readily accessed by public transport. Bus services 31, X18, N18 or the Airlink 100 all stop at Maybury Road (5 minutes walk) and services 12, 21, 22, 36, 70/71 and Skyline 400 stop at the Gyle Centre (10 - 15 mins walk). A Sunday timetable will, of course, be in operation. If you come by car there will be parking on site. Entrance in car or on foot will be via the gates by the security hut which is at the far end of the factory site, a couple of hundred metres along Turnhouse Road. We'll meet outside at the rear of the building close to the large door with the pigeon artwork. A couple of practical issues: the TOLL launch is on from 10 - 5 this day so I'm sure it will be possible for anyone who wishes to stay beyond our Meetup's 2 hour limit (1.30 - 3.30) to do so; there are no functioning toilets in the site but given the TOLL launch I expect there may be portaloos!

Edinburgh is full of tourists all taking pictures of the city's most famous landmarks and attractions. For this meeting let's put ourselves in their shoes and look at the city as a tourist would. The brief is to capture the tourist view of the city through 4 or 5 "postcard" shots. We'll meet on the High Street (Royal Mile to a tourist!) outside St. Giles' Cathedral from where we can head off in whichever direction we choose. When we meet we can decide where to convene for refreshments later.

The Project exhibition. This is the best way to contact everyone. Click attend if you want to exhibit.
If you have not already told us that you want to exhibit your pictures at the LCC with the exhibition starting 12 April, and you want to join, could you let us know ASAP? At present we have around 20 exhibitors. There is room for more.
Once we have the numbers we can make final decisions about how the exhibition will be organised. If you are not in Edinburgh but would like your pictures to be shown, please let us know, we can help. We have some new exciting ideas. The final plans will be posted in another event at the end of this week.
Some of you are not sure or don’t feel they have the confidence to submit pictures. Be rest assured that this is a very ‘gentle’ non threatening event in a welcoming environment.
We look forward to your reply.