Tag Archives: windows

Composition with seats and van

Monday 14th September 2026, 1.10pm (day 5,499)

Still life, yellow seats, 14/9/26

As seen on one side of the Eglise St. Jean-de-Grund, from atop one of Luxembourg’s dizzying verticals; specifically, the Rocher du Bock.

No further comment on the image itself, but I must note that something happened today which has been threatened before but never quite happened over the previous 5,499 days of this blog. Namely that I had a total camera breakdown thanks to a completely dead battery — which I could not replace today because it’s basically too old and the shop I tried did not stock it. It will therefore be out of action at least until I get home, although the kit needed replacing anyway (the camera I am presently using was always just stop-gap equipment). It’s just as well that phones take pictures these days, otherwise the blog would have ended today — and expect at least the next couple to be taken with my Google Pixel 6, itself getting a little knackered these days. Hi-tech photography this is not.

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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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Further repetition

Wednesday 29th April 2026, 5.50pm (day 5,361)

The houses on Windsor Road in Hebden Bridge always make a good subject and I think this is the sixth time they have appeared on here by now — but it’s been fifteen years, so I ask for that to be taken into consideration when judging my claim to want to avoid repeition on here. Definitely an effective illustration of certain engineering principles though, and of variations on a theme . I make it that there are forty windows visible on this shot in whole or in part, all the same, but all just that little bit different too.

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Brighouse station ramp

Thursday 1st January 2026, 5.50pm (day 5,243)

Brighouse station ramp, 1/1/26

An abstract, though it does represent the fact that the two trains I caught today were punctual to the minute: a good start for 2026. Let’s see how long it takes before this perfect record is broken; I predict Sunday.

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Little Shop of something-or-other

Friday 7th November 2025, 3.45pm (day 5,188)

Audrey III, 7/11/25

One has to admire the level of detail that has gone into this ‘Halloween’ window display, even down to the ‘Mushnik’s Flower Shop’, backwards, to the left. In the sign I have cropped to the right, the creators claim this is ‘Audrey III’, perhaps because Audrey II already passed through Hebden a few years back.

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The washing’s out

Monday 16th June 2025, 3.25pm (day 5,044)

Washing on Eiffel Street, 16/6/25

I have had a lot of travelling recently but I have already embarked on a sustained period — four weeks, anyway — of Being At Home. Hence… a view from home. There may be more of these coming up.

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Gray day in Manchester

Tuesday 11th February, 9:25am (day 4,919)

Gray day, Manchester

From the colour of one specific bit of Manchester yesterday, to this scene of utter grayness. Or is it greyness with an E? I’ve never been sure. Gra/ey it was today though, for sure. Such a gloomy day .

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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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Richard Cobden and St. Ann’s Church

Thursday 28th March 2024, 9.40am (day 4,599)

St Ann's Church, 28/3/24

In Manchester, but not my usual parts of the city, so a chance to bring some different views to the blog. The statue of the Dead White Male is of Richard Cobden, and until just now I had no idea who this person was so I have read up about him. It sounds as if he was something of a radical dude, campaigning for years for the repeal of the Corn Laws (which kept the price of bread artificially high and impoverished the masses for the benefit of a few rich landowners), free trade and pacifism. So, go Richard. St Ann’s Church, behind, is a rather noble building as well.

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Market Street, round the back

Wednesday 20th December 2023, 4.20pm (day 4,500)

Squat the airbnbs, 20/12/23

It’s a valid political opinion. Whether anyone pays attention is a different matter.

This has hardly been the most eventful December — not a single photo in the month so far has been taken further than 30 miles from home — but this will change soon enough. Today is also day 4,500 of the blog, a nice round number: I have done one of my periodic updates of the stats, a page which if nothing else, proves quite how anal I am.

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