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Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square is beautifully decorated with netted lights.There's such a magical atmospshere in the city at Christmas :-)
Traffic cone, not just a joke.... it`s a tradition
Capping the statue with a traffic cone has become a traditional practice in the city, claimed to represent the humour of the local population and believed to date back to the first half of the 1980s, if not before.
(Wikipedia)
Standing in Royal Exchange Square, just behind the Gallery of Modern Art, looking towards a building with "Glaschu" emblazoned on it, the Gaelic term for the city of Glasgow.
two cones and a cut out of Lewis Capaldi currently adorn the Duke of Wellington statue in Royal Exchange Square
Glasgow - May 2019
Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord, the building has undergone a series of different uses.
In 1954, Glasgow District Libraries moved the Stirling's Library into the building. When the library returned to Miller Street, the building was refurbished to house the city's contemporary art collection.
Exhibits include works by David Hockney, Sebastiao Salgado, and Andy Warhol as well as Scottish artists such as John Bellany and Ken Currie.
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Technical Bit: Three frames stitched together and a little tweak with Transform tool to improve the distortion. Looks awesome in full size about 8000 pixels wide. But your not seeing that.
About the Subject : Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord, the building has undergone a series of different uses.
Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow city centre. I think it's a beautiful structure and one of my favorites in Glasgow (although that's a short list). Detracting from the impressive architecture is the usual cone atop the Duke of Wellington statue (see note). This traffic cone has been a staple of Glasgow for as long as I've been alive, has notoriety throughout the UK, embodies the West of Scotland, and even has its own Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Statue,_Glasgow. Glasgow isn't the capital of Scotland, but it is the NED capital of the planet.
This image is comprised of two 30-second frames stitched together to provide a square crop. There is more processing than my usual practice on this one. The conditions were poor but I still felt like the image was worth saving.
5DII + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL + BW ND110
A good old rain shower during my visit to Glasgow, yesterday!
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The equestrian Wellington Statue, most often featured with a traffic cone on its head, on Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the city's most iconic images.
Duke of Wellington in Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square wearing his customary traffic cone lol. Hope you all have a great week leading up to Christmas, and don't get too frazzled with last minute preparations! :-)
In a bid to reduce the cost of removing traffic cones from the statue, alleged to be £10,000 a year, Glasgow City Council put forward plans in November 2013 to double the height of its plinth as part of a £65,000 restoration project. The plans were withdrawn after widespread public opposition, spearheaded by a Facebook campaign called "Keep the Cone" (that accumulated more than 72,000 likes within 24 hours) started by Scottish musician Raymond Hackland and Glaswegian photographer Steven Allan. An online petition defending the cone received over 10,000 signatures. As the council indicated that action against the practice could still be considered, National Collective organised a rally in defence of the cone.
The Duke of Wellington and his cone hat are situated outside the Gallery of Modern art in Queen Street Glasgow.
The cone atop the statue was placed there many years ago by drunken students one evening and has become part of Glasgow folklore. The city council have tried to remove it over the years but as if by magic withion a short time it re-appears.
(Or something.)
From Wikipedia:
"At the Queen Street entrance there is a statue of Duke of Wellington which usually has a traffic cone placed on his head. This was originally a joke by youngsters, but it is now encouraged by the public to leave the cone intact. The statue has become a representation of simple Glaswegian humour and is favoured by many citizens and tourists who have seen it. However, some tourists have conveyed disappointment upon visiting the statue to discover that the cone has been taken down."
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The Duke of Wellington statue with the usual traffic cone on his head, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow. #royalexchangesquare #dukeofwellington #dukeofwellingtonstatue #dukeofwellingtonglasgow #statue #statues #statuesofinstagram #glasgow #goma #galleryofmodernartglasgow #shadow #shadows #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre #glasgow850
Glasgow has invested in (June 2017) two CityTrees, these have been installed on Royal Exchange Square and Killermont Street and will remain in place until Dec 2018. The CityTrees contain a plant mixture of mosses and vascular plants which provide environmental benefits and introduce additional "greening" into the city centre. Quoted from the Glasgow City Council website.
This is Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) with a most impressive display of Christmas lights both on the trees, and the sheets above Royal Exchange Square on each side.
But even more impressive than that: a very rare picture of the statue of the Duke of Wellington without its obligatory irreverent adornment of the traffic cone.
Yes, it really was Santa! Yesterday, I came across a little protest going on. Santa was making a quite protest in relation to abuse against children! Good cause and well done, Santa!
The police were shouting up to him but I believe he was allowed to sit up there on the Duke of Wellington for a little while. The Duke has "worn" that traffic cone for a long, long time and has become quite iconic in Glasgow city>
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Next to the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square in the pouring rain. A vertorama of 3 shots
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Architect: Archibald Elliott II, 1827, modelled on the Erechtheum in Athens.
One of the many fine banking halls the Royal Bank of Scotland has discarded.
A shot of the net of lights that spans either side of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow city centre to the buildings on either side of the pedestrianised streets nearby. I liked how the light in the image reflected off the wet pavement, as it'd been raining lightly for some time before this shot.
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), housed in an iconic building located in the heart of Glasgow, which it shares with the city centre library. GoMA plays an important part in the city’s rich heritage.
The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland.
Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord, the building has undergone a series of different uses.