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wenlax
@wenlax.bsky.social
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Mostly photos taken while walking around my city and country.

Other interests: art, others' photos, buildings, maps, nature. Unless otherwise stated, photos are my own. 📷 Nikon
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Toffee factory, Ouseburn, Newcastle. Former Maynard's factory, red brick, chimney, against a blue sky. Low sun, a lot a shadow. A woman waking, silhouetted against a brick wall.
June 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral reflection, with pyramid over Lutyens' crypt.

2023 #photography #buildings #architecture #Liverpool #reflection
Photo of two apparent buildings. One, closer and to the left, a small concrete pyramid, with vertical walls and a double door at ground level (this isn't actually ground level but is above the crypt of the cathedral). The second, behind and to the right, is a modern glass university building (with alternating windows and window shades). Reflected in the windows of this latter building is the upturned funnel of the Cathedral roof, as well as the blue sky.
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Camberwell, #London, 2011.

1940s cinema >> bingo hall >> Pentecostal church

#photography #streetphotography #building #brick #people #child
A street scene. Primarily a photo of a large brown brick cinema, with blue painted, highly faded exterior at ground floor level. Several vertical black poles - drain pipes as well as street poles. A man and child are walking along the street. The sun is out.
February 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Rotherhithe tunnel, #London

2024 #photography #tunnel #Thames
Photo of a road tunnel curving away to the right. The walls are tiled, white but grimy. No cars.
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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After the storm.

Folkestone. November 2022
#photography #coast #ukcoast #England #storm #clouds
A picture of sea and sky and a sliver of shingle beach. The lower section is of a dark, brown sea churned up by strong winds in the English Channel. It has been raining heavily for hours, but that has stopped now, and the sky has just brightened. Still cloudy - but while the clouds near the horizon are a deep blue grey, higher up they appear almost brown or peach.
February 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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At the end of the day. Whitstable, Kent.

Autumn 2023 #photography #phonephoto #England #sea #sunset #fishing
A photo of the sea and sky at dusk. The sun has set and the sky is orange near the horizon. In the centre of the vertical image, a dark stack-like structure rises. A man with a large net is walking in the water close by. The sky is reflected in the water's surface.
February 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It will apparently look something like the below... The last time I was nearby there was no facade yet, but you could see the overall form.
Image of a planned office building on Holborn viaduct - mainly modern glass, with vertical fins. Image from a construction website.
February 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Thanks SA - I'm fond of that postwar brick style, and would have liked to have seen it in person.

The building under the scaffolding in my picture is this (via Stephen Richards @ geograph)
A street view. Between the white exterior metal columns of a building that hides the entry to City Thameslink railway station, and on of Holborn viaduct's step buildings, lies a 1970s grey concrete building of around 8 storeys. Photo by Stephen Richards uploaded to geograph.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The walkway over the Dome, North Greenwich, #London.

August 2023 #photography #people
A close up photo of the top of what was previously known as the millennium dome - a huge white, circular marquee, whose roof is supported by 12 yellow towers (one is visible) and cables at all sorts of angles. A group of seven people are walking down an inclined path suspended above the dome's roof - one person well ahead and looking back at the others. The yellow of the supporting tower stands out vividly against the mainly blue sky.
February 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Holborn Viaduct, south east corner.

October 2022 #London #photography #streetphotography #buildings
A Victorian corner building clad in white stone, on the edge of a viaduct. The building (containing steps to move between road levels) is framed against a background of white plastic-faced scaffolding covering neighbouring buildings.
February 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Early morning in Finsbury Park.

May 2024 #photography #London #park #sunlight #dog
An urban park, grass and green leaves on trees. Low angled light from a rising sun illuminates a man and a dog in the middle distance. The air is misty. Thin trees in the foreground are silhouetted.
January 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Take off!

Sparrows in Hove, #England.

#photography #birds #sparrows #flight #nature #ukwildlife
A photo taken looking down a concrete raised promenade with metal railing. Numerous sparrows - facing to the left - are just taking flight, with wings extended. One is in flight ahead of the others.
January 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs, #London.

