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George O. Wood
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🧑‍💻 Computer Scientist
🎓 PhD Candidate @ epic.ncl.ac.uk
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📷 Photographer #LongLiveFilm
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Phoenix did some very unusual things with the low-pressure sodium lighting in York Station. I metered properly, exposed well, but the result was… rather green. 💚

📍 York, UK

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #HarmanPhoenix200

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #Film #Architecture #Newcastle
An ultra-high contrast, dark, and heavily green-tinted photograph of a curved railway platform and track within the arched train shed of York Station in the United Kingdom, taken at night. The high-contrast, monochromatic green cast gives the image an eerie or night-vision aesthetic. The platform curves sharply to the right in the foreground, with the track running alongside it. Architectural details on the left, such as the arches and stonework of the station building, are dimly visible under the green light. A few figures are walking in the distance on the right side of the platform, and a bright, warm orange light from a distant signal or lamp contrasts sharply with the green dominance in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Happy (late) Halloween. 🎃
A full-body shot of a person standing in a bedroom, wearing a Halloween costume. The costume consists of a white, hooded hazmat suit splattered with fake red blood and green slime, paired with elbow-length red rubber gloves, a face visor over a splattered mask, and a stethoscope around their neck.
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I’m a bit biased having lived here for quite a few years now, but I think it must be said… Newcastle is a very pretty city.

📍 Newcastle upon Tyne

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #KodakGold

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #Film #Architecture #Newcastle
A low-angle photograph of a modern, multi-storey building featuring a glass facade and a prominent, bronze-coloured external metal grid. The warm light of late afternoon or early morning illuminates the structure. In the upper left corner, the dark green leaves of a tree branch frame the shot against a pale sky.
August 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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These are a couple more holiday snaps from Fuerteventura earlier this year.

📍 Fuerteventura

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #KodakGold

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #Film
An interior photograph of a bright, modern room. In the foreground, a white table holds a laptop, a potted plant, and a blue water bottle. Behind the table, an open-tread staircase with wooden steps and a white metal railing ascends against an off-white wall. A low-angle, close-up photograph of a thatched beach umbrella against a pale, cloudy sky. The dry, brown straw is woven around the dark metal frame, with small gaps revealing the sky beyond.
August 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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A pair of nesting swans, leaving footprints in the wet mud.

📍 Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #IlfordHP5Plus

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #Film
A black and white photograph of an urban landscape featuring two white swans. One swan sits gracefully on a small patch of cobblestones surrounded by a muddy, unkempt riverbank or ditch. In the background, a second swan can be seen further up the bank, near a parked car and scaffolding. A cobbled street slopes upwards into the distance, with an overgrown hedge lining a brick wall on the right. A high-angle, close-up black and white photograph capturing the texture of wet mud. The surface is densely covered with the criss-crossing tracks of small bird footprints. A prominent circular impression is visible in the mud on the left, alongside scattered twigs and other debris, all highlighted by harsh, direct light.
August 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Old legend meets young masterpiece. 🎞️📷

#PentaxK1000 #Pentax17 #LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Pentax #Photography #Film
A close-up photograph of two Pentax film cameras resting on a light-coloured, wood-grain table. On the left is a modern, compact Pentax 17 camera in black and silver, with its lens cap on. To its right is a larger, vintage Asahi Pentax K1000 SLR camera, also in silver and black, with a 50mm lens attached. The background appears to be the interior of a train carriage.
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#Lomography is the vibe today. On our holiday, I gave my partner a roll of film and a cheap plastic “reusable disposable” camera. He was quite confused why.

Anyway, these are a couple of exposures I gratuitously stole.

📷 #KodakM35
🎞️ #KodakGold

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Lomo #Photography #Film
A young man with dark hair and glasses relaxes sideways on a grey sofa, leaning against a yellow cushion. He wears a white t-shirt and dark shorts, holding two fingers up to his face in a thoughtful gesture. The photo has a distinct film grain and a cool, purplish colour cast. The same young man stands indoors, looking towards the camera while eating a snack from a white packet. In the background, a modern, white, open-tread staircase dominates the scene. The image, likely taken with a flash, has a grainy, film-like quality with greenish shadows.
August 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My better half, looking stunning. From our holiday in Fuerteventura earlier this year.

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #KodakGold

#LongLiveFilm #BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography
A young man stands at a bus stop in a sunny, warm location. He is in profile, looking to the right, wearing sunglasses, an olive green sleeveless t-shirt, dark shorts, and a black backpack. The bus stop is a modern concrete structure with dark pillars. In the background are white buildings and palm trees under a hazy blue sky. The photo has a warm, grainy aesthetic characteristic of film photography. A young man with dark hair leans casually against a dark post outdoors, smiling at the camera. He wears round, reflective sunglasses, an olive green sleeveless t-shirt, and dark shorts. His right arm is bent behind his head, revealing a tattoo on his upper arm. The background shows a road, a house with a terracotta roof, and a palm tree under a bright blue sky. The image has the warm, grainy quality of a film photograph.
August 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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This selection came from a recent Alanis Morissette concert at The O2 in London. It was a great show, courtesy of my dad. These were mostly “expose and hope” shots, around four seconds each; I’m quite happy with how they turned out.

