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12 hours ago

A black and white photograph taken over a flat calm canal, showing an abandoned and blocked door leading to a small landing above the water - much of the image being the reflection in the water.

The magic door

B&W photography on film
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1 day ago

Definitely needs appropriate gravity!

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1 day ago

A black and white photograph of the show of ornate railings raking across steps in a pavement

Not all shadows are made equal

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2 days ago

"Purple Rain"
Acrylic, Mono printing and collage

This and many other brand new works will be available at
York Open Studios
18/19 and 25/26 April 2026
Find me and Phil Bixby - black and white photography - at
Venue 15
www.yorkopenstudios.co.uk

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2 days ago

Definitely at the abstract end of found objects! Thanks 😁

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2 days ago

A black and white photograph of angular rusted steel remains at the edge of a canal, reflected in the water along with the trees behind

Dissolving into complexity

B&W photography on film
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2 days ago

Holy SHIT! I just googled this and my mind is blown (and I'm not even a Tory)

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3 days ago

Tesco in Bognor Regis plans to raise car park to beat flooding Previous floods have forced the Tesco store in Bognor Regis to close.

Now there is a climate emergency metaphor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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3 days ago

A black and white photograph showing tram lines curving across the foreground and the regular grid of a block of flats filling the background

Order out of chaos

B&W photography on film
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4 days ago

Well it's not a good strategy for empire-building but then being an architect is more fun (generally) than being an emperor!

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4 days ago

A black and white photograph of a zig-zag pedestrian ramp to a footbridge, with strong sunlight accenting the geometry

Diverted

B&W photography on film
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5 days ago

Our @yorkopenstudios.bsky.social directory dispenser awaits passing Yorkies and this is the view it gets when you, yes every one of you, takes a free directory and starts to plan your York Open Studios weekends' visits!

Venue 15 - find @singfoodie.bsky.social and me at yorkopenstudios.co.uk

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5 days ago

A black and white photograph of the underside of bridges reflected on a very still canal, creating a confusing pattern of line and texture

A journey of confusing signals

B&W photography on film
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6 days ago

Thank you! Taken on a walk from dropping off a photo at a Sheffield gallery to get the return train one station closer to York...

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6 days ago

A black and white photograph with compressed perspective of tramlines leading to a bridge, in a setting of Victorian buildings

Contemporary landscape

B&W photography on film
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1 week ago

I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon There seems to be somebody in the back seat …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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1 week ago

A photograph showing framed photos and artwork hung at an exhibition with viewers looking on.

Final days of Scarborough's Old Parcels Office Open Exhibition & your final chance to see this lovely mix of artwork from across the UK. Including, of course, "Endless" which will be (woop!) departing to a new home after closing time.

Info & opening hours at www.oldparcelsoffice.org/opo-open-2026/

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1 week ago

Grace, reflected

B&W photography on film
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Sheffield & Tinsley Canal on my return from delivering my part in the upcoming Black & White show at @fronteer.bsky.social - shot on the lovely Delta Pro 3200 rated at 1600.

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1 week ago

Yesterday's sunshine reflected onto the underside of a bridge , Sheffield and Tinsley Canal.

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1 week ago

Many years ago I realised I was a control freak and hence would be a crap employer, so have remained self-employed sole trader since. I'm happy to confirm my views on crap employers should any client wish to questionnaire me.

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1 week ago

Net zero is the answer to Middle East energy crisis, says Business Secretary

His comments came after the conflict in the Middle East sent the European gas price up 80pc and oil prices nearly 20pc as Iranian strikes on production facilities in the Gulf spooked markets.
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1 week ago

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here

of an expat in Dubai

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm.

[Ends]

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1 week ago

A black and white photograph taken on an old footbridge over a river, with elegant iron balustrading but a huge bolted, plated (presumably very essential) joint in the structure just beyond.

You don't have to be beautiful

B&W photography on film
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1 week ago

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

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1 week ago

A black and white photograph showing a broad stone trough built beneath a dry stone wall, with the wall gently reflected in the still water

There is a gentler place

B&W photography on film
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1 week ago

Proximity restores health. As reported in The Lancet, walking 7,000 steps a day—about one hour—reduces major risks: cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and diabetes. Walkable proximity turns life into prevention, compressing morbidity and extending well-being.
(🙏 & HT A. Flahault)

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6 months ago

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail

I would rather
eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,
blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,
than read one page of the Daily Mail.

If I was bored
in a waiting room in Perivale,
on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,
halfway through a circumnavigational sail,
I would not read the Daily Mail.

I would happily read
the autobiography of Dan Quayle,
1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.

Far better to
stand outside in a storm of hail,
scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,
be swallowed by a humpback whale,
than have to read the Daily Mail.

If I was blind
and it was the only thing in Braille,
I still would not read the Daily Mail.

Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

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1 week ago

Blog! YoCo cohousing group member Tim Larner took part in ChaCo's recent evening with Diggers & Dreamers' Chris Coates, and marvels in the breadth and variety of intentional communities... www.yoco.uk/blog/the-his...

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2 weeks ago

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths.

This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

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2 weeks ago

Save me

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