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Gearóid | Garrowed
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"Garrowed" is how to say my Irish name. Gearóid is how it's actually spelled.

Mostly photos of buildings, art, and assorted oddities from a designer with notions. ¶ Alt text always, usually with additional information. ¶ http://garrowed.co.uk
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Gearóid | Garrowed @garrowed.bsky.social · Nov 26
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More from #Colourscape @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVibrant #Photography #BathUK #Holburne
People moving through a series of colourful tunnels. The Colourscape 'Moonorooni' structure was a labyrinth of 25 interconnected inflatable chambers flooded with coloured light, forming a walk-in sculpture. The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK, 2018. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
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The rather grand Waterstones in Reading (it used to be a church)

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge
#Books #Bookshops #Retail #ReadingUK #Photography
A monotone photograph of an interior with a bifurcated staircase and a domed ceiling. At the top of the stairs, through a wide arch, a sign reads "children's bookshop." On the ground floor, bookshelves can be seen through the bannisters. The building was formerly Broad Street Independent Chapel. Waterstones bookshop, Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Or Another

#One #BlueSkyArtShow
#Signage #Mirrors #Photography
A monotone photograph of a convex mirror and road sign attached to a signpost in front of a stone wall. The sign has an arrow pointing to the right with the words "ONE WAY" below it. The mirror reflects terraced houses in a courtyard, with a light sky above them. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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From last night, looking into the pub

#WeekAforAbstract
#AlphabetChallenge 📷
January 11, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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#One #BlueSkyArtShow

#Signage #Logos #OneStationHill #ReadingUK #Architecture #Photography
The word/name ONE formed from outlines of basic shapes (two semi-circles, two triangles, and two rectangles) is rendered in metal and applied to a concrete pillar of an office building. One Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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#UrbanGaze #PublicArt #StreetArt #Mural #KevMundy #ReadingUK #RailwayStations #Photography
A night scene, divided in two, horizontally. On top, a modern glass-and-steel building with a distinctive sweeping roof (Reading railway station, Grimshaw architects). Its shape is almost mirrored below by a colourful, extra-large illuminated mural. There are steps to the right of the artwork and an entrance to a pedestrian underpass at its centre. "Rivers, Ruins & Regency" [2024] by Kev Mundy, in collaboration with sculptor Stuart Melrose, is a 51-metre long piece of art, full of references to the people and landmarks of the town. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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#Photography #LightAndShadow #Light #Shadows #Stripes
Street lighting filters through closed Venetian blinds to form a pattern of bright diagonal lines across a cushion with its own horizontal stripes. The lines of light continue over the seat and arm of a grey couch. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Good Morning/Labas to all! Today's photo from my archive is April 2024. Looking up into the belltower of the Duomo, Lucca.

#Photography #Lucca #Italy
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Made fresh daily

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge
#Books #History #Retail #Signage #ReadingUK #Photography
Books, facing out, on black shelves. Above them a sign reads "New History." Waterstones book shop, Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 12, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract
#Photography #LightAndShadow #Light #Shadows
Blurry stripes of yellow, red, and green light from a stained-glass window panel and shadows of Venetian blinds on a lightly-textured interior wall with a black picture frame. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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A view from a train.

#Trains #Freight #RailwayStations #Swindon #FensterFreitag #Photography
A yellow shipping container on a freight wagon at a station, with a gantry above it and a brown high-rise office building in the background. To the left is the window frame of the railway coach that this photograph is taken from. The strip lighting from inside the carriage is reflected in the window. Swindon Rail Station, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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#10minutesfromhome #TagTueday #Alphabetchallenge #WeekAForAbstract
Abstract Graffiti in the Northern Quarter Manchester
A metal shutter covering an entrance to a shop. The shutter is painted mostly black and has an abstract patter of rectangles and squares in red, white yellow and green with swirls and squiggles.
January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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brutal II

#photography #WeekAForAbstract #AlphabetChallenge #blackwhite #monochrome
Concrete pillars and floors in black and white
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #StreetPhotography #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A nocturnal scene with a deep blue sky. Silhouetted people walk across a paved plaza in the direction of Reading railway station. At the centre of the image is "Pivotal," an illuminated sculpture by Mark Nixon and Viliina Koivisto. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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#WeekAforAbstract #AlphabetChallenge #Photography #LightAndShadow #Light #Shadows #Interiors
Blurry blobs of white, red, and green light (from a stained-glass window panel) with a curiously-shaped shadow on a lightly-textured interior wall. Photo by Gearóid Burke. Blurry blobs of white, red, and green light (from a stained-glass window panel) on a lightly-textured interior wall. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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⁝⁝ | ⁝⁝ ⁝⁝ ⁝⁝ ⁝⁝

#WeekAforAbstract #AlphabetChallenge #MinimalMonday #LookDown #Pattern #Photography #ReadingUK
A monotone image with a gravelly surface divided in two horizontally by a cement strip. The top half has a pattern of raised squares, with six squares (in three rows of two) painted white. This is a close-up of curiously subtle parking bay indicators. Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke. A monotone image with a gravelly surface divided in two vertically by a cement strip. The right half has a pattern of raised squares with a secondary pattern of six squares that have been painted white, spaced about two metres apart and receding in the distance. These are parking bay indicators. Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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📷So, I would like to help the urban photographers community grow on @bsky.app
To celebrate my first year on bluesky, here is my first starter pack here 😊
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January 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Beams

#Photography #Angles #Light #Interiors
A dark, monotone photograph of a hallway carpet. The textured textile is criss-crossed by beams of light. A shaft of early morning sunlight enters from the top of the image (at -71˚), while artificial light crosses from a partially open door at 44˚, 26˚, and 10˚. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Happy New Year — let's go round again!

#HappyNewYear #MerryGoRound #Carousel #BathUK #Photography
A traditional, brightly-coloured merry-go-round stands on a street with scallop-patterned paving, surrounded by Georgian buildings. Red barriers surround the circular amusement ride, as pedestrians pass by. Stall Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke. A brightly-coloured and brightly lit merry-go-round. The wooden, white-and-gold horses gallop clockwise (with motion blur), unencumbered by riders. It was 10 am and the carousel had only just opened for business. Stall Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Another look inside this brutalist multi-storey car park before it's demolished.

#WindowsOnWednesday #Architecture #Brutalism #Concrete #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A photograph in which a wintery urban landscape is seen through six irregular-octagon-shaped openings in a wall. The ceiling and the top portion of the concrete had been painted white some time ago, the lower half and the floor were painted red. Two bright yellow horizontal metal bars of a barrier cross the lower portion of the image. These are the unglazed windows of a cast-concrete parking structure. Broad Street Mall, Düsseldorf Way, Reading, Berkshire. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Caged concrete

#Architecture #Concrete #Staircase #ReadingUK #Photography
Exterior shot of a round, metal, tower-like structure. Behind the steel bars are curved slabs of concrete, forming a spiral staircase for a parking structure. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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DAT WAYYY

#TagTuesday #StreetArt #Graffiti #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A detail from a brick wall which has been covered a large, elaborate spray-painted tag in the "Blockbuster" style. This image is centred on a capital E which has an unusual stencilled tag within its upper bar, which reads "DAT WAYYY," stacked in two lines. Whitley, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Warsaw, Poland #photography #street #warsaw #warszawa #poland #urbanism #art #streetphotography #two #urbanphotography #urbangaze #streetphoto #dream #second #liminal #train #urban #ricohgr3 #artistsofbluesky #eastcoastkin #photooftheday #night @bskyphotos.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Reap the Wild Wind

#BlueSkyMonday #Turbines #WindPower #SustainableEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ReadingUK #Photography
Looking up at a wind turbine. The tower is painted in graded stripes of green and features the portmanteau word "ecotricity." The turbine rotor is pointing to the one o'clock position, and the three blades, distorted by foreshortening, point towards four, eight and ten positions (or thereabouts) respectively. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Concrete swirl

#Architecture #Concrete #Staircase #ReadingUK #Photography
A monotone image with a sequence of overlapping curved slabs winding around a central point, forming a column. In other words, looking up at a concrete spiral staircase. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM