Category Archives: Portrait

Oct 27 2026
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Daily Post, Family Member, Friend, Portrait

Clare’s 50th birthday crew

Monday 26th October 2026, 4.55pm (day 5,541)

Clare's 50th crew, 26/10/26

In the 15 years and 2 months that this blog has been running, the Hebden Bridge Picture House has appeared plenty of times. It’s therefore not hard to deduce that Clare and I both spend a decent amount of time here, her particularly, and so it seemed more than appropriate to hire the place out for today’s occasion — that being, her birthday, and not just any birthday, but one of those with a zero at the end of it. The movie was High Fidelity. The celebrations, enjoyable, and always good to share them with friends and family. For once I am breaking the rule that photos on here are unstaged. Happy birthday!

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Oct 15 2026
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Working on campus

Wednesday 14th October 2026, 11.35am (day 5,529)

On campus, 14/10/26

Some photos just have to be taken. I don’t think she could have posed, or been lit, better if I’d tried for these things deliberately. Always, there is the recycling bin in the way — though I suppose here I can live with it. Yes, it was a very nice day, I was tempted to sit and work outside as well.

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Oct 14 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

Scoreboard duties

Tuesday 13th October 2026, 8.10pm (day 5,528)

FCUM scoreboard, 13/10/26

FC United of Manchester like to think themselves a sort of throwback to a more soulful and authentic era of football and, being honest, this is not an entirely fanciful self-image. Certainly they never worried about installing some fancy electronic scoreboard gizmo in their otherwise well-appointed Broadhurst Park ground. Does the operator get in for free I wonder? She only had a couple of bouts of activity: the final score was FCUM 1-1 Emley on this mild Tuesday evening.

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Oct 09 2026
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Waiting in rimlight

Thursday 8th October 2026, 8.25am (day 5,523)

Station rimlight, 8/10/26

The 8:10 to Wigan Wallgate, via Manchester, decided not to bother this morning so there was plenty of time to appreciate the light pouring down the tracks and platforms: everything positioned just so at 8:25am. In fact the person depicted here had lifted their head a little, a moment before I pressed the shutter, so the full rimlight-and-red-hair experience was not forthcoming, but never mind, it has still mostly worked.

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Oct 04 2026
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Brian

Friday 2nd October 2026, 9.15pm (day 5,517)

Brian, 2/10/26

One of those Fridays that drifts through a day of working at home, then I find myself in the pub as usual, and it’s well into the evening before I start wondering whether I do, or do not, have a decent photo of anything at all. And, it turns out, I don’t. So this one will have to do, as it sums up this gentleman to some extent, and his ‘oldest swinger in town’ demeanour. But classy portrait photography this is not, I admit.

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Sep 24 2026
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Todmorden station, early (too goddamn early)

Wednesday 23rd September 2026, 7.30am (day 5,508)

At Tod, early, 23/9/26

I talked to a fellow commuter, someone I have been seeing at the station now and again for twenty years, on the journey home today. He observed that the one good thing to come out of lockdowns (2020, 2021, you were there too I’m sure) was that they made both employers and employees realise that working-from-home was feasible. Of course this doesn’t apply to every job but it does to many, like his: and mine too, though I was doing plenty of WFH even before this.

But on the other hand sometimes one just has to be there at 9am and lump it. Today was one of those days. And when that happens everyone on the train looks like this. At least it wasn’t standing room only.

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Sep 14 2026
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Joe in “The Family of Man”

Sunday 13th September 2026, 12.15pm (day 5,498)

Joe in Family of Man, 13/9/26

“The Family of Man” is a famous photography exhibition featuring more than 500 prints that was first shown in New York in 1955 and toured the world. It is now preserved in Luxembourg because it is the birthplace of the original curator, Edward Steichen and resides in Clervaux Castle in the north of the country (which is not all that far from the capital in the south of the country, this not being a very big place). Well worth a visit, and I am being a little mean to Joe here by using a picture of him yawning: he wants me to note that this is unrepresentative of his actual reaction.

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Sep 10 2026
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Eurostar collage

Thursday 10th September 2026, 1.25pm (day 5,495)

Eurostar family portrait, 10/9/26

Another railway station — but it’s been a long journey. Either this one is a complete mess or it is an interesting collage taken through the window of the Eurostar as it passed through Lille Europa. We traversed four countries today, with France being the only one which we did not touch soil at some point, but nevertheless, it can provide today’s shot. On the left, Joe, coming on holiday with his old folks for the first time in years. Where we are going, you can find out tomorrow.

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Sep 06 2026
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Newly formed family

Saturday 5th September 2026, 1.50pm (day 5,490)

Down aisle with dog, 5/9/26

Congratulations to my cousin, Dave Hall, the good-looking chap on the right (but you knew that) whose marriage to Abby brings together a gaggle of existing offspring, including Padfoot the dog: he was dressed in his tux too (not very apparent here) but, no, was not up front for the whole ceremony. He came back down the aisle with them though, and was just as happy about the experience as everyone else.

In fact after this day I am starting to think that there haven’t been enough weddings depicted on this blog. Like all ceremonies and celebrations there are reasons we have developed the rituals and the whole day was certainly a good way of affirming a bonding of two things — families — that were not bonded before, and of publicly committing to it. I’m in.

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Sep 05 2026
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Diamond, dog

Friday 4th September 2026, 5.45pm (day 5,489)

Diamond, 4/9/26

Diamond is as much part of the Railway pack as anyone, whether human or canine. She’s getting old now, as you can tell, so is not out as often as she might be — something that will come to be the case for all of us, in time, I am sure.

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