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News From Nowhere No. 3,230
It was twenty years ago today (well, in fact, it was twenty years ago yesterday, but that doesn’t have the same musical ring to it) that I uploaded the first post to my News From Nowhere blog. Since then, there have been 3,230 posts and 3,913,493 visits. That first post featured a picture of the village of Burton Salmon in Yorkshire, and I’m reprising it for this special anniversary. If you want to know what I was doing in Burton Salmon back…
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That’s Life
Street scenes like this one – which I photographed in France half a century or so ago – are wonderful reflections of everyday life. Nobody is posing, and no Sunday best clothes…
Long Time, Long Jump
I’ve been taking photographs for a long time. Here’s one from sixty years ago, taken when I was still at school in Halifax. Some ran, some jumped, and others held the tape…
A Photo Of Time
It was such a long time ago. I look at the photograph now and search for myself. I find the hint of a look, the corner of a dream, and the start…
Looking Down
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that the view from Halifax, looking up the hillside towards the church of St Thomas on Claremount Road, is one that I have photographed…
Bruges Bronze
This was among some photographs of mine from the late 1980s, and I must confess that I had completely forgotten what it was or where I had taken it. A…
