Monday 4th May 2015, 5.55pm (day 1,348)
That’s the nice thing about this commitment to record the everyday. Sometimes your basic wall will just turn up and surprise you.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Urban scene
Walking home
Thursday 30th April 2015, 4.10pm (day 1,344)
I was sat in the same room, a single meeting, for 7 hours today (bar toilet breaks) so you were lucky that a scene on the way back to the station distracted me.
Finishing off the National Graphene Institute
Monday 27th April 2015, 9.45am (day 1,341)
If it’s Monday, it is usually Manchester. I have three routes from station to office, and two of them pass this building, which is still being finished off. So it is likely to make more appearances on the blog yet (after having last appeared here, back in November).
Outside the NFM
Tuesday 21st April 2015, 8.50am (day 1,335)
As I try to keep cranking up the creativity levels on days that otherwise mundane and work-filled, it helps if a) the light is right (continued glorious weather throughout the UK) and b) someone walks across the shot at just the right moment.
(Note also how the Co-operative Group have subliminally got their branding into the picture.)
Ferris Wheel, outside University Place
Monday 20th April 2015, 4.45pm (day 1,334)
Portions of the University of Manchester campus were today turned into a temporary fairground (some might say the whole place is permanently like that, in spirit), in support, apparently, of the campaign to get students to register to vote. This Ferris wheel sat outside the University Place building all day, looking like some kid had built it from a Meccano set — you wouldn’t have got me on it. But then again this is true of all Ferris wheels. I’ll take pictures of them, not from them.
At the farmers’ market
Sunday 19th April 2015, 12.10pm (day 1,333)
Well, you can see from the labels what these guys do. And they do it very well. One of my more catatonic days today — but I shopped, and to good effect I think. One third of my way through the second thousand photos.
The weather’s changed
Sunday 12th April 2015, 2.50pm (day 1,326)
Well, it’s been a damn good run on the weather — a week in California and then 6 days at home with barely a real cloud to be seen. But today…. it changed. I guess this photographer thought there was mileage in photos of wet cobbles, too.
Waiting for the duck race
Monday 6th April 2015, 3.20pm (day 1,320)
Easter Monday, so we had the annual Duck Race down the Hebden Water. If you don’t know what that is, there is no point explaining it. This shot doesn’t do justice to the crowds watching it — but who cares, it epitomised my day, and that is the point of this blog.
Aquatic Park Pier, San Francisco
Sunday 29th March 2015, 10.35am (day 1,312)
So here I am for a week in San Francisco, surely one of the world’s best and most recognisable cities. This is one of its more neglected corners, a crumbling pier that stretches out into the Bay to the north of the city centre, with the Golden Gate Bridge behind it — one of its piers is visible in the background. As you can see, today I avoided the fog and chill for which the city is notorious. Plenty more to see yet, I hope.
Lunch break, Pararchive conference
Friday 27th March 2015, 12.55pm (day 1,310)
Another photo back at the alma mater, that is, Leeds University. I have a week away coming up though — not a new country, but a new part of it, and somewhere I find pretty cool, too. You’ll find out over the weekend — I have a 21.5 hour journey (door to door) tomorrow though.
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