January 2025 #photography #city #maritime #history #Greenwich #CanaryWharf #Thames
Taken from a hillside, looking north. We see, bottom to top: the lower part of Greenwich Park (with the shadow of the royal observatory), the Queen's House, the old royal naval college, and finally the modern residential and office towers of canary wharf (across the Thames, which isn't visible)
January 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Excellent image in the quote post.

Mine below is from 2011, looking quite different, and a little worse for wear.

Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre & Hannibal House.

#photography #architecture #buildings #postwar
Partial view of a 1960s office tower, clad in green panels and glass. In front, a low rise cream-painted concrete building. This latter building is topped by red signage "Shopping Centre", bookended by two red elephants balancing on castle towers (though one elephant has only a back end). In front, there is an elephant and castle statue, apparently salvaged from the earlier Victorian pub (here the tower sits on the elephant). The whole scene is run down, peeling paint, weathered materials.
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Cullercoats, North Tyneside.

October 2023 #photography #coast #sea #England #Tyneside
A grassy green, with sea behind, and sky in the top half of the image. In the centre is a small brick building with two curved ventilation pipes on top. The thin roof overhangs, and the sun is low, making an acute angled shadow. The base of the building is not visible as the ground curves down. To the left a man - just the top torso and head - is visible above the ground. To the right, and further away, long harbour arms with small lighthouses, and waves crashing against.
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Colonnade of the 1950s reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos, in the Agora of #Athens.

#photography #Greece #architecture #marble #columns #agora #stoa
17 or so white marble columns, one behind the other, receding into the distance. The top portion of each column is fluted, the bottom more cylindrical/polygonal.
January 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Norwich House, #Liverpool.

2023 #photography #building #architecture #brutalism #concrete #mirror
Zoomed in photo of a distinctive 70s office building. Three floors, 6 windows per floor showing. Following description courtesy David M Gray (Flickr) "The ... floors are clad in textured precast concrete panels with slightly projecting multiple copper mirrored windows, each linked to the one above by vertical ribbing." The top left window in the image has been replaced with a modern window in a completely different style.
January 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Landslip at Houns Tout cliff, Dorset.

June 2024 #photography #coast #England #cliffs #landslip #SouthWestCoastPath
A view of a coastal headland, with a recent landslip visible in vegetation-smothered slumped cliffs.
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A wet day in #London.

Clapton 2023 #photography #streetphotography #rain
A photo of a London street corner, with two 5 story residential brick buildings, a couple of trees and painted road markings. There are no cars. A man, well covered and all in black, crosses a side street. It's raining very heavily.
January 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Another X on the River Lea, #London.

This one fitting for Burns Night 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#photography #canal #ukcanals #reflection #lightandshade #Burns #Scottish #Scotland #Saltire
Taken under a bridge, a photo of a canal. An oblique strip of sunlight is reflected in three distinct ways, creating a St Andrews cross, centred on the water's surface
January 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Two trains, sea.

East Sussex, 2023 #photography #UKrailways #sea #coast #England
Photo from inside a train carriage looking through some empty seats at a single wide window. The railway is right by the sea, separated by a beach. This scene however is only visible in one third of the window. A passing train - fast, as shown by motion blur - obscures the rest.
January 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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National Theatre #London temporary auditorium, 2014.

#photography #streetphotography #red
A bright red painted timber clad wall, in the centre of which is a door built flush with the wall. Painted on the ground in white is a box, with the words FIRE EXIT
January 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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#Alphabetchallenge #WeekDforDanger

An old quarry in Staffordshire
In winter heathland, an old sign stands above a floor of dried out ferns. On a white background a black figure with arms raised is half submerged. White capitals on black read "QUICKSAND"
January 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The moon through frosty glass.

Good night bluesky x
A photo taken at night from beneath a loft window covered in icy frost. The moon is visible as a bright white smudge. Surrounding this is what looks like a circular galaxy of dotted white points of various brightness.
January 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Maybe it's time for a #Robin

#birds #uknature #London
A small brown bird, with white and orange breast. On a concrete post looking to the right. Cute rounded shape, I think I'd like to be that shape. Deep green leaves in the background.
January 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM