Tag Archives: reflection

Sep 10 2026
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Eurostar collage

Thursday 10th September 2026, 1.25pm (day 5,495)

Eurostar family portrait, 10/9/26

Another railway station — but it’s been a long journey. Either this one is a complete mess or it is an interesting collage taken through the window of the Eurostar as it passed through Lille Europa. We traversed four countries today, with France being the only one which we did not touch soil at some point, but nevertheless, it can provide today’s shot. On the left, Joe, coming on holiday with his old folks for the first time in years. Where we are going, you can find out tomorrow.

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Sep 09 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

The Lloyds building, Halifax

Monday 7th September 2026, 9.30am (day 5,492)

Lloyds building, 7/8/26

This used to be the HQ of the Halifax, a building society that sold out to corporate capital a few years ago and is now owned by Lloyds. This office building dominates the town centre (of Halifax, in case you hadn’t grasped that point) and is a real 1970s architectural relic, a kind of mix between the Parallax View and Logan’s Run if you ask me. The reflected tree seems to be taking over, and no one actually seems to work there, particularly — people cannot be seen.

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Jun 07 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

In the rushes

Saturday 6th June 2026, 2.15pm (day 5,399)

Mill pond rushes, 6/6/26

If I feel like reconnecting with nature I don’t have to go far. Over the road, into the woods and up to the old millpond usually is enough. There was a time a few years ago when this looked like it was drying up entirely, but its lower parts now seem to be developing into a natural swamp, and quite attractively.

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Jun 04 2026
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

White Swan garden reflection

Wednesday 3rd June 2026, 3.30pm (day 5,396)

Swan garden reflection, 3/6/26

This is a self-portrait — logically I will be on it somewhere, and you may discern me under the red umbrella nearest to this shiny ball thing. I’m in the garden early — but then again I started work early (7:45) and sat upstairs marking for several hours. Semester 2 is now officially done, though, as far as I am concerned.

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May 29 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Halifax station

Thursday 28th May 2026, 12.40pm (day 5,390)

Halifax station, 28/5/26

In effect, this was the last leg of my journey home from Scotland — I had to take the hire car back then came home on the train. There’ll be plenty of shots of the local area in the next three weeks, I’m not going anywhere. You find all of this stuff fascinating, I know.

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May 15 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Goose painting

Thursday 14th May 2026, 9.45am (day 5,376)

Goose and reflection, 14/5/26

To me it looks like the goose is paddling through paint, a Jackson Pollock-style approach to imposing its artistic views on the world, or at least, this part of the Hebden Water, below the line of shops and apartments on Valley Road. Maybe the bird itself could be a bit more prominent — although its not as if Canada geese are bright red, is it — or I might have zoomed in more, but never mind.

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Apr 02 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Ghost plane (not ours)

Wednesday 1st April 2026, 9.55am (day 5,333)

Ghost plane, 1/4/26

A foggy morning, but fortunately not enough to delay us nor any of the others who were planning to leave Berlin this morning. Swissair’s service was in the gate next to ours: the BA flight was there too at this point, though unseen behind the ghost.

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Mar 15 2026
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

In reflective mood

Saturday 14th March 2026, 12.45pm (day 5,315)

Reflected portrait on train, 14/3/26

This one is the result of me sitting on a train (somewhere in the vicinity of Bolton) and feeling experimental. I did my best to capture the reflection of this man in the hat in the train’s window, really just to see how it turned out. And, well, it’s OK. It’s the shot I intended to take, anyway, and that’s always the source of at least a little satisfaction.

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Jan 16 2026
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In the flowerpot

Thursday 15th January 2026, 11.55am (day 5,257)

Flowerpot reflection, 15/1/26

I’m still marking. This miniature world was found just outside the front door, a little flowerpot full of water and with some long-drowned little clumps of green at the bottom. Maybe it says a lot that it was the most interesting thing seen today. On the other hand, as it has turned out, this is really just a shot of my hands — they’re both on there — and in that regard I quite like the shot.

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Oct 18 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

On the Central Line

Friday 17th October 2025, 6.35pm (day 5,167)

Central Line portrait, 17/10/25

Once more, London. I spend far more time here now than I ever did when I actually lived down south. This portrait came about because of noticing the bendiness of the windows on this Central line train. A kind of Daliesque thing? A little bit, anyway.

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