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Nigel Stanley
@nigelstanley.bsky.social
London based photographer, walker and bass guitarist. Retired from trade union comms and pensions geekery. Labour insidery - a distant memory. Lack of influencer.
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1/5 A walk in the woods
I post a photo every day (most of the time). During the week they are part of a set, and more random at weekends. For my first week here some shots around Chalet Wood in E #London 's #Wanstead Park.

#photography #naturephoto #landscapephoto
3/5 an #IR walk
Another shot from Lesnes Abbey Woods in SE London. I think this is on the the #GreenChain walk.
#fullspectrum SonyA7ii #konica24mmf28 #590nm

#infrared #photography #classicmono #scape
December 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
2/5 an #IR walk
From a pre-Christmas walk with my #fullspectrum SonyA7ii from Abbey Wood to Welling. Here's a #konica24mmf28 #590nm false colour shot from the edge Lesnes Abbey Woods.

#infrared #photography
December 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
1/5 an #IR walk
Just before Christmas I took my #fullspectrum SonyA7ii on a sunny winter walk from Abbey Wood to Welling. Here's a #konica24mmf28 #590nm shot from Lesnes Abbey Woods.

#infrared #photography #ClassicMono #blackadnwhite
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Best of 25 :10

This year I've also been trying out more radical editing of #architecture pix. This is from the City of London.

I get Anthropic to provide an alt-text. Today it's in the style of a #haynesinstructionmanual

#classicmono #photography #blackandwhite #architecturephotography
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Best of 25: 9

I've been experimenting with multiple exposures and intentional camera movement a lot this year. I don't think I shared this at the time, but looking back I like this one a lot. Multiple shots of flats in E London.

#icm #icmphotography #multipleexposure #photography #architecture
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Best of 25: 8

Taken in August in #Southend -on-Sea's front - where east Londoners still go for a day by the #seaside.

I like this one as I can't imagine why anyone would want to do this.

#OMsystems OM1 #olympus12100f4

#essex #fairground #fairgroundrides #photography #coastalphotography
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Best of 25: 7

#Lookingup in #WellsCathedral - the most striking building that I have visited this year. (though not in my family calendar as that's landscape.)

#laowa7_5mm f2 on #Olympus EM1iii.

#architecture #stunday
#churchphotography #churcharchitecture
#photography
#architecturephotography
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Best of 25: 6

The entrance hall of Osterley House in W London. I had to stand in exactly the right spot.

And very suitable for #OpenHouse for the #BlueSkyArtShow as it's a house that is open.

#OMsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm

#architecture #georgian #photography #architecturephotography
December 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Best of 25: 5

This beautiful iron bridge crosses the Grand Union #Canal on the stretch between #Brentford and #Hanwell. It's a #590nm #infrared image shot on my #fullspectrum
SonyA7ii with a #konica24mmf28 lens last winter.

#photography #blackandwhite #classicmono #landscape #landscapephotography
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Best of 25 :4

The choir of #Gloucester #Cathedral with #romanesque arches clearly visible, and with a peek through to the nave.
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#laowa7_5mm f2 on #Olympus EM1iii.

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#microfourthirds #photography #churchphotography #architecture #architecturephotography
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Best of 25 :3

I was please to get to this classic scene of Pulteney Bridge on the River Avon in Bath when it was still enough to get a great #reflection, even if the light was a bit flat.

#Olympus EM1iii 12-100mm f4

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #bath
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Best of 25: 2

Looking up in the Lincoln's Inn Great Hall/Library building into the tower. This is one of my favourite ever #lookingup shots - I'm slightly obsessed with these.

#fourthirds #Olympus7_14mmf4 lens on my #Olympus EM1iii

#photography #architecture #architecturephotography #symmetry
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Best of 25 :1
I'm posting some of my favourite snaps from 2025 until I take a Christmas/NY break. Here's an #infrared #ir shot from last January along the River Beam in E London.

#590nm #fullspectrum SonyA7ii #konica24mmf28 #classicmono #blackandwhite #photography #landscapephotography
December 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A long exposure shot of the skating rink at Somerset House. I was stopped taking photos by a security guard that said I couldn't take shots with identifiable people in. I didn't explain.

#photography #longexposure #iceskating #london
December 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Throwback Saturday

Here's a snap from Dec 24 as music and photography are probably my #favouritethings - today's #BlueSkyArtShow rather vague theme. This is the World Music Big Band at London's Vortex Jazz Club.

#classicmono #portrait #photography #blackandwhite #music
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
5/5 Emo Court

I've concentrated on 'below stairs' but Emo Court has elegant rooms, a formal garden and extensive grounds. Here's looking out of a ground floor #window onto the terrace and #gardens.

#OMsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm

#photography #architecture
#ireland #fensterfreitag #windowfriday
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
4/5 Emo Court

This is a tunnel from the basement leading away from the house so that the servants wouldn't be seen when they entered or left the house.

County #Laois, Ireland.

#omsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm

#photography #tunnel #ireland
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
3/5 Emo Court

Here's the basement wine cellar - another space unchanged for many years in this country house in County #Laois, #Ireland.

#omsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm

#photography #interior #winecellar
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
2/5 Emo Court

The basement of #EmoCourt ( County Laois, Ireland) is much as it was in the 19th century, and has been filled with appropriate items.

#photography #kitchen #interior #ireland
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
1/5 Emo Court

This week snaps of Emo Court in #Ireland from a short trip in September. It's a country house well cared for by the Irish state. At the centre is a room that runs to the top of the house where it is capped by a #dome.

#OMsystems OM1 #laowa7_5mm

#photography #architecture #Emocourt
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Here's a recent #infrared snap from #WansteadPark.

#Fullspectrum converted #olympusEm1markii with a #590nm clip-in filter.

PanaLeica 12-60mm f2.8-4

#photography #landscape #woods #landscapephotography #scape #stunday
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Nigel Stanley
Throwback Saturday
Looking for a pic with a #sky theme I thought of this 2020 shot of the lake at Hampton Court, which gels with my taste for #symmetry and love of #reflection s.

#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #landscapephotography
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Throwback Saturday
Looking for a pic with a #sky theme I thought of this 2020 shot of the lake at Hampton Court, which gels with my taste for #symmetry and love of #reflection s.

#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #landscapephotography
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
5/5 V&A Storehouse

The first fitted #kitchen from Frankfurt in 1926. Designed by Margarete (Grete) Schütte-Lihotzky and seen as radically #modernist at the time. Wonderful to see it so well displayed at #VAStorehouse

#photography #architecturephotography #architecture #interior #interiordesign
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
4/5 V&A Storehouse
The V&A collected parts of Robin Hood Gardens, the brutalist estate recently demolished. nowThese on show at the Storehouse, together with the wonderful film commissioned from Do Ho Suh.

#photography #robinhoodgardens #brutalism #architecturephotography #architecture #interior
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM