Category Archives: Urban scene

Aug 05 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Building, ever more

Friday 4th August 2023, 9.05am (day 4,362)

Another building site, 4/8/23

There seems some kind of irresistible compulsion to construct more and more tall buildings in Manchester city centre, pretty much regardless of other considerations. There were a number of blocks built around one end of Canal Street and finished just before all that lockdown rubbish kicked off in 2020, which still appear to be mostly empty; certainly none of the commercial spaces on the ground floor has ever been occupied. And yet the city has plenty of homeless people and families who I’m sure would be able to make good use of such accommodation. In the meantime, let’s just build some more: it keeps certain political interests happy, doesn’t it.

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Aug 03 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The unwanted chair

Wednesday 2nd August 2023, 12.10pm (day 4,360)

Office chair outside, 2/8/23

Campus is hardly the most exciting, nor populated, place at this time of year — somehow this object symbolises this. Or maybe it’s begun its summer migration, and got beached on the shingle. A boring shot I know, but this was a day in which all the photos I took seemed to be crap. If the sun would shine, it might help.

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Aug 02 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Parking place

Tuesday 1st August 2023, 3.30pm (day 4,359)

Van above river, 1/8/23

Hebden Bridge has its share of risky parking spaces — there’s the ‘Wing Mirror Two Inches From That 40-Tonne Truck Descending At Speed’ variety and more than a few ‘Garage Perched Precariously On Thin Pile Of Bricks (Above Terrifying Drop)’. But this is a new variety. I assume Storplan have good insurance.

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Jul 26 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The Calder at Wakefield

Tuesday 25th July 2023, 3.05pm (day 4,352)

Calder and Hepworth, 25/7/23

The River Calder is the one that runs through Hebden Bridge, and I found out today it’s actually rather longer than I have been thinking it is for the last 20 years or so. I knew it debouched into the Aire but I thought this happened not far past Brighouse: in fact it’s about twenty miles further on than that, in Castleford. Here in Wakefield the Calder (not the Aire) is a wide beast, and navigable by barges, at least if those orange things weren’t in the way. (In the background, the Hepworth Art Gallery. It was news to me that there was an art gallery in Wakefield, too.)

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Jul 24 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Dean Clough, Halifax

Monday 24th July 2023, 1.10pm (day 4,351)

Dean Clough, 24/7/23

This street has always looked something like this; although the content of the advertising boards has probably changed. I thought about making it monochrome but the red dress was too much of a temptation not to.

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Jul 23 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger, Urban scene

Busking in Bury

Saturday 22nd July 2023, 2.00pm (day 4,349)

Bury busking, 22/7/23

When the lady dropped off her coins, the busker immediately said he would play her a request: which she seemed quite happy about. I suppose this could be a shopping centre anywhere in Britain, but it happens to be Bury, to the north of Manchester.

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Jul 20 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Birchcliffe

Wednesday 19th July 2023, 1.05pm (day 4,346)

Birchcliffe, 19/7/23

Another day at home, musing on the existence of portals to other dimensions, as possibly manifesting on the Birchcliffe hillside, around the upper floor of 7 Chapel Street I reckon.

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Jun 30 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Chapel Walks, Thursday morning

Thursday 29th June 2023, 9.05am (day 4,326)

Manchester milk float, 29/6/23

Just some nicely falling light, pictured on the walk to the office in Manchester. Even without looking at the time in the heading, this can be identified as an intrinsic morning shot. I know this, because of the direction I’m walking, but you know this, because that’s a milk float: they aren’t still doing the rounds when I head back home.

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Jun 24 2023
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Daily Post, Friend, Hebden Bridge, Portrait, Urban scene

Paddy in the alley

Friday 23rd June 2023, 5.20pm (day 4,320)

Paddy in alley, 23/6/23

Another less-than-exciting week ends with a photograph of similar sort. Life is scheduled to liven up in July but in the meantime, here we still are, Hebden Bridge on a quiet Friday post-work afternoon. Going monochrome helps the interest level a little, perhaps.

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Jun 22 2023
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Urban scene

Mural by Red Chilli

Wednesday 21st June 2023, 12.40pm (day 4,318)

Red Chilli mural, 21/6/23

Another case of Someone Else’s Art feeding this blog. I assume this face does also belong to a real person; I wonder how models do actually feel about coming (literally) face-to-face with themselves now and again. I put her to the side of this shot because I also like the conjunction with the stuff in the restaurant window, and the pedestrian timed it well too. All seen on Grosvenor Street not far from my office on campus this lunchtime.

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