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #KodakUltraMax

#LongLiveFilm #Photography #Film
A wide, elevated shot of a massive concert in a stadium at night. The stage is brilliantly lit with purple lights that also illuminate the vast audience. A band performs on stage, with a large screen behind them showing a photo montage and a side screen showing a close-up of a female performer. A view of the packed, multi-tiered seating at a large stadium during a concert. Thousands of audience members are visible. A brightly lit middle tier features corporate boxes with logos for The O2, Nescafé, and Qatar Airways. A wide, elevated view of the same concert, now with the stage and massive crowd bathed in dramatic red lighting. Red beams of light cross the stadium. On stage, a large screen behind the performing band displays bright white text. An elevated, wide shot of the concert stage, lit by bright white and blue spotlights that create prominent lens flares. A huge screen behind the performing band displays a large black-and-white photograph of a smiling woman. The vast crowd fills the stadium seats.
August 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This still life was an inadvertently personally descriptive composition, which fell into place while I was tidying. I just looked up and thought, “Huh, that might make a good exposure.”

📷 #PentaxK1000
🎞️ #KodakUltraMax

#LongLiveFilm #FilmPhotography #Photography
A warm-toned photograph of a cluttered tabletop with various personal objects. In the foreground, a brown leather wallet sits next to a green and black box of Ilford HP5 Plus black and white film. Also visible are a white wireless earbud case, a silver Victorinox pocket knife, and two dark ink bottles - one blue and one black. In the soft-focus background, there is a yellow radio and an empty pint glass.
August 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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This was such a throwaway shot for me, on a flight to Fuerteventura in spring. In fact, if I remember correctly, it was my first exposure after loading a new roll. But it is actually one of my favourites from this holiday - I love when that happens. 🎞️ #35mm #PentaxK1000 #KodakGold #LongLiveFilm
A view from a passenger's seat looking down the narrow aisle of an aeroplane. In the middle of the aisle, a flight attendant with blonde hair tied back is seen from behind, wearing a dark uniform with red straps. Other passengers are visible in their seats. The out-of-focus profile of a person is in the foreground on the right.
August 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Out for some Czech pivo (beer) with my Czech man. 🇨🇿
A half-drunk pint of Pilsner Urquell sitting on a rustic table in an atmospherically-lit room.
June 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Google: “You will have this marketing email because we’ve decided it’s mandatory!”

Oh, the joy of trying to unsubscribe. Mandatory spam is a new one, though.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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When did this become a normal ratio of shorts to long-form videos, YouTube?
March 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Well done, the BBC. Perhaps journalistic integrity isn’t completely dead yet.
Two notifications from the BBC News app. The first reads: “Breaking News Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China come into effect as Toronto and Beijing retaliate - follow live” The second reads: “Breaking News Correction: Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China come into effect as Ottawa and Beijing retaliate - follow live”
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Just got home from a lovely day of volunteering at St James’ Park with my wonderful St John Ambulance colleagues.
Me, smiling, wearing a green and black fleece jumper, with a green and yellow high visibility coat over the top.
February 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I love stationery very much. I know that’s a rather self-deprecating admission, but it’s true.

Collecting, maintaining, and using fountain pens, along with delightful notebooks and other goodies, brings me immense joy.

Unfortunately, my dyspraxia afflicts me with awful handwriting. Fate is cruel.
A piece of lined paper with handwritten text in blue ink. “I began working towards my PhD around a year and a half ago. Several metamorphoses down the line, I’m now mostly trying to develop novel approaches to public education, to equip the [obscured] with the skills and [obscured] required”
February 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A screenshot of the Advanced Data Protection page on iPhone Settings. The text at the top reads: “Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users.”
February 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Mine's broken...
February 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Spending the day shooting 35mm film at the coast is a wonderful way to spend a Sunday.

These, alas, were shot on my phone, but I’ll follow up with some film highlights when they’re developed.
A beach with large, rough waves coming towards the shore. Several people are on the beach; some are surfing, others are swimming, and some have dogs. In the distance is a bay, and a church with a pointed steeple is towards the head. A beach with rough waves coming towards the shore. Several surfers are in the water, and many people are walking on the sand. A church with a pointed steeple can be seen in the background, as can some white houses.
February 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Step back for a moment, and try to strip away the modern connotations of the word “woke”.

Now think for a second about what it *actually* means.

Imagine your entire political identity consisting of an active opposition to this…
A screenshot of a dictionary definition of the word “woke”. woke adjective aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality: • She urged young black people to stay woke. • disapproving He said that many of these so-called woke individuals never actually engage with the marginalized groups they claim to defend. • While you're obsessing over your diet, people are starving in the world. Get woke. • He's so woke, he suggested we go to the Women's March. • You can take a quiz to test how woke you are. • I'm a woke black girl and I'm not gonna let anyone push me around.
February 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Exhibit A…

I have literally never shown any interest in content of this type, nor have I ever been recommended it.
A YouTube video thumbnail for a video called “🚨WOKINGHAM’s £5.5M WOKE ROUNDABOUT”, from the channel “Majority Unsilenced”.
January 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I love CARROT Weather 😂
A screenshot of a weather app. The symbol is a cloud with rain. The temperature is 4° (feels like 1°). The text is: “You have to leave the WHO and the Paris Agreement behind if you're going to play on nightmare difficulty.”
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This, people, is an official website of the Government of The United States of America. Fucking hell.
A screenshot of the Department of Government Efficiency website, taken on Tuesday 21st January 2025. The page is black, with a 'dogecoin' logo centred. At the top, the text "Department of Government Efficiency. The people voted for major reform" appears. Above that is the header "An official website of the United States government".
January 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Good lord this is vulgar...
A screenshot of the White House website taken on Tuesday 21st January 2025. A picture of Donald Trump pointing to the left is front and centre, with the words "AMERICA IS BACK" superimposed on top. Underneath in smaller text is written: "Every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America."
January 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM