Where the fairies live?

Posted at 23:25:19 on Tue, March 11th 2008 by graham
in: 10mm aspencolliery blackandwhite cokeovens d40x fairycaves history lancashire monochrome oswaldtwistle photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 70

This is one of the "Fairy Caves," the old, abandoned coke ovens of Aspen Colliery in Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up.

They're full of graffiti, rubbish and needles now, but when I was a kid they held a mystique that never quite went away - until I saw them in the cold light of a windy Lancashire day after wading through mud and dodging dog turds to get to them. In that light, they're much less interesting.

It was hard to get the balance right in this shot. The sky was going to be blown whatever I did.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.

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