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How to spell my name | How to say it. ¶ 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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51.38282, -2.36038

#Cityscape #Scape #BathUK #Shopfronts #Windows #StreetPhotography #Photography
A narrow pedestrian side street, lined with shopfronts. The laneway continues downhill, and a cyclist in a navy business suit and black helmet passes by. Colourful bunting and string lights zigzag across the thoroughfare and the pavement is a hodgepodge of red and grey paving slabs, red bricks, and pavement lights—glass lenses set into precast concrete to allow natural light into the space below. Outdoor tables and chairs are stacked to the side, soon to be deployed for a bakery's clientele. A woman in the window looks towards the camera. In the distance, the trees of Beechen Cliff are turning from green to red. New Bond Street Place (yes, that's the name), Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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51.45680, -0.97150

Shopping mall, 1930s style.

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Shopfronts #Retail #Photography
Looking down a corridor of an old-fashioned retail arcade. There are wooden shopfronts on both sides, with plate glass windows on the left and bow-fronted, multi-panelled glazing on the right. The pavement is terrazzo with inlayed black borders and the ceiling has a large skylight with blue and yellow accents. Harris Arcade is a 1930s Art Deco gem, now home to independent and specialist shops, from a milliner to a comic specialist, vinyl record shop to a tobacconist. Harris Arcade, Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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41.89629, -87.63567

Seeing that Chicago just had its first snowfall of the season reminded me of this shot, which I took on this day 12 years ago.

#Chicago #Snow #Cityscape #Trains #Tracks #Photography
A monotone snowy cityscape with elevated train tracks in an S-curve, as seen from above through the wire mesh of security glass. The CTA's Chicago & Franklin Brown Line stop was just below my former workplace, and I took this photo to capture the first snowfall of the 2013/14 winter. North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Photo by Gearóid Burke, 2013.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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#BlueSkyMonday #Windows #Photography
A wide-angle shot looking out from a window to an urban English back garden enclosed by wood panels. The sky above has cirrocumulus clouds and floating in front of them is a semi-transparent blue shape with 50 circular holes in it (48 of one size, two of a larger aperture). I had just peeled the protective film from a new stainless steel coffee machine drip tray cover and stuck it to the window, then photographed the result. Photography awards to Gearóid Burke, care of garrowed.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Fauré's Requiem. Tomorrow at the University of Chicago. events.uchicago.edu/event/253471.... Here's the poster that I designed for the concert. Photo by Annie Spratt, via unsplash.com.

#Music #Concert #Design #Posters #PosterDesign #Chicago #UChicago #RockefellerChapel
A layout for a poster promoting a classical music concert. At the centre of a plain pink background are the words Fauré and Requiem, one vertical, the other horizontal, centred on the common U. Behind the words is an outlined photo of two lilies. Photo by Annie Spratt, via unsplash.com. Design by Gearóid Burke.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Live from our kitchen countertop …

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekSForShadows #Baking #StillLife #Photography
An overhead shot of numerous small, pale spheres on a striped grey cloth, with daylight coming from the right and shadows on the left. Ceramic pie weights (AKA baking beans) drying after a post-use wash. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Making typographic animations with spacetypegenerator.com/flash is an excellent way to procrastinate when there is actual work to be done. Here's a quote from Edgar Allan Poe.
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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51.456163, -0.97843

#BlueSkyMonday #LookUp #Architecture #Windows #ReadingUK #RDG #Photography
A wide-angle photograph of contemporary apartment buildings reaching up into a deep blue sky. The structures' facades are a mix of wide grey metallic cladding panels and plain white render. Some of windows have brightly-painted architraves. The Honister, Hunsaker, and Hewitt buildings, Chatham Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Cheesy #pareidolia shot.

