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Nov 15 2016
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Guys up the pylon

Tuesday 15th November 2016, 8.45am (day 1,909)

Pylon workers, 15/11/16

The line of pylons that reaches over the railway line around Mills Hill station has of late been the subject of building works, as seen here. So this photo fits itself into two vague categories of picture that I have been nurturing recently: blokes high up doing their jobs (like this one) and pictures of power installations taken at high speed from trains, as depicted last week. Do pylons count as ‘architecture’ (a more formal category of picture on this site)? Yes, I think they should. They dominate the landscape as much as any other engineered structure.

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Nov 14 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Senate House Passage, Cambridge

Monday 14th November 2016, 3.55pm (day 1,908)

Senate House passage, 14/11/16

Having never been to Cambridge in my life until January this year, it’s a definite discovery of 2016. I returned today for a seminar and will be back there in a fortnight, too. Parts of it are as beautiful as anywhere I have ever been, like a fairytale almost, particularly with the golden leaves of autumn. This picture depicts none of that, but I like it anyway; most of the place seems to look something like this, including all the bicycles.

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Nov 13 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Outside King’s Cross

Sunday 13th November 2016, 8.10pm (day 1,907)

Outside King's Cross, 13/11/16

I try to keep this blog apolitical, but it’s not always easy. I was educated into the idea that we were making steady progress toward some better future. In 2016 that is a view of the world that, at best, has taken a severe blow. But at least someone is here with this guy.

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Nov 13 2016
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Leeks in the garden

Saturday 12th November 2016, 10.45am (day 1,906)

Leek leaves, 12/11/16

The leeks have grown way better this year than in any previous year. We could say it’s the good weather — and it continues to be mild and pleasant, Wednesday’s sprinkling of snow notwithstanding — but actually I reckon it’s the discovery of ‘Baby Bio’ fertiliser. Which probably means these no longer count as ‘organic’, but what the hell, the one we ate this evening was very tasty. Not that you eat these bits of the plant, however.

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Nov 12 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Princess Street

Friday 11th November 2016, 9.10am (day 1,905)

Princess Street, 11/11/16

Well, I did say a few days back that there were likely to be a lot of Manchester urban scenes over the next few weeks, as that’s where I’ll be spending most of my time. Got to work now and again, I suppose. It’s an attractive enough city, at least, the bits I walk through are.

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Nov 10 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Campus masterplan

Thursday 10th November 2016, 9.15am (day 1,904)

Campus works, 10/11/16

As I’ve been saying for some years now it’s hard to point a camera anywhere in Manchester and not have a decent chance of capturing a building site. This particular one is being initiated by my employers at the University  as the final piece (for now) in the “£1bn Campus Masterplan” as we must learn to call it. A massive new engineering building will rise here over the next couple of years, unless the whole economy tanks in the mean time of course. Which does not look as distant a project as it did a year ago.

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Nov 09 2016
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The first snow

Wednesday 9th November 2016, 8.05am (day 1,903)

First snow, 9/11/16

The first snow comes to Hebden Bridge only 194 days, or 6 months and 10 days, after the last snow (29th April).

Winter is coming… In more ways than one, I fear.

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Nov 09 2016
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Hebden Bridge

Weeping willow

Tuesday 8th November 2016, 10.45pm (day 1,902)

Weeping willow, 8/11/16

This weeping willow stands at one end of the 16th century bridge over the Hebden Water after which my home town is named (viz, Hebden Bridge). It has featured in the background or periphery of several photos before, but today I make it the prime subject, thanks to the late night street lighting and the sleet which was barrelling out of a damp grey sky on the way home (see tomorrow’s picture…).

To prove I occasionally still — but only occasionally — have nights out, this is the latest shot in any given night out since my 3am aberration on 9th Jan 2016, and the latest shot in a calendar day since, embarrassingly perhaps, 15th November 2014.

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Nov 09 2016
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Samuel Alexander Building

Monday 7th November 2016, 9.10am (day 1,901)

Sam Alex building, 7/11/16

Apologies for the delay in posting. Mac fell into a coma on Monday morning. But some TLC from the Genius Bar has restored it to full health. Back on Monday, it was another lovely day in Manchester. Here’s the relatively monumental Sam Alex building (as most people on campus call it), named after a former professor of Philosophy at this august institution. I like the rim-lit shadowy figure to the right.

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Nov 06 2016
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Old Gate at night

Sunday 6th November 2016, 6.10pm (day 1,900)

Old Gate, 6/11/16

Of course, it’s around this time of year that it becomes not only easier, but more obligatory, to take photos in the hours of darkness — because there’s just that much more darkness around. On top of that today was a day spent mostly working at home (yes, I know it’s Sunday, but I’m busy)… so not much opportunity for anything exciting. I like this shot because it’s sharp, not always easy without using a flash, and the general gold-and-black colour scheme.

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