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Adrian Chandler
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Photographer and general camera-botherer. Likes prog and jazz rock. Sometimes feels like an alien in human form.
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Patron saint of garages.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of two closed garage doors. Just visible above them is a statue of a saint, standing in a niche in the wall of the adjacent church.
February 18, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Watching

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography
Photo of a man sitting on a wall looking directly at the camera. Behind him is a poster with two staring eyes, and he sits behind a bicycle with a Deliveroo bag on the back. It too has two eyes directed towards the photographer.
February 17, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Old Chevy

#Photography #Car
Photo of the door and handle on an old Chevy. The window and paint are covered in water droplets from the fine rain that was falling that day.
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Stares

#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Birmingham
Black and white photo of a gull perched on the knee of a statue. The head of the statue appears to stare at the gull which, in turn is looking directly at the camera.
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Table lamp.

#Photography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze
Photo of a small table lamp at the centre of a round table with three legs standing in front of a fence. The camera was pointed through a rather grubby window, hence the streaks and the reflection of the building behind, that gives the photo the appearance of a double exposure.
January 27, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Feet.

Spotted in the Barbican, a location someone referred to as the 'photographer's creche'.

#StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanGaze
Black and white photo of two feet sticking out from behind a pillar. They hadn't passed out, they were simply sitting against a wall having a spot of lunch.
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Streetlight.

This building fascinates me and I'm trying to explore it photographically before it's gone (sadly it's slated for demolition).

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze #Monochrome
Photo of a streetlight with eight lighting heads arranged in a circle at the top of its pole. It is framed by the dark bulk of a building that's clad in dark grey metal panels. The photo is in colour, but is monochromatically dark blue.
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Shadowplay.

#Photogrpahy #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze
Photo of light streaming through a window in an empty shop creating long shadows. A figure is silhouetted in one of the windows and this tableau is framed by a reflection of buildings on the window through which the photo has been taken.
January 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Can I have my ball back?

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze
A deflated football nestles in some anti bird spikes on a canopy in the top right of the photo frame. In the bottom, forming part of a shop display, a poster shows a blond-haired boy semingly looking up at the football. (Translation note - for viewers in the US read football as soccer ball).
December 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Downhill

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #minimalism
Black and white photo of the slope of a hill on which two people, wearing woolly hats, are walking downhill. Behind them is a solitary tree, bereft of leaves. The hill, walkers and tree are all silhouetted against an overcast sky.
December 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A holy trinity window abstract.

#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography
An abstract black and white photo of three church windows, blurred and distorted by condensation on imperfect glass. The frames of the windows are just about discernable, but the overall impression is of three ghost-like apparitions.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Footbridge

#Photography #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography
Black and white photo of a single figure at the top of steps on the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor bridge. The figure is silhouetted against the sky and framed by the structure of the bridge. Handrails on either side lead the eye towards the figure.
December 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Lucifer has an idea.

Jacob Epstein's masterpiece in Birmingham Art Gallery and Musuem.

#BlackAndWhitePhotography #Photography #Art #UrbanPhotography #Birmingham
Black and white photo taken from a low angle of Jacob Epstein's sculpture titled 'Lucifer', at the Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum. A bright light shines just above Lucifer's head as if he's had an idea. It's me playing on the legend that Lucifer was the angel of light before his fall and expulsion from heaven. Epstein gave this sculpture a sexy, pert bum, for those of you interested in this sort of detail.
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Smallscale human.

#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Birmingham
Black and white photo of a man walking, just a small silhouette amongst towering office blocks on all sides of him.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Always the answer...

...whatever the question.

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Black and white photo of a window in the side of a narrowboat. In the top right of the window there's a sign that just says 'No'.
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The old straight track.

Not a ley line as far as I'm aware.

#BlackAndWhitePhotography #Photography
Black and white photo of a rural farm track, it's parallel lines leading off towards trees slightly blurred by mist in the distance. A hedge and power lines on the left, and a low fence on the right line the track. The title alludes to the book 'The Old Straight Track' by Alfred Watkins that posited lines of power in the landscape that he dubbed 'ley lines'. A charming theory, once beloved of hippies, druids and others unprepared to accept reality, it has faded into relative obscurity.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Shards.

Slices of reflected London.

#StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Photography
Photo of part of a building with many reflective surfaces that mirror small slices of the urban environment in which it stands. Bisecting the frame is a single slice reflecting a column of the structure on the other side of the street as two women walk past its base.
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Lamp post.

#Photography #UrbanPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of the ends of two bridges meeting at an acute angle. On the left is an old brick bridge, on the right a modern one made of steel. At the point on the angle where they converge stands a lantern-style lamp post.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Skull.

All the leaves have gone, and the sky is grey, as the Mamas and The Papas almost sang.

#Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of a fabric halloween skull decoration hanging in the bare branches of a tree in a town centre.
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Holly Leaves.

A cluster of holly leaves, their surfaces covered in drops of water from earlier rainfall.

#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of a cluster of holly leaves, their surfaces covered in drops of water from earlier rainfall. The round drops of water contrast with the sharp points on the edges of the leaves.
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Triptych.

A holy trinity of reflections.

#Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze #St.Pauls
Black and white photo of St. Paul's Cathedral aligned between the two reflecting surfaces of office blocks. The dome of St. Paul's is reflected in both of the walls of the office blocks.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Pinstripes.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #StreetPhotography #Photography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze
Photo of a silhouette of a man standing in front of an illuminated wall broken by vertical black struts. the man appears lost in thought, though he's probably wondering where his pass is so he can access the security gate and get back to his desk to eat his lunch.
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Walking Towards the Light.

#StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of a path, strewn with fallen leaves, under a tunnel formed by overgrowing trees. The figure of a man is visible in the background, silhouetted by a misty white light. If this was hanging in a gallery it would have a label saying how it represented the passing of a life, with the fallen leaves the regrets and promises broken along the way - or some such bollocks.
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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From the Belly of the Beast.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #UrbanGaze
#BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photo of a woman, wearing headphones, emerging from beneath a large, angular building that's clad in metal panels, like some big old behemoth. Some say this building resembles an elephant - well it's big and it's grey...
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Trash Talk

#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanGaze
Photo of a waste bin. The slot in the bin for the rubbish frames two people in a cafe, seated at a table.
October 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM