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Alfred Hitchcock mosaics, Leytonstone Underground Station, London, 1999, by Greenwich Mural Workshop for the centenary of his birth.
August 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
It It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth...'

Jorge Luis Borges
August 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The River, 1951, Jean Renoir
August 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
On Substack, it's 1901 and Frederick Armitage is about to atomise time.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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On Substack, I take a musical journey through the boom time blue sky year of 1927. The year of It Girls and the Spirit of St Louis. What could go wrong?

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April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
On Substack, I take a musical journey through the boom time blue sky year of 1927. The year of It Girls and the Spirit of St Louis. What could go wrong?

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April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A Quiet Passion, 2016, Terence Davies
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reflected Light Composition, 1923, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
April 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Like her mind's exploding in a fireball of ecstasy.
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
April 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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On Substack it's last train am in Lisbon and I'm taking a rubbish photograph I will later (now) try to argue is good actually.

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Heaven and Here
It was late one night in Lisbon, rushing for the last underground train. I snapped this in passing on the way down the station steps.
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January 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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On Substack, a ghost story

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SEQUOIA
First published in the Honest Ulsterman, October 2018
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January 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A journey through 1981 with John Foxx, David Byrne, Brian Eno, PIL, Glenn Branca, Josef K and Kraftwerk.

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November 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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First in short series on some classic photos, starting with William Claxton's Donald Byrd Takes the A Train from 1959.

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First in a series on classic photos begins with William Claxton's shot of jazz musician Donald Byrd.
Donald Byrd Takes the A Train, 1959, William Claxton
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November 16, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Kilkenny
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Silver Cones • Dunmore Cave • Kilkenny

These delicate cones made of carefully interwoven bands of silver wire, once decorated a garment of purple or deep red silk. It was found as part of a small Viking hoard within the dark depths of Dunmore Cave in County Kilkenny, Ireland.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I did a walk, took some photos. The short walk down the quay to the Peace Park revealed all kinds of history layered there; medieval, Victorian, personal. #walking #photography #history #Ireland
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Ghost Bridges and Regency Girls
Peace Park Walk, Kilkenny
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March 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM