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philbixby.bsky.social
@philbixby.bsky.social
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Architect and Passivhaus Designer in York, UK with a passion for sustainable & community-based projects, half of myfutureyork.org & part of yoco.uk. Makes B&W photos on film, rides bikes for pleasure & utility, and leans to the political left.
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Yesterday evening we visited Hamilton, Canada, with www.yoco.uk plus @colville-andersen.com plus some Hamilton residents (thanks to extensive family networks!). *Really* good discussion, reflecting on York - and I've blogged it at www.yoco.uk/blog/the-lif...
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Firmly in thermal image camera weather now, so here's the cat enjoying the underfloor heating
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Final reminder for YoCo's next Screenings & Discussions event on Zoom! 7:00pm-9:00pm next Monday 24th Nov - join us online to visit Hamilton in Canada & share thoughts about what we can learn about making our own cities more life-sized. Free booking via YoCo's website at www.yoco.uk/events
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Say what you like about a wet weekend but by heck it's an opportunity to get stuff done - it's been solid printing / cutting / folding here, meaning I now have a (very limited) stock of Marginal, my photobook. Better work out how to sell it or there'll be a lot left for next year's #yorkopenstudios
A photograph of a very large composite photo print spread across a table
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A gift for the next romantic

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of the splintered trunk of a fallen tree, upon which someone has left a few carnations and stems of grasses
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Too much to take in at once

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph taken into the twigs and branches of a fallen, leafless tree, with a shallow depth of field
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We are encircled

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of a pair of coots facing one another, surrounded by a circular pattern of ripples in the water, accentuated by reflections
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A river runs beneath it
Leeds Railway Station

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph showing a vaulted culvert with a sizeable river running through it, with bright light at the distant end.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I seem to have heard lots of discussion this week about what culture is, where it happens and what it means, so a good reminder to plug the www.yoco.uk screening & discussion on Monday 24th Nov. Join us for free to find out what Hamilton can suggest for our own cities - www.yoco.uk/events/the-l...
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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After the rain

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of droplets (in and out of focus) on the leaf of a castor oil plant
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Autumn will for now define me, and I will define it

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of a low-hanging branch with autumnal leaves, with trees and leaves on the ground out of focus behind
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Sinuous you say

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of a wooden handrail and its complex shadow beneath a number of overhead lights
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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No idea why I bother with design - working with a brief and thinking through rational responses - why don't I simply have a competition for every decision? Bath in the kitchen? Give it your best shot! Bother with a roof or just go for nicer skirtings? C'mon roof-lovers, bid! What *is* this nonsense?
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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With one stride

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph taken with a wide angle lens looking up at the underside of a brick-arched bridge crossing a road on a diagonal route, sweeping from bottom left to top right of the image.
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Just passing through

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph showing a row of cottages alongside a street, with a tall railway viaduct passing close behind (and very much above) them.
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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These dark evenings give us more time for blog-writing - two new ones at www.yoco.uk/blog prompted by our recent Life-Sized City screening and discussion on Antwerp. A write-up & links from me, and some thoughts on activism from Chris Bailey. Sign up to YoCo's mailing list for news of future events!
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Beauty may fade, but

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph looking up at the outside of an old industrial building, with rusting window frames and stained corrugated cladding. Weeds grow in the foreground on a roof projection.
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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If you take planning your social diary seriously - the next Screenings and Discussions event organised by www.yoco.uk is on the evening of Monday 24th Nov. Visit Hamilton via Zoom, and join us in discussing what we might take away to shape change in our own city. Book via www.yoco.uk/events/the-l...
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The past will gently envelope us

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of the painted identification tag on a railway bridge concrete base, faded and indistinct
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Just sorted my annual retention fee of £225.00 to ensure I'm still an architect next year. Gone up a bit since I qualified, eh?
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We're just a week away from the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social Open Days and here in York we have a special treat in the shape of Fulford Passivhaus and ten years of occupancy data! A real chance to find out how Passivhaus works in practice - free booking via www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/event_detail...
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Moving unseen through the city

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of a curving railway line in a cutting, surrounded by trees, with foreground bridge parapet and vegetation out of focus.
November 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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You are invited

Beneath the tracks at Retford station
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph taken through the vaulted passenger tunnel at a station. There are steps leading up into light at the far end, and peeling white paint on the walls, washed by the rhythm of the central overhead lighting.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Some of this repurposing goes over my head (underside of bridge, Retford)

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of the underside of a bridge, apparently made entirely out of railway components - sleepers carried on inverted rails, with old-looking cast fixing brackets used with irregular wedges of timber.
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Written in the heavens

B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
A black and white photograph of an advertising poster with a geometric background, set against a clear sky with contrails replicating part of the pattern. The poster reads "Join our creative community"
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM