Glow Scotland

October 19th, 2011

Glow Light images needed - please send us your pictures

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Have you been admiring the images on the Glow Light interface? If you have (or if you think they could be even better) this is your chance. You can provide the picture for Glow Light for the whole country to see. The picture might be of a well known local landmark, a local event or even a piece of pupil’s work. How you choose the image is for you to decide.

Please ensure that you put in the name of your authority, school (where appropriate) and contact details in case we need to ask you for more information.

Please upload your pictures to the Picture Library at least a week before the date it is due to go onto Glow Light. We cannot guarantee that your image will be used but we will use as many as possible.

July 3rd, 2011

Glow Light Image 4.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Monteray

The Glow Light image has gone on holiday!

This picture was taken on the Monterey Peninsula, California.

Image: Lesley Dickson

June 28th, 2011

Glow Light Image 27.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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West Lothian Council

Julia is in P5 at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary in West Lothian, her teacher says that she loves Glow and regularly post to the class and school blog and uploads pictures to her class page. She completes her spelling and maths homework in Glow and emails Glow challenges to her teacher.

On a Sunday Julia can’t wait to see what the Glow Light picture will be and she decided to design her own Glow Light image after Health week in school.

June 19th, 2011

Glow Light Image 20.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Each week, as a reward for good behaviour, pupils at Greengairs Primary, North Lanarkshire, are offered opportunities to participate in a wide variety of activities. Amongst these is a photography club. Older pupils support younger children and they enjoy capturing images from around the school environment. On a typical spring day when sunshine followed a shower of rain the children went outdoors to practice their skills in the school grounds. Nicholas S, P3, noticed that raindrops were lying on the leaves of plant and used the zoom facility on his camera to get this close-up shot. He was delighted with the photograph when he downloaded it. With the encouragement of his teacher he decided to enter it into the competition organised for North Lanarkshire pupils to submit images for the Glow Light screen.

Image: Nicholas S., P3 Greengairs Primary School/Text: Donna Scott, Greengairs Primary School

June 12th, 2011

Glow Light Image 13.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Dressing Table

This week’s image is one of the winners in a competition held by North Lanarkshire Council to select their images for Glow Light. It was created by Louise Mc C. from Braidhurst High School.

This type of picture is known as a ‘still life’. A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural, food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells, or man-made, drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on. With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

In the last three decades of the 20th century, and in the early years of the 21st century still life has expanded beyond the boundary of a frame. Especially in the wake of the computer age, and the rise of Computer art and Digital art the nature and definition of still life has changed. Some mixed media still life work employing found objects, photography, video, and sound, and even spilling out from ceiling to floor, and filling an entire room in a gallery. Computer-generated graphics have expanded the techniques available to still life artists. With the use of the video camera, still life artists can even incorporate the viewer into their work.

Do you think this picture was drawn by hand or was computer generated? It is so beautifully drawn it is hard to tell!

Image: Louise McC., S5 Braidhurst High School/Text: Wikipedia

June 5th, 2011

Glow Light Image 6.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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The Clyde Arc, Glasgow

This week’s image has ben supplied by North Lanarkshire Council.

It ws taken by Danielle A., S6 Braidhurst High School

The Clyde Arc (known locally as the Squinty Bridge), is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, in west central Scotland, connecting Finnieston, near the Clyde Auditorium and SECC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan. A prominent feature of the bridge is its innovative curved design and the way that it crosses the river at an angle. The Arc is the first city centre traffic crossing over the river built since the Kingston Bridge was opened to traffic in 1969.

The bridge was named the “Clyde Arc” upon its official opening on 18 September 2006. It has been previously known as the “Finnieston Bridge” or the “Squinty Bridge”.

Image: Danielle A., S6 Braidhurst High School/Text: Wikipedia

May 29th, 2011

Glow Light Image 30.5.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Stormy Sunset

Andy Garnett was runner up with his Stormy Sunset in Angus Council’s local competition for an image for Glow light.

Sunset or sundown is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon in the west as a result of Earth’s rotation.

The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment the trailing edge of the Sun’s disk disappears below the horizon in the west. The ray path of light from the setting Sun is highly distorted near the horizon because of atmospheric refraction, making astronomical sunset occur when the Sun’s disk is already about one diameter below the horizon. Sunset is distinct from dusk, which is the moment at which darkness falls, which occurs when the Sun is approximately eighteen degrees below the horizon. The period between the astronomical sunset and dusk is called twilight.

Locations north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle experience no sunset or sunrise at least one day of the year, when the polar day or the polar night persist continuously for 24 hours.

Sunset creates unique atmospheric conditions such as the often intense orange and red colors of the Sun and the surrounding sky.

Image: Andy Garnett Angus Coucil/Text: Wikipedia.

May 22nd, 2011

Glow Light Image 23.5.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Still Waters

This week’s image was taken by Kyle, an S3 pupil at Wellington Special School, in Edinburgh. The school photography club went up Flotterstone path in the Pentland Hills. Reaching Glencorse Reservoir, Kyle commented on how still the water was and how it seemed to be ‘made of glass’. His photograph was the winning entry in the special school category of the Glow Light competition organised by the Edinburgh Glow team.

The Pentland Hills Regional Park is a living, working landscape, which offers great opportunities to experience and enjoy the outdoors. With approximately 10,000 hectares of countryside and over 100km of paths, the Pentland Hills are a great place to come walking, biking, horse riding as well as fishing.

Outdoor Learning is an important approach in the new Curriculum for Excellence. The Pentland Hills Ranger Service can provide opportunities for schools to participate in enjoyable, active and challenging activities in an outdoor setting which contributes to delivering the Curriculum for Excellence. Curriculum areas include Social Studies, Sciences and Health & Wellbeing. If you would like to know more about what they can offer then please contact the Ranger Service for more information.

Pentland Hills Ranger Service
Regional Park Headquarters
Boghall Farm
Biggar Road
Edinburgh
EH10 7DX
Tel: 0131 445 3383
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site:www.pentlandhills.org.uk

Text Pentland Hills Ranger Service website.

May 15th, 2011

Glow Light Image 16.5.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Trees & Daffodils

This week’s image was taken by Kelly, an S5 pupil at Tynecastle High School in Edinburgh. Kelly said “I was returning home from a course at college and saw the light coming through the trees and thought it would make a good photo”. Her photograph was the winning entry in the secondary school category of the Glow Light competition organised by the Edinburgh Glow team. Originally taken in portrait, it has been cropped for Glow Light.

Harrison Park is a small urban park in Edinburgh, which is well cared for and valued by local people. The park sits alongside the Union Canal, which provides a valuable wildlife corridor in the area.

In 2008 Harrison Park was awarded Green Flag status – one of the first flags issued in Scotland. The scheme aims to encourage safe, clean and accessible public parks which are managed in an environmentally sustainable way.

History of the Park

The eastern part of Harrison Park first came under control of the Corporation in 1886 with a 15 year feu of 13.92 acres from George Watson’s Hospital plus an additional 1.375 acres were feued in 1902 for a bowling green and playground. The park is split in two by Harrison Road, with a playground and football pitches on the east side.

The western portion was purchased for £10,000 from the Merchant Company Education Board on 15 May 1930.

In 2000, North Merchiston Boys Club requested outline planning permission from Edinburgh Council to demolish their current facilities, erect private flats on the premises and build a new sports centre on open parts of the park. Following a campaign from residents surrounding the park, the application was refused. The council then carried out a consultation with surrounding residents and stake holders and came up with a development plan. This resulted in the old bowling green and the tennis courts being removed and turned over to grass.

Text on Harrison Park came from the Friends of Harrison Park website, http://www.harrisonpark.org.uk/, who gave use permission to use any of the text on their website.

May 8th, 2011

Glow Light Image 9.5.2011

Lesley Dickson

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Bee in Flight

This fantastic photograph is one of three winning entries in Edinburgh’s Glow Light competition. It was taken by Iona, P7, St Mary’s RC Primary. Iona is a member of St Mary’s RC Primary Photography Club. She tells us:

“I was standing with my camera for a long time taking photos of the bees until I finally got one in focus.”

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.

Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.

Bees have a long proboscis (a complex “tongue”) that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have antennae almost universally made up of 13 segments in males and 12 in females, as is typical for the superfamily. Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the smaller of the two; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless.

The smallest bee is Trigona minima, a stingless bee whose workers are about 2.1 mm (5/64″) long. The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, a leafcutter bee whose females can attain a length of 39 mm (1.5″). Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee. Human management of this species is known as beekeeping or apiculture.

Image: Iona, P7, St Mary’s RC Primary, Edinburgh/Text: Wikipedia