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Feb 02 2024
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

The CN Tower, attempt 1 (aborted)

Thursday 1st February 2024, 1.40pm (day 4,543)

CN Tower in cloud, 1/2/24

Not as exciting a photo as was planned for the day, and certainly a less extensive panorama, but the reasons for this can be gathered by inspection of the top of the picture. The observation decks of the CN Tower (still the tallest building in the world outside of Asia) were swathed in cloud, making the jaunt to the top, if not pointless, then rather less of an attraction than it might have been. But the woman on the gate did advise me that I could just reschedule my timed ticket for another day — which was very civilised of her (some major tourist attractions would have just said ‘tough shit, sucker, lump it’). So I shall return on Monday. And if it’s cloudy then?…. it will be what it will be.

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Jan 22 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Green light for more rain

Sunday 21st January 2024, 5.20pm (day 4,532)

Rain and green light, 21/1/24

Well, it was quite nice for a day or two. It didn’t last. This picture was chosen for today, in part, because Clare insisted I not use the one of her putting on her slippers, but nevertheless this does epitomise the day.

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Jan 21 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

January afternoon

Friday 19th January 2024, 3.25pm (day 4,530)

January afternoon, 19/1/24

Sometimes days slip into the past so quickly: I post this on Sunday morning and couldn’t really tell you very much about what happened on Friday. I worked, basically. And it was cold, still. Although I know that some forty-three hours later, all the snow has gone.

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Jan 17 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The graveyard on the hill

Tuesday 16th January 2024, 11.25am (day 4,527)

Graveyard on hill, 16/1/24

Snow was forecast and duly arrived, though it was hardly a winter apocalypse. It did make the town look good, though. This graveyard sits on the hillside across the valley from my house: it takes a long zoom to pick it out in a photo and, usually it’s all rather brown and unprominent. But I like the way the snow picks out the headstones, like rim-light, almost.

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Jan 08 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape

The Brecon Beacons (not climbed yet)

Sunday 7th January 2024, 9.50am (day 4,518)

Brecon Beacons

The County Tops project exists so I can find excuses to get about the country, and this won’t be my last trip to South Wales by any means. These lumps of rock and grass will get me back again: these slopes eventually culminate in Pen y Fan (its summit obscured by mist in this shot), highest of the Brecon Beacons and the highest point anywhere in the country south of Snowdonia. I was just driving past today, though — it can wait.

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Jan 04 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

January mist (with bird)

Wednesday 3rd January 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,514)

Mist and bird, 3/1/24

Another low-contrast kind of day, spent at home working, little to see other than what the local landscape, weather and birdlife allow. In the end, this was the day’s best combination of those factors.

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Dec 27 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

Driving through total crap for five hours

Wednesday 27th December 2023, 11.25am (day 4,507)

Crap drive home, 27/12/23

This is a totally crap picture, but it epitomises the day, entirely. The sunshine of Boxing Day was not sustained. We left Dundee at about 9am, I gritted my teeth and drove, and we staggered into Morecambe at about 2pm — an hour longer than it should have taken — battered by high winds, driving rain, surface water, low visibility, the lot. This is taken somewhere in the wilds of the Southern Uplands, in the indefinable watershed country between Tweeddale and Annandale, when I just had to pull over and stop for a few minutes. 

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Dec 22 2023
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Windy

Thursday 21st December 2023, 3.50pm (day 4,501)

Bin down, 21/12/23

Wind is the hardest weather condition of all to capture adequately on camera — but it was very windy today. We will rebuild, however.

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Dec 03 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

View from the house

Saturday 2nd December 2023, 11.15am (day 4,482)

House view, 2/12/23

Continuing a theme, but why not — this was definitely the nicest thing to be seen today, and it didn’t even require leaving the house.

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Nov 30 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

First snow of the winter

Thursday 30th November 2023, 12.10am (day 4,480)

Snow dusting, red light, 30/11/23

OK, it’s not much, but the first snow of the season fell on Hebden Bridge while I was out in Blackburn last night. It didn’t last, but here it is. A curiosity: one of the few pictures used to represent a day despite being taken before going to bed the night before; in fact in pure calendar terms this is the earliest ever shot in all the 4,480 days so far. Times on here are rounded to the nearest five minutes, but this does take the award from the previous holder, 27th September 2014, by one minute and twelve seconds: the exact timestamp on this shot is 00:08:03.

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