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Photograph of the sea with a pole sticking out with a triangular wooden shape on the top, upon which a bird sits. A hazy blue sky is behind.

Perch

Photograph of a white hand holding a 99 whipped ice cream in a cornet, with a chocolate flake poking out to the right and a light grey wall behind.

Possibly the best 99 I’ve ever eaten

Photograph of a paved floor with a metal and wooden pole emerging from the centre of the frame, with rusty marks around it, and a wet humbug to the right of it, in similar rusty colours.

Colour match

A test shot with last year's nigella seedheads. The print shows an ornate white fireplace with a fern pattern on it, with a dark green painted wall behind and a small black vase on the mantelpiece to the left, with dried nigella seedheads in it.

A test shot with last year’s nigella seedheads

Photograph of a carpark with 5 seagulls sitting in the spaces that are marked out with white painted lines, one of them stretching its wings out as it's just landed. In the centre is a metal pole with the letter 'C' in black on a white square mounted on it. Behind is a hedge with plants and tree protectors, and grey sky above.

Parking is for birds too

Photograph of a plate with an illustrated scene of a steam train and a canal boat on the surface, it is being held against tree by climbing plants.

Not the first decorative plate I’ve seen here

Photograph of a metal and wood bench, painted green, with an ornate fern pattern on the back and sides. Below is a tarmac path and there's a grass lawn behind.

I still think about how lovely this bench is

Colchester, UK, September 2024. Selective focus photograph of snowflakes, mostly out of focus, with a very out of focus garden behind. In the lower left corner of the frame part of a bistro table and chair set can be seen, with dappled sunlight catching yellow leaves of a cherry tree and grass to the right.

It just snowed and it’s still BST

Colchester, UK, September 2024. Photograph looking down at a wooden bench with a box of 'Gloveman' Clear Vinyl gloves on it.

Gloveman

Stockholm, Sweden, August 2024. Photograph of a frayed length of yellow ribbon tied to a metal railing, blowing in the wind, with another metal railing above and below. In the background is grey water of a river and concrete floor at the bottom of the frame.

Yellow

Grinda, Sweden, August 2024. Photograph of tiny leaves/petals caught on cobwebs around pine foliage, which looked to me like star glitter sprinkled on a Christmas tree.

Decoration

Stockholm, Sweden, August 2024. Photograph taken at night of a lit up sign saying 'HOMETOWN', on scafolding on a bridge with lots of signs and concrete blocks around as it's under construction. In the distance the moon can be seen bright orange, almost full. In the foreground a person on a bike is cycling past, blurred with the motion.

HOMETOWN

Photograph of a worn-looking feather wedged into a metal bracket attached to a metal bar to the right. Sunlight is falling on the feather so it looks like it's in a spotlight, with shadow below.

Spotlight

Stockholm, Sweden, August 2024. Photograph looking down into a river, with round orange floats connected with black poles to the left, weeds across the dark water and fallen leaves catching the light on the surface.

Float

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph looking down at a wooden floorboard floor, painted black and worn, with paint, dirt and glass across it. In the lower right of the frame is a length rope, curled so it looks a bit like an ornate J.

J

Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph of a white plastic chair with circular holes evenly distributed across the surface, in the sunlight at the side of the road. Behind is a building with diagonal yellow planks across the walls, with white-framed windows and green plants along the bottom and growing up and arching over the chair.

Rest spot

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph of an arrangement of sequins meant to be worn on a forehead as decoration, stuck on a mottled beige wall.

Sparkle

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph of a wall, brick at the top and concrete in the lower third, with a cross of medical plasters (one beige, one pink unicorn) stuck over a cracked part of the wall.

Fixed

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph looking down at a broken bike chain lying on a cobbled road, with larger concrete slabs at the bottom of the frame.

Unchained

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph of an ornate architectural element framing the top of an oval on a wall, with eyes and mouth with tongue poking out drawn in red marker within it, so the ornate part resembles hair. To the right is an ornate bar lining the length of the frame.

:P

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph of an old banana skin draped across a red-topped metal fire hydrant, which is worn from water leaks. Behind is part of a pavement and cobbled street to the right.

Not a bin

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2024. Photograph across a street to a large metal trolley that's been left in the middle. Behind are trees, parked cars and buildings.

Trollied

Photograph looking down at a wooden picnic bench splattered with juice from fallen mulberries.

Mulberry

Photograph of the side of a Funeral Director's building, with an empty white noticeboard that has had a red cross sprayed on it, to resemble the England flag.

