Tag Archives: photography

Feb 25 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Halifax (and its Great Unfinished Bus Station)

Saturday 24th February 2024, 12.45pm (day 4,566)

Halifax scene, 24/2/24

Halifax town centre lies hard up against a very steep hill that mostly cuts it off very sharply. But this being Yorkshire, some buildings still manage to cling to the slopes. I imagine that safety fence is needed for various reasons.

This was not specifically a photo of the bus station, which is crowned by the scaffolded tower seen here, but it does prompt me to note that this still isn’t finished after what feels like about two years of reconstruction. The last photo of the old version of Halifax bus station was taken at the end of 2021. It’s now partly in use, admittedly, but the works are definitely still going on… it’ll be nice when it’s done, but will it ever be?

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Feb 24 2024
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Self-portrait, Friday after work

Friday 23rd February 2024, 4.15pm (day 4,565)

Albert selfie, 23/2/24

Another day of data inspection and introspection brings to an end a whole week of much the same kind of stuff, so ending it with a rather ghostly self-portrait seems appropriate. Yes, I’m in a pub (The Albert), though not drinking rum.

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Feb 23 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Data and more data

Thursday 22nd February 2024, 5.30pm (day 4,564)

Spreadsheet, 22/2/24

This picture epitomises the week, not just the day. This is what ‘research leave’ means for me, at least this time round. I could tell you what it all means but it would be out of context and take too long. If too dulled out by it all you could, like me, get annoyed by the little speck of whatever between columns F and G and try to wipe it off — but it will be there forever, at least digitally.

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Feb 22 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The Low Moor Demon, with head

Wednesday 21st February 2024, 10.25pm (day 4,563)

Low Moor statue, 21/2/24

Since I last passed this way in October, this particular piece of random art has acquired a head — and a rather demonic head it is, at least to my eyes. Impressive though. What this is, and why it sits in a yard next to Low Moor railway station, I still have no idea.

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Feb 21 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Roofer at work (for us)

Tuesday 20th February 2024, 11.00am (day 4,562)

Roofer at work, 20/2/24

A quick return to the same point in space as depicted last Thursday, but now from the other direction. One of the two guys who’ve recently been scrambling about on our roof, fifty feet up — I hope to all hell that I never have to get on it — waves his arse into our bedroom window. But such behaviour can be excused, seeing as the guttering’s finally being sorted out.

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Feb 19 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Moon over Eiffel Buildings

Monday 19th February 2024, 6.20pm (day 4,561)

Moon over Eiffel Buildings, 19/2/24

Hardly the most sumptuous shot. photographically, but it suffices to represent a day spent entirely in the local vicinity. It’s getting lighter in the evenings, as it always will at this time of year, but not yet past 6pm.

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Feb 19 2024
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

In the crowd

Sunday 18th February 2024, 3.40pm (day 4,560)

Sunday Cup crowd, 18/2/24

The FA Sunday Cup might not seem like much to the rest of the world but about 600 people turned up today at Lower Breck FC’s stadium, in Liverpool, to see one of the quarter-finals. The tension seems to be getting to this guy: he’s about to see the home team (Pineapple) go out 0-2 to the visiting Trooper team from the West Midlands, anyway.

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Feb 18 2024
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Daily Post, Transport

Haworth station

Saturday 17th February 2024, 12 noon (day 4,559)

Haworth station, 17/2/24

Anywhere in the vicinity of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and I seem to have an irresistible urge to whack on the sepia filter. It’s appropriate, at least. A steam train would have been nice to add to the shot but one’s just departed, and anyway, it would have got in the way of the nice curve of the track.

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Feb 17 2024
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Daily Post, Interior

Office idol

Friday 16th February 2024, 11.30am (day 4,558)

Office idol, 16/2/24

Students often give me gifts. Nothing major — I have never received an outright cash bribe, in case you were wondering — but things like tea, or things representative of their country somehow. I don’t solicit these, in fact I often wish they wouldn’t because I’m just doing my job. But some of them are nice and have made it into a kind of permanent residency status in my office at uni. This little idol is an example, and to my shame I can no longer remember who gave it to me or even, with any certainty, what country it is from, though it might be Indonesia.

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Feb 16 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Scaffolding: the bedroom window view

Thursday 15th February 2024, 10.40am (day 4,557)

Scaffolding, 15/2/24

Scaffolding: it’s everywhere. Just as you think it might be diminishing its spread, you look away for a moment and then it’s right on top of you. Literally, for us this morning, and for however long it takes some guys to use it to fix our leaky roof.

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