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Playing with texture

Posted at 21:57:35 on Mon, May 05th 2008 by graham
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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 125

The footpath that runs from Harvey Street, Oswaldtwistle, down to the Foxhill Bank Nature reserve.

I was actually just playing about with different exposure settings here, but this one came out quite nicely, if a little dark. I haven't had to do much too it.

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Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town

Posted at 23:45:16 on Sun, April 20th 2008 by graham
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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 111

This is Tinker Brook as it runs through Foxhill Bank nature reserve in Oswaldtwistle.

Once an area of hard concrete lodges, this is now just about the closest most Ossy people will get to nature without heading out of town and into the moors. It used to be made up of disused concrete lodges but a lot of work, followed by a lot of letting nature take its course, has made it rather a pretty place.

We used to come here after school when I was a kid, to talk and laugh and feed the swans. Witness a little bit of my childhood as it drifts on by.

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Post-industral countryside

Posted at 23:43:59 on Fri, April 18th 2008 by graham
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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 109

Three East Lancashire towns: on the left, Blackburn, on the right, Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up, and Accrington.

Taken from the Grain Road at Belthorn, possibly the most exposed an inhospitable place in the whole of East Lancs, except for today.

I do accept, by the way, that this looks somewhat like a Windows XP desktop background. I apologise.

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Where the fairies live?

Posted at 23:25:19 on Tue, March 11th 2008 by graham
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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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Home Sweet Home

Posted at 23:23:00 on Sat, February 09th 2008 by graham
in: d40x lancashire landscape moors oswaldtwistle photography sunset three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 39

Actually, this isn't near home. It's taken on the moors above Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, where I grew up. Still, the point remains. I stood up here and took a deep breath and for the first time in a week didn't smell the smoke and grime and myriad hydrocarbons of London.

I haven't done much to the image besides clone out a couple of lampposts. It might have worked better with the polariser but I didn't have it to hand.

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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.