It didn’t come home

Photograph of a black wooden kitchen chair in the road outside a house, with traffic cone to the right behind. The house has a light blue wooden facade, British and US flags flying and black wheely bins. In the distance is a construction work sign, a car park and buildings including a church.

Reserved

Chelmsford, UK, August 2024. Photograph looking down at paving slabs with colourful glitter caught between the joins. To the right is a red brick wall., UK, July 2024. Photograph of a small plastic empty gum ball machine on a concrete pillar, with a bridge across to a building behind, with a sign saying 'OneBeyond' on it, and deep blue sky with whispy clouds above.

Possibly related to the previous post.

Photograph looking down at paving slabs with colourful pick 'n' mix spilt on them.

Pick ‘n’ mix

Photograph looking down at paving slabs with colourful glitter caught between the joins. To the right is a red brick wall.

Glitter

London, UK, July 2024. Photograph of writing on a door saying 'Have a heavenly piss'

Have a heavenly piss

London, UK, July 2024. Photograph of writing on the back of a door that says 'Do you fuck (with is rubbed out) Jude Bellingham' with boxes with 'yes' and 'no' underneath, the yes box ticked and ' DUHHH' added beneath.

Do you fuck with Jude Bellingham?

Photograph looking down a a tarmac pavement with pink post it notes in three sections, one in the centre with drawings on them. There is a melted icecream and sprinkles in the lower portion and wooden planks of a bench are in the top of the frame.

Pink

Photograph of a pole with a pedestrian crossing box that says 'Push button, Wait of signal' on it above a round metal button. On top of the box is highball glass with clear liquid and a slice of lemon in it. Behind is a street scene with a white car on the road to the left, people walking along the pavement in front of shops to the right.

With a slice

Photograph of a chimney breast with an open white wooden door showing a tumble drier inside at the top and empty cardboard boxes and rubbish below. The wall of the building is a salmon colour, there is a traffic cone, freestanding sign saying 'Private Car Park For' and an airconditioning unit to the left, gravel and concrete area in front and black sandbags lined up to the right.

Tumble drier in a chimney

Photograph of a large doll's 'Girl's World' style head on a tarmac pavement next to a low brick wall with a green bush and front of a house with sage green front door behind.

Looking on

Photograph of a wooden wall with a metal speaker or light in the centre, with cobwebs all around it. Shadows of trees are on the right hand and lower portions of the frame.

Webs

Photograph of a black wooden building with red paint squirted on it in a thin line up and curving back down. The line is broken across the planks of wood. There's a notice in a frame and part of a window visible at the top of the frame and to the right and behind is a concrete path, lawn, plants and the top of a house.

Disconnected

Photograph looking down at a concrete path with multiple splatted strawberries and blueberries dropped on the ground. A black grate runs along the side of it and a black brick wall fills the top half of the frame.

Fruit salad

Photograph looking down at a concrete path with muddy footprints that start a few feet into the scene. A green bin is visible to the top of the frame, white metal fence to the left and lawn to the top right of the frame.

How did this begin?

Photograph of a grey wall with a black handprint in the centre, dappled sunlight above, part of a purple sign to the top left, an A4 printed sheet taped below that saying 'WET PAINT'. Part of a white sign/window is visible to the right and a small amount of metal barrier can be seen at the bottom.

WET PAINT

Photograph looking down at a paved pavement with a piece of blue rope lying on it in a loop, coming from a pipe in the ground at the top of the frame.

Very tempting to pull

Photograph of a utility cover in a pavement with cobbles and paved areas and a yellow spray painted marking on it. At the back of the cover a wide tree is growing out of the ground, shaped around the rectangular cover. 'HONE IT' is written in a portion of cement to the left.

Coexistence

Photograph of dried dripping grey paint on a windowsill below a window with small reinforced panes with bars behind and brick wall below.

Slow drip dry

Colchester, May 2024

Colchester, May 2024

Daisy Chain

The Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, in Colchester, Essex, May 2024

An incredible sight

Photograph looking down at grass and weeds, with a bit of tarmac and dried grass at the bottom of the frame. On the grass is (from left to right) 4 souvenir shot glasses with illustrations of tourist destinations on them; a small framed painting of a lake scene with islands and birds in a yellow-ish tone, with streaks of what looks like tomato seeds on the surface; a loop of white string.

I very much want to know the story here

Photograph of a thin blue and black plastic tape in a long squiggly mess at the side of a tarmacked pavement, with dead leaves and a bank of green ivy leaves to the left.

Some sort of tape

Photograph of a red strawberry lace sweet on a pavement, in a squiggly shape. There are remnants of chewing gum across the ground, a triangle of different tarmac-like material top right and part of a metal utility cover to the top left.

