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It’s Fathers’ day here in the UK, so today’s picture is in honour of my father. Taken over 90 years ago, the photograph shows a man who is both a stranger and also familiar – an older man I knew well, dressed in a younger man’s clothes. I look at him and see some of my brother and bits of my son. I remember him, and I hope I see bits of myself
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Bridge Art
There should be a special category of art for the work displayed on the metal panels that line endless railway bridges and other lumps of transport infrastructure in this country. Some of…
Shibden Gate
There is always a temptation to submit images that don’t pass the pinpoint definition test – or that fail short of the standard for clarity and contrast – to some AI controlled…
Tired Pinks And Sooty Greens
The view looking back up the Calder Valley from the top of Long Wall, Elland provides all the sensuous curves demanded by even the most obsessive nineteenth century French Impressionist. And that…
Stone Slates And Chimney Pots
This was the previous generation: the generation of stone slates and chimney pots, when harsh grey smoke drifted up to merge with a wet grey sky. It was bad for…
Looking Down
The photograph is one of dozens I’ve taken of Halifax from the top of Beacon Hill over the years. This particular one dates from the early 1970s. Sometimes, however, I’d…
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