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Chris Dale
@chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social
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Solicitor who promoted eDiscovery/eDisclosure in England and Wales and elsewhere. Now retired to my photographs of places, birds, and the dog. In Oxford.
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Near Thiepval OTD in 2016
Black and white photograph of an uphill slope towards two clumps of trees on the crest on a former field of battle in 1916.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Very visible - this was at Danzig Alley Cemetery near Mametz. By chance, my picture was taken OTD in 2016.
The wall of a Great War cemetery with an unexploded shell perched on it. An unexploded shell from the Great War.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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November 1918. The armies go home, leaving a devastated land behind them. Looking forward to reading Hugh Clout's "After the Ruins" on the restoration of the countryside of Northern France after four years of war 1/3
A book called "After the Ruins - Restoring the Countryside of Northern France after the Great War. The picture is a post-war tourist poster for visitors to Amiens.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Reflections on the river
Black and white photograph of a pool of water surrounded by trees, and with a bridge across it. The trees, bridge and clouds are reflected in the water.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Homeward bound
An evening sky with dark pink and grey clouds at top and bottom, and shades of blue in between. A flight of birds is crossing the sky.
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Sunset over Keble College Chapel
Yellow sunset over a religious building (Keble College chapel) with crosses and other roof decorations.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Colours by the canal
A canal with yellow leaves on the trees and on the towpath. Two canal boats are tied up at the right of the scene
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A brief break from worrying if the grandson has fallen in the water, or if the dog has dropped his ball, to look up at the trees and sky.
Autumn trees of gold and green and a blue sky.
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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With an iPhone on Port Meadow at sunrise at 04:42 on a June morning
Summer sunrise, with grass and trees at the bottom, then yellow sky rising to blue, with pink and purple clouds
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Thames treeline at the end of the day.
A line of trees showing black against deep blue and black clouds, with a strip of lighter sky between trees and clouds.
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Recent new visitors - a sparrowhawk in the garden and three parakeets at the end of the street.

Perhaps we could introduce them to each other in the hope that the sparrowhawk finds parakeet tastier than the sparrow whose feathers lie around it in this picture..
A sparrowhawk with its head turned over its left shoulder, showing its beak and black and orange eye. There are feathers on the grass around it from its recent kill. Three green parakeets sitting in a bare tree.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Early November 2021 down by the river. It felt as if winter had arrived.
Black and white photograph of a river scene. From left, a boat, a shed, a tall tree, and a bridge, all swathed in mist.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Don't worry, old dog. I'm sure you and my feet can find a way of sharing the space under my desk till the fireworks have gone.
A black dog curled up under a desk
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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There was a bagpiper out there this evening, alone with his dog in the middle of the meadow.
A flight of geese crossing a big field in early morning half-light. There is a row of trees in the distance. The sky is pale purple at the bottom, rising through yellow to blue at the top.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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OTD in 2023 Port Meadow was largely under water. This year I can walk down to the river bank (roughly where the cormorant is flying). The water levels fluctuate from year to year.
A boat on a river with a flooded meadow beyond. The boat is black and brown, with a grubby tarpaulin over it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Paddington Station at night, this week in 2023
Black and white photograph of a large railway terminus (Paddington) at night. It has a huge arched roof supported on pillars. A few people walk along the nearest platform.
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The rental bikes gather beneath the trees to chatter and charge before tomorrow's travels.
Electric rental bikes with glowing green lights as they charge. They stand in the dark beneath trees in autumn colours of orange and brown, with leaves scattered on the pavement.
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Freuds in Oxford's Jericho. Built as a church in 1836, latterly an entertainment venue, long closed. Standing outside in the dark, I thought I heard ghostly music.
Stone pillars of a closed-down church, with rusted pale green railings in the foreground. An almost bare branch hangs across it.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The railway line at sunset
A railway line with four tracks heading towards a distant bridge. The evening sun picks out the leaves of trees and bushes. The sky beyond is a pale orange below rising to a deeper blue above.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A present today - "Weekly Diary of World Events...1940-1943". At 1,725 pages, a book for dipping into rather than reading, but fascinating stuff
A large book called "Keesing's Contemporary Archives...1940-1943"
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Who needs Christmas lights when there are railway sidings nearby?
Bright white lights at railway sidings, with a sliver fence behind them.
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Binsey in autumn colours beyond the river.
A village among autumn colours of brown, green and yellow in distant trees.
November 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Egret and leaves
A white egret sitting among green and yellow leaves.
November 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Leaves after the rain
Raindrops on green and yellow leaves.
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I didn't intend to be up for sunrise, but I didn't mind that I was.
Sunrise beyond a row of trees, in colours ranging from pale orange at the bottom to deep blue at the top. Buildings and trees as the foreground to a bright yellow sunrise.
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM