Tag Archives: shadows

Mar 18 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Atrium, University of Gibraltar

Monday 17th March 2025, 1.35pm (day 4,953)

Uni of Gib, 17/3/25

The University of Gibraltar is why I am here, indirectly anyway. It is one of Europe’s newest, founded in 2016 and built into a converted old barracks. It’s also one of Europe’s smallest: what you see here is a considerable proportion of the whole. Something about it reminds me of the atrium where Heywood Floyd and the Russian scientists have a conversation in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the red-and-white theme that does it. And no, there didn’t seem to be any students around. They’re all ‘on placement’, apparently.

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Feb 28 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Fire escape

Thursday 27th February 2025, 11.30am (day 4,935)

Thirteen and a half years, plus one day, into the life of this blog and it’s nice that I can still sometimes find new things to see that are literally just down the road from my house. This metal construction at the back of the gym has been depicted before from underneath — let’s see if I can find one… ah yes, here you go. But the shadows falling on it this morning — yes! the sun is shining — were rather pleasing.

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Feb 07 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

On Princess Street

Thursday 6th February 2025, 9.20am (day 4,914)

Princess Street shapes, 6/2/25

A sunny day in Manchester, and a good one for light rebounding off glassy and metallic buildings in various pleasing ways. The block in the middle has been a work-in-progress for at least a year now and so is still neither glassy nor metallic but surely this is planned — for now though it offers a good contrast to what turns out almost like a collage.

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Nov 30 2023
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Daily Post, Sport, Urban scene

Heading home

Wednesday 29th November 2023, 9.50pm (day 4,479)

Leaving Ewood Park, 29/11/23

The match is over, they are happy their team won (these are Blackburn Rovers fans) but it’s a cold night — time to go home. Which I also tried to do from this point, but another two hours were to pass before I enjoyed its comforts. That’s another story however.

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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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May 04 2017
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Passers-by, Market Street

Wednesday 3rd May 2017, 8.40am (day 2,078)

Market Street, 3/5/17

Another nice morning and a sunny day followed. Off we all go to work in our various ways — or possibly, come home again.

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Sep 06 2016
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

National Graphene Institute

Tuesday 6th September 2016, 9.55am (day 1,839)

Graphene institute, 6/9/16

As a few recent photos have suggested, we are entering a good time of year for dramatic skies. I like the NGI building, it somehow matches its main host substance — which I guess is the point, architecturally. Well, my employers have spent enough on it, so it’d better be good I suppose….

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Dec 02 2014
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Three shadowy figures

Tuesday 2nd December 2014, 3.20pm (day 1,195)

Three shadows, 2/12/14

As pictured on the steps of the St Peter’s Chaplaincy at the University, a location that has featured once before.

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Oct 19 2014
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Looking down from the city walls, Dubrovnik

Sunday 19th October 2014, 3.00pm (day 1,151)

City walls, Dubrovnik, 19/10/14

Croatia becomes the 21st different country to make it onto this blog. I am here for a conference until Thursday morning. Today was a day off, and once I left home (getting up at 4am… ) and flew here, I still had most of the day to explore the old walled city — which apparently was used for filming “King’s Landing” in Game of Thrones, should that float your boat. It was substantially damaged in the war of independence in 1991, but as far as I can tell the restoration has been exemplary. This shot was taken looking down from the wall-walk. it would be nice if her shadow wasn’t there, I guess, but then again, it comes with the rest of the good light…

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Aug 28 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Late August shadows

Tuesday 28th August 2012, 9.35am (day 369)

Shadows, 28/8/12

The wildly optimistic part of me still thinks that come September maybe we will get a run of nice warm and sunny days, but even if September in the UK can often be fine that is probably clutching at straws. The day was a largely pleasant one but there was just something autumnal about the morning, a crispness in the air that foretells the cold to come.

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