#cheese #photography @pareidolia.bsky.social
A slice of Emmental cheese on a white plate. Three holes have formed in this cross-sectioned piece of curdled bovine milk product and seem to form a face. These cheese holes are called eyes, so it's not actually that much of a stretch to point out the apparent pareidolia here. The plate also features a crumb of cheese and three salt crystals. The background is a scratched stainless-steel tabletop which is reflecting the red of the smartphone used to capture this image and the hands of the photographer. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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52.15666, -10.46015

Clogher Beach⁩, ⁨Kerry⁩, ⁨Ireland⁩, August 2022.

#WeekRforRock #Cairn #Kerry #Ireland #Beach #Atlantic #Photography #SpeirGorm
Rocks and stones, stacked to form a cairn on a beach, with peninsulas, an island, and the Atlantic Ocean in the background. ‎⁨Clogher Beach⁩, ⁨Dún Urlann⁩, Kerry⁩, ⁨Ireland⁩. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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51.37910, -2.36023

SL | ⅃Ƨ
AB | ᗺA

#TagTuesday #StreetArt #Graffiti #BathUK #Photography
A yellow-hued stone wall is splattered with bird excreta and has faded red stains in places (after graffiti removal, perhaps). A steel checker-plate ramp leads to a loading bay door which had once been painted blue, but is now mostly bare, weathered metal. A large, four-letter tag has been spray-painted on the rolling shutter, spelling SL on the top line, and AB below. These are bold, white, rounded letterforms, outlined in black. To the right is a standard security door in bright blue, extensively covered in various smaller tags. Both doors have large outdoor lights above them and wire cabling between them. The plastic of the light-fittings have aged poorly, and are now a murky, translucent yellow. The image has been mirrored and its colours inverted, just because I like the shades of blue that the oolitic limestone makes when in negative. Wine Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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51.75031, -1.26110

#BlueSkyMonday #Oxford #Landscape #Cityscape #Churches #Spire #Photography
A partial skyline of a low-density city with four spires in the distance. The view is framed by a blank grey wall on the left and diagonal lines of an open-air escalator's handrail on the right. The sky is bright blue and features a line of stratocumulus clouds. Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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51.37976, -2.36087

Once there was hope, now there are AirBnB apartments.

#ChurchOnSunday #BathUK #Architecture #GeorgianArchitecture #Signage #Photography
A church building in a terrace. A pair of arched doorways (though the doors have been replaced by plate glass windows) with a Corinthian column between them, above which is a round window and a shallow pediment. The second level has a trio of windows, the middle having a smaller Corinthian column as a mullion. Below the window ledges, the yellow limestone has the name Hope Chapel carved into it. The pediment has "United Methodist" on the ascending diagonal and "Free Churches" descending. The facade dates back to the 1860s, though the building is older than that. The Methodists vacated the premises in 1913, and now there are flats, most of which seem to be available as short-term holiday rentals. Lower Borough Walls, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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51.38036, -2.36061

#Scape #Cityscape #BathUK #Architecture #Windows #Bollards #Photography

Architects: grimshaw.global/projects/cul...
A wide-angle photo of a round cornered, green-hued, glass panelled building. Behind the glazed facade is a stone tower-like structure with small circular windows. The edifice stands on a corner and is encircled by black bollards. On the right, a Georgian townhouse is clad in scaffolding and orange netting. Beau Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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51.38030, -2.36065

#UrbanGaze #BathUK #Architecture #Windows #Photography
A wide-angle photo taken in a narrow lane lined by two Georgian oolite limestone buildings. Just ahead is a rounded, green-hued, glass panelled building. Behind the glazed facade is a stone structure with small circular windows. Further away, a townhouse is clad in scaffolding and orange netting. Thermae Bath Spa by Grimshaw Architects, as seen from Bilbury Lane, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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51.38058, -2.36068

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #Architecture #BathUK #Photography
A facade of frameless green-tinted panelling, behind which is a stone structure with small circular windows. The building is in a strongly contemporary style in contrast to its Georgian surroundings, such as the chimney stack and windows reflected in the glass. Thermae Bath Spa by Grimshaw Architects, Bilbury Lane, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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51.37910, -2.36023

WINCH: #TagTuesday on the mean streets of Bath.

#StreetArt #BathUK #Photography
The back of a retail store features two large vents, a three panel window, and a loading bay with a folding shutter door. Above the bay is a simple flat canopy, and above that is some graffiti that reads "WINCH" in blocky white letters with black outlines. There are red splodges of paint at the top of the letterforms, with stylised drips descending from them. The initials SPS appear in a smaller size to the left, and to the right is the number 24. Wine Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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51.38141, -2.35936

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical: Jacob's Ladder

#BathUK #BathAbbey #Sculpture #Churches #Photography
A photograph of a section of a large Perpendicular-Gothic style church. A ladder is carved in stone with five angels ascending—and one descending—the rungs. From circa 1520, the west facade of Bath Abbey, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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51.38761, -2.36015

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #BathUK #Architecture #GeorgianArchitecture #Photography
An oolitic limestone building featuring a 3 × 3 grid of tall, arched windows on its first through third floors. This rear entrance to a larger structure is set back from the street, and is preceded by steps in matching Bath stone. Through the glass panes we can see flights of stairs. The Old Walcot School from 1840 by James Wilson, converted to apartments in 2002. Guinea Lane, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Here's a poster that I designed for a concert on Thursday. If you're in or around Chicago, maybe you'd be interested …
events.uchicago.edu/event/252622...

#Music #Concert #Design #Posters #PosterDesign #Chicago #UChicago #RockefellerChapel
A layout for a poster promoting a classical music concert. In the centre of a plain orange background is a large stylised treble clef in white. Within the counter space of the symbol are three photographs: a sculpture of St Michael that appears over the doors of the venue, an interior shot with a choir in gowns being conducted, and a organist at work. The main heading reads "Rockefeller Chapel Choir Choral Evensong." Design by Gearóid Burke.
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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51.38072, -2.36168

Escape

#BathUK #Architecture #GeorgianArchitecture #Photography
At the centre of a Palladian-style arcade of round arches, a dark passageway leads to an open gate—and another yellow, Bath stone building. A small tree and red flowers grow in a planter to the left. An off-white drainpipe is attached to the wall on the right. St John's Foundation, Chapel Court, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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51.232048, -2.320105

Projects

#UrbanGaze #Streetscape #Frome #Somerset #CoffeeShop #ProjectsFrome #StreetPhotography #Photography
A couple of customers and a dog at a table outside an independent café, early on a Sunday morning. The mid-terrace, three-storey Georgian building with a large glass shopfront has been painted terracotta orange in contrast to the grey and stone facades of its neighbours. In the sky above, grey rainclouds move in from the left. The Bridge, Frome, Somerset, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Light through yonder window breaks (across the dining table).

#ColorADay #RedWed #Light #StainedGlass #Photography
Sunlight, from a window with a red stained glass panel, on a dining table. Photo by Gearóid Burke. (No colour adjustments, honest!)
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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51.45713, -0.97011

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #Museums #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
An interior photograph centred on a a tall Gothic window with a cusped roundel at the top. The glass is obscured by blinds to block UV rays and therefore reduce the risk of fading and damage to the Roman artefacts in the room. This is Reading Museum, and display cabinets can be seen on either side of the image. Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Constructed in 1872 to the designs of Alfred Waterhouse. Photo by Gearóid Burke. Through the fine mesh of a UV-blocking window blind we can see the top floors of a Georgian-style building with rectangular multi-panel windows and the neo-classical façade of another. Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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51.23058, -2.32274

Another shot from my trip to Frome a couple of weeks ago: a great gate on Paul Street.

#Frome #Gates #Doors #Metalwork #Sculpture #Photography
On a sloping pedestrian street, an entrance in an old stone wall is covered by a decorative double gate. Designed to resemble giant blades of grass or reeds, and made of green, vertical metal strips, tapering at the top, with some pieces bowing left and right, particularly along the bottom. The ground below is decorated with terracotta tiles, and weeds grow along the verge. Paul Street, Frome, Somerset, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM