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Conversations With A. I. Lowry
So I said to AI, “What if L. S. Lowry had visited Elland and set up his easel on Saddleworth Road, looking towards Elland Bridge?” “Give me a photo to start me off,” said AI. “OK, here’s one I took back in the 1980s. Can you do anything with it?” “I’ll have a go,” said AI. AI Lowry, that is.
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A Town In Transition
My photograph of Halifax dates from the early 1970s and shows the town during a time of transition. Centre stage is the Homfray carpet mill (although by then it had become part…
A Contented Pig
I met this splendid fellow yesterday during a visit to the Pigs In The Wood Animal Sanctuary in Scissett, Huddersfield. When I asked him to smile for the camera, he delivered a…
The Celebration
This photo has been in that suitcase of memories I call the “family archives” for as long as I can remember, and I always assumed the cake was celebrating the birthday of…
Revealing Dress
You can have great fun with artificial intelligence by asking it to transform a familiar picture of your favourite relative into an image of a 19th century Victorian gentleman -…
Long And Winding Path
It’s the end of the month, and here is a path leading somewhere – but who knows where? Whilst this is true in a literal sense (I have no idea…
Dirty Old Town
I frequently met my love by these gas works walls; they were opposite the carpet mill where I was working at the time. Around then, I may have walked a…
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