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Dec 09 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

The old millpond

Monday 8th December 2025, 1.50pm (day 5,219)

Old millpond, 8/12/25

Looking at the record allowed by the Nutclough Woods tag, my time in the woodland across the road has fluctuated down the years. While I know my tagging is not 100% reliable, it seems like I was not there (or, at least, not taking decent pictures) throughout the whole of 2024. On the other hand — during spring 2020 (you remember) I seem to have been there very frequently. I wonder why. I do think the old millpond up there has recovered some of its water level in the last few months, not necessarily to do with recent rainfall.

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Nov 10 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

The canal, again

Sunday 9th November 2025, 12.35pm (day 5,190)

Lock gates, 9/11/25

The second somewhat abstract shot in a row of some part of the country’s transport network — though a quite different one to yesterday’s. And I picked it before remembering that I depicted the Rochdale canal only the other day. Never mind. I like the asymmetrical scene here, as the excess water comes over the lock gates by the end of Holme Street in town.

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Oct 02 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Flower in the rain

Wednesday 1st October 2025, 6.20pm (day 5,151)

Flower in rain, 1/10/25

October 2025 began without a great deal happening, at least not to me. For now I am staying in my little bubble. Maybe this shot is representative of that, somehow, but maybe it’s just a nice splash of colour.

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Sep 28 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

In the Water and Steam Museum

Friday 26th September 2025, 11.20am (day 5,146)

Water and steam museum, 26/9/25

A city the size of London is going to need a lot of water. And unlike, say, Manchester, there are no high hills particularly nearby, in which one can build reservoirs and let gravity do quite a bit of the work of moving that water to where it is needed (water comes all the way to Manchester from the Lake District a hundred miles away through gravity alone). Therefore, some serious pumping is required. What used to be the Kew Bridge pumping station, and is now the London Water and Steam Museum, contains the biggest beam engine ever built, a gargantuan see-saw with a steam engine at one end and the pump at the other. That colossal object was impossible to photograph adequately, but these instruments will do.

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Apr 28 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

Alex needs a spray

Sunday 27th April 2025, 12.55pm (day 4,994)

Marathon finish, 26/4/25

The Manchester marathon took place in quite warm conditions and Alex definitely needed this assistance as he passed the 26-mile marker, thus, 385 yards to go. By the time she reached this point — over four hours later — Clare was also very much in need of some water, but she made it nevertheless, thus completing her second marathon after Edinburgh in May last year. That’s two more than I have ever done, or ever will do: even at walking pace (like, up a mountain or something) I see no need to ever propel myself 26.2 miles in one day. Well done to all who do so.

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Apr 25 2025
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Making ripples

Thursday 24th April 2025, 5.10pm (day 4,991)

Goose ripples, 24/4/25

It’s a shame about the foliage but these are near-perfect ripples, and the impression I got was very much that the goose was just sitting there and making them simply because it could. A human equivalent might be holding a ruler down on a desk and making it go bdrrbbrrrddbrrdd. A pointless but pleasing application of physics.

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Jun 15 2024
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Photographing the skyline

Friday 14th June 2024, 11.05am (day 4,677)

Clare on Toronto islands, 14/6/24

Clare has flown out to Toronto to join me for a few days, and why not, it’s a fine city to explore and also to look at. The skyline seems very well balanced and the CN Tower sets it off excellently. The best view of it is from the islands just offshore in the Lake, which is why a lot of people go there on a nice day — though she made it before the weekend. I like the shape her shadow makes on this one.

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Jun 08 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

Niagara Falls

Saturday 8th June 2024, 1.00pm (day 4,671)

Niagara Falls, 8/6/24

I first visited Niagara Falls on a freezing cold day in April 1989, when I was 19, and with a trip to make from Toronto to Buffalo for a workshop tomorrow, there seemed no reason to not stop off on the way for another look, 35 years later. On neither visit have I been unimpressed: the falls are certainly a monumental spectacle and manage to rise above the excessive tourist tat that spreads along each bank of the river (and is somewhat worse on the Canadian side, I thought). What you see here are the American Falls on the left then the narrow Bridal Veil fall on the right.

And, a curiosity: though everything you see in this picture is the territory of the USA, I was stood in Canada when I took it. Not long afterwards I walked across the Rainbow Bridge into the States, making this, I am pretty sure, only the second time I have crossed an international border as a pedestrian, after Spain/Gibraltar. (Italy to the Vatican and back can’t really count.)

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May 06 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

The Heart-Shaped Waterfall, kinda

Sunday 5th May 2024, 11.00am (day 4,637)

Waterfall of sorts, 5/5/24

More greenery. It’s not much to look at here, but this was the sum total of the flow over the Heart-Shaped Waterfall on this May Sunday. However, at least it was flowing; usually it is wholly dry, but there was plenty of rain at the weekend which stimulated it into some kind of life. It’s a nice spot to walk to, at least, but close up it’s impossible to capture its drama in a single shot, unlike from a distance.

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Jan 14 2024
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Canada goose

Saturday 13th January 2024, 12.45pm (day 4,524)

Canada goose, 13/1/24

As seen on the canalised part of the River Calder, in Brighouse, early this afternoon. I hope it was enjoying the sunshine, as it gave its demonstration of fluid dynamics.

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