Getting familiar with flying a drone has been really useful for certain projects and although I like to use wide angle lenses at ground level, for architectural photography, it is exciting to be able to capture projects against the backdrop of a city or landscape, and to be able to get a birds eye take on photography.

Stockingfield Junction in Glasgow’s Maryhill area is both striking and transformative in its design connecting active travel paths between the 3 areas – Maryhill, Gilsochill and Ruchill over the Forth and Clyde Canal. 

Scottish Canals and Sustrans delivered the project with Balfour Beatty as contractor and engineering designer and having opened back in 2022 the collaborative nature seems to have worked well with people and landscape coming together with open space around the bridge creating a place and landmark, and what looks like a great arts strategy evolving with artists and local communities. 

Glasgow is a wonderful city, and its a pleasure to see areas like this change  – the accessibility through Maryhill from here to the recently repurposed nature reserve environment around the Claypits at the other end of Maryhill, and the wider canal network through the city shows a great level of ambition for North Glasgow and transforming the Canalside into an attractive and peaceful stretch of nature within the city. What is not to like!

I’ve located to Edinburgh ( a blog post for another time maybe ) but am regularly with both work and family in Glasgow which will always be close to my heart; here a short distance from my previous home, so it’s been great to revisit and see the completed project. I knew that the early evening sunlight would be a good time of day for this and got lucky with the lighting on a couple of occasions. The design seems to embrace the views out into the setting sun from the observation deck.