Ideal view
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 162 When I grow old and retire I want to have a view like this in the evening. Of course, I could do with out all the other stuff that comes with such a view, viz, erosion, wind damage, flooding and a [...]
As the sun sets on industry
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 135 Taken at Glasson Dock, at the mouth of the Lune estuary (the opposite bank from Sunderland Point. These cranes just happened to be between me and the sun. I love the combination of the light, the sky, the silhouettes and the [...]
Signage
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 134 I have no idea who Jenny Brown was or why she has a point named after her. Mostly I just liked the light. Oh, and on an unrelated note, I’m finally up-to-date with these posts! Let joy be unconfined.
Flowers in the sunlight
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 127 A white Rhodonedron growing in the grounds of a house in Caton (luckily for your photographer, right next to the road).
Playing with texture
Graham Binns posted a photo: 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 [...]
Whither the wind blows
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 124 A bent and twisted tree (I don’t know what species, alas) on back road between Galgate and Caton. This was one of those lucky spur of the moment captures, where there happened to be a convenient spot to stop the car. [...]
Sign sale
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 123 Back in the Covered Yard, Lancaster. I came back here because I wanted to capture it on a day when the light through the skylights was brighter – pretty much as it is here, in fact.
More shadowplay
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 122 The gate of a churchyard in a village near Lancaster whose name I’ve forgotton (there are quite a few of these and they all have beautiful churches). Once again, it was the shadows that attracted me.
Where HP Lovecraft got his pokers
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 121 Albion Ironworks in the Covered Yard off King Street, Lancaster. I love founr things about this image: The symbol on the door, the one on the window, the graffiti upstairs and, of course, the name of the place. Cthulhu is watching.
Shadow patterns
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 120 Taken in Lancaster Market Hall, where the shadows caught my eye. I converted this to sepia so as to disguise the horribly garish sign of the Everything-a-Pound shop to the right of the frame. The things on the shelf are brass [...]
A lone traveller
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty odd days of 2008, day 114 A solitary lamb wanders away from the camera on Roeburn Road, near Littledale. Actually, he’s not alone. His mum is just the the right of him, hidden in the long grass. Just after I took this shot she herded him [...]
Many monuments to man
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 113 The view out over the bay from the moors above Caton and Littledale. In the near distance, the salt-cruet shape of Ashton Memorial. Behind that, the twinned bulk of Heysham nuclear power station and, in the far, far distance (and not [...]
A long, slow collapse
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 112 A collapsing cottage on the road between Ingleton and Hawes. I would have liked to get closer to this so that I could have worked with some more extreme angles. Unfortunately a large, barbed-wire fence was in the way and I [...]
Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town
Graham Binns posted a photo: 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 [...]
Post-industral countryside
Graham Binns posted a photo: 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. [...]
Road Closed
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 108 Hurrah, I hear you cry, we have an image uploaded. Yes, dear viewers, I have been somewhat lax in posting these. Remind me never to set my camera to shoot RAW ever again. This is one of the roads near my [...]
Inside Job
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 104 Seen under a the road bridge that crosses the Lancaster canal at White Cross. I wish I could have been lower down to snap this better but the path on my side of the bank slopes up to the bridge.
Gateway to another realm
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 93 Yes, I’m nearly ten days behind with these. I shot a bunch of them in RAW and it’s taken me forever to convert them. Taken at St Patrick’s Chapel, Heysham Head. Note the brown sea. Gotta love Heysham.
Danger, Danger
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three Hundred and Sixty odd days of 2008, day 92 I returned to Sunderland to try and get some of the shots that I thought I’d missed yesterday. This is one of them. I’m still not entirely happy with it, but I’ve processed the hell out of it anyway.
Another Bloody Boat
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 91 Taken at Sunderland, near the mouth of the Lune estuary. I’m not really happy with any of the photos that I got in this shoot. I’m definitely going to go back and get more, because with the right conditions and the [...]
Wilderness welcomes careful walkers
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 86 The gateway into some of the access land in Bowland Forest, with all the customary warnings about not littering or killing or setting fire to things. Note the litter on this side of the fence. See, that’s considered okay.
Nostalgia
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 78 The disused railway station building at Halton. The railway itself is now the Lancaster Millenium cycleway. Sometimes, I confess, I wish it was still there. It had to be in sepia, though, didn’t it. I mean, I couldn’t not have done.
Season’s greetings, young one
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 73 Spring is one of the great times to live in the countryside. Lambs are popping up everywhere, gladdening even the flintiest of hearts. I wanted to call this picture "I has a flavour," but I decided against it. The only thing [...]
Where the fairies live?
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 [...]
