Tag Archives: photography

Nov 26 2023
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

On York Minster

Saturday 25th November 2023, 2.55pm (day 4,475)

York Minster, 25/11/23

On the tourist trail today, and boy were there a lot of them, or should I say us. People everywhere, cramming the narrow streets of York, maybe they were enjoying themselves or maybe they were just participating, robot-like in the early stages of the now-mandated 7-week Thou Shalt Shop And Wear Silly Jumpers period: a reminder to some, there’s a whole month yet before Christmas Day. Anyway, this included walking past the Minster, as one does in York, and taking pictures of the people taking pictures — surely I appear on the shots captured by the woman in the red hat and the guy two places to her left.

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Nov 25 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Birchcliffe Road

Friday 24th November 2023, 12.45pm (day 4,474)

Birchcliffe Road, 24/11/23

A bright day, but cold. This was a shot where, contrary to almost all other occasions, I actually wanted a car to come past. The wire annoys, but only a little.

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Nov 23 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger, Transport

The morning cattle truck, at Rochdale

Thursday 23rd November 2023, 9.00am (day 4,473)

Rochdale, busy train, 23/11/23

Not only did this peak hour train turn up with half the usual number of carriages, thus assigning itself instant CTS (Cattle Truck Status) — but it was also 23 minutes late at this point, being scheduled to pass through Rochdale at 8.37. Grin and bear it? Bollocks to that, I wasn’t grinning at this point, put it that way.

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Nov 23 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Bus stop

Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 4.50pm (day 4,472)

Bus stop, 22/11/23

It is, of course, wholly dark by 4.50pm at this time of year. Scant weeks ago this guy would have been waiting for his bus home in balmy sunshine. But so it is for all of us.

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Nov 21 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

Dinner: early start

Tuesday 21st November 2023, 2.25pm (day 4,471)

Cooking pot, 21/11/23

Enmeshed in the first major bout of marking of the year, today was the first day for quite a while where I never left the house, so you weren’t getting anything unusual. Dinner wasn’t eaten until 8pm, so this was a definite slow cook, but this particular recipe needs time. And plenty of herbs.

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Nov 21 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Cardiff station frontage

Monday 20th November 2023, 10.35am (day 4,470)

Cardiff station, 20/11/23

After a few weekends recently which have ended on a Monday morning at King’s Cross station — like this one, say — a weekend that, instead, ended on a Monday morning at Cardiff Central station. At least I managed to get on the first truly punctual public transport service experienced since leaving home on Friday morning. I like how the light falls on this one: this is not direct sunlight, instead it is being reflected off the facade of the BBC building across the plaza, behind me.

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Nov 20 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

On Garth Hill

Sunday 19th November 2023, 11.45am (day 4,469)

Garth Hill chair

I did get better pictures today but none which epitomised the day quite so well. Garth Hill became County Top #2 of the weekend, but the weather on its summit was, to coin a phrase, utter shite. What this chair was doing up there I have no idea but perhaps it had just been blown there from someone’s garden half a mile away. For the full tale of woe see my other blog.

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Nov 18 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

The Cardiff Bay barrage

Saturday 18th November 2023, 11.35am (day 4,468)

The Cardiff Bay barrage was built in the 1990s, at huge expense, specifically to get rid of what were perceived as unattractive mudflats, and thus prepare the land for colonisation by the Great God Commerce: which seems to have subsequently taken place. It’s not an unattractive piece of engineering, I guess. Out there is the island of Flat Holm, which still counts as Wales, so this isn’t another shot that depicts the land of more than one country. (There have been three of these: two with England and Wales (both around the Dee Estuary), and one with England and France.)

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Nov 18 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

The old mine, above Blaenavon

Friday 17th November 2023, 2.50pm (day 4,467)

Old mine, 17/11/23

Sometimes you just stumble across places. This old, ruined mine sits above Blaenavon in the south Wales valleys; I found it while bagging my latest County Top. I would argue it was not only the most interesting but also the most attractive thing about the day. There have been points of time in the past where something like a quarter of the iron and steel production of the entire world was based around south Wales. Believable as that stat is, this is what’s left.

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Nov 17 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

My portion of the meeting

Thursday 16th November 2023, 12.20pm (day 4,466)

Meeting flipchart, 16/11/23

Look, it’s got my name on it (on the pink bit), my handwriting and everything. The ideas were those of everyone around the table however, and things are not yet finished, either. I can occasionally still be motivated to think about things that matter to my employer — and thus my students — rather than me personally.

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