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Time Extinguisher
I’ve tried to make up for the lack of a precise date on this photograph of mine by going back to the archives of the Milk Marketing Board to discover when this “Thirst Extinguisher” advert was current. No success so far, but perhaps the Bedford van and the three wheeled car are better clues. My guess is that we are being transported back to the late 1960s. “Photography – Time Extinguisher”
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Domino Run
I took this photograph getting on for twenty years ago. It shows Cowcliffe Hill Road plunging down towards a suitably undefined Huddersfield. It’s that row of terraced houses that captures the attention:…
Skegness Rock
You can cut this picture up into a dozen pieces, and each one will have Skegness running through it. It will have a bracing wind blowing sand up from the North Sea…
Edwardian AI
This early twentieth century picture postcard image of the approach to Halifax Railway Station has the look of something that has been created by a cut-price AI image colourising programme. It wasn’t;…
Real People, Real Lives
Whilst photographs may start out life as things that are intensely personal – this is Aunty Vera, this is our holiday – after a century or more pressed in an…
Just Messing
Why do we take photographs? Despite a lifetime of taking them, I am no closer to finding an answer. It’s partly about wanting to capture a moment or maybe share…
Three For The Price Of One
I wanted something cheery for Friday the 13th – there is enough bad luck and misery going on around us at the moment without me adding to it. We also…
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