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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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Nov 05 2016
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Daily Post, Landscape

View from Dove Crag’s summit

Saturday 5th November 2016, 1.20pm (day 1,899)

Dove Crag summit, 5/11/16

“This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts.” (Faithless: God is a DJ)

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Nov 04 2016
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Daily Post, Landscape

Power

Friday 4th November 2016, 8.25am (day 1,898)

Power, 4/11/16

Looked to the left between Littleborough and Smithy Bridge stations, on my train commute into Manchester, and went into a sudden spasm of photographic ecstasy. Definitely one of the better pictures I have ever taken from a train moving at full speed.

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Nov 03 2016
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Daily Post, Transport

New tram lines, St. Peter’s Square

Thursday 3rd November 2016, 9.05am (day 1,897)

Tram lines, 3/11/16

Another shot of Manchester’s slowly developing transport infrastructure — but I’m in Manchester a lot this month, so get used to it. Anyway, I like this one, particularly as I didn’t have to crop it at all, so got the symmetry just right when the shutter was pressed. A kind of ‘played for and got’ moment.

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Nov 02 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Crossing Oxford Road

Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 9.25am (day 1,896)

Crossing Oxford Road, 2/11/16

Sometimes things can improve. When I first started work at the University of Manchester in 2005 the campus was split in half by this traffic-choked urban throughway, one of the main A-roads of the whole country. It was really rather dismal. Slowly, by incremental steps, it has markedly improved, with most traffic now directed around the sides of the campus. The latest round of roadworks have now mostly gone and it is so much better than it was 11 years ago.

And another thing — there have been many reasons to be unhappy with 2016 in a global sense — but the UK’s autumn weather has not been one of them. Since mid-August it has mostly been tremendous. Same again today, for sure, a glorious autumn day.

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Nov 01 2016
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The Soil, Brick & Rubble skip

Tuesday 1st November 2016, 2.50pm (day 1,895)

Skip contents, 1/11/16

After the collapse, the clean-up continues…. I pick this shot also because I like the subtle burst of light. It was another beautiful day today, much like last year’s 1st November: but after that, came the Great Wet of late 2015. Can’t see it happening this year however; but maybe after yesterday that’s just wishful thinking.

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