Loud, brash and self-confident. I love Newcastle. It is also a photographer’s dream. Dotted throughout the city are architectural gems. And a stroll through the city centre along the Tyne, with its glorious succession of bridges, each framing the next, and both banks framed by striking buildings, Victorian to postmodern, is a visual feast. I was in Newcastle most recently to take part in the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival discussion on Rethinking Civilisations at the Sage Gateshead. I had, unfortunately too little time to spend in the city, but I managed a little walk in the city centre along the river, on a wet evening and a sunny morning. These are more snapshots than properly-composed photos, but they give a sense of the beauty of the walk along the Tyne, and over the Millennium Bridge to the Sage.
Where/what’s the first image?
I recognise all the rest! 🙂
It’s the blue railway bridge (the one furthest from the city centre) reflected in a pool of water on the Causeway.
I love Newcastle too. It has the sort of resilient architecture that looks sublime no matter what the weather. Which is probably just as well.
I wrote a little meditation on the High Level Bridge a few years ago…
https://conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/amorous-padlocks-on-the-high-level-bridge/
Mathematics, engineering and artistic beauty.
It really is a great walk. I walked coast-to-coast along Hadrian’s Wall from Tynemouth some years ago, and still have vivid memories of that stretch of river.