Laced

Photograph of a wooden and metal bench on a paved surface with road, buildings, crossing and planting area behind it. The bench has a yellow divider making one seat to the left and two seats to the right. Under the bench a load of tortilla chips have been dropped and broken on the floor.

Smashed

Photograph of weathered, broken wooden frame with nothing framed in it, in the top portion of the frame. On a peach, rough wall with bubbled and flaked plaster.

Seen whilst detouring

Photograph of a lost child's shoe on a wooden bench in a country park, with soil ground below and plants and trees behind.

Lost and Found

Photograph of a pedestrian crossing box with a red chilli pepper placed on the top. The text on the box says 'PEDESTRIANS, push button and wait for signal opposite' with 'WAIT' illuminated in yellow below and 'wait, cross with care' under that. In the background roads, shops and traffic can be seen out of focus.

Red hot

Photograph of a wooden surface with two partially removed white paper stickers on it, the one at top left has 'Suck Toes' hand written in black biro and 'MEN' in smudged red print to the right of that, slightly above.

Suck toes, MEN

Photograph of a dark sky with a large, bright rainbow going from the top left and down to the right. Under the rainbow is a large shop with 'You can do it' written to the left and 'TRADE POINT' to the right. In front are cars parked in a carpark.

The best rainbow I’ve seen for ages

Photograph looking down at the ground, gutter at the side of the road running along the bottom and diagonally from the bottom right and up to the left. Four round potatoes are lying in the road, caught in the cracks.

Potatoes!

Photograph of a bench with weathered peeling dark red paint revealing yellow paint beneath, on a wooden floor with metal railings on a raised floor behind, with worn white walls behind that.

Weathered

Photograph of a paved area with a plastic pink child's cooker and a small castle toy outside a house with white painted brick low wall, a tree, hedge and fence in the background and edge of the road to the right.

Little and large

Photograph of a black board with 'EVENTS THIS WEEK' and some logos on it, with the days of the week 'MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN' and empty spaces to the right for things to be written in. The board is mounted on a wooden building with a covered window to the right and a green door to the left.

No events this week

Photograph of a paved area with a cat scratch pole, a black bin bag and a child's scooter by a black lamppost. In the distance is an area of plants, a metal security fence and another black lamppost.

Scratch and scoot

Photograph of a tarmacced pavement with blue paint spilt across it, with a section of tree trunk to the upper left and wooden fencing to the top right of the frame.

SPLAT!

Photograph of a white fridge freezer on a pavement, with a black planter to the left that has plants and yellow tulips in it. The pavement below is paved with bricks and there are houses, a bike shelter and part of a van visible behind.

Outdoor Kitchen

Photograph of a section of old wood with a piece of waffle icecream cone on the top left, with pale green melted icecream trickling down and to the right. Behind is a grassy field and a blurry section of fencing with trees and plants behind.

A sad scene

Photograph of a black pole with an equestrian crossing box halfway up, to be pressed by people riding horses who wish to cross the road. Behind is a grassy field with trees and bushes in the distance and a cloudy sky above and in the bottom left corner is a portion of dusty path.

Equestrian Crossing

Photograph of a pavement with a large tarmac section upon which are scattered 4 pots of red jelly and a paper bag behind. To the right is a tree trunk and to the left are walls lining the path - one brick and one white. In the background the continuing path is paved with large slabs and then smaller bricks.

Jelly

Photograph of an area of wild plants and trees, with green-tinged wooden fencing to the rigth and tarmace to the left. To the left of centre is a black wooden chair with a red seat and to the right of centre is a dark green plastic garden chair.

Outdoor seating

Photograph of a brick wall with a brown gate in the centre, with grafitti of a person walking and opening a handle at the bottom, hearts, a cat and 'NYc' toward the top, and 'NARNIA THIS WAY' with a downward pointing arrow in black on the wall above the gate. Below is grass and weeds and above are branches and climbing plants.

Narnia this way!

Photograph of the top of an old-fashioned upholstered armchair visible behind a hedge of nettles and long dried branches, between two parked cars (the one to the right covered), with more greenery and a wooden post visible in the background.

Parked

Photograph of a child's black robot toy face down on the top of a black metal bin, which has green and grey lichen on it.

Face down

Photograph of a wire fence with a handmade sign saying 'Trees belong to the planet not you' with children's paintings of a tree, the planet, a bee, a dog and a rainbow on it, and a large wooden post to the left. Behind is an area with plants and trees and there is a paved area in front.

Trees belong to the planet not you

Photograph of an area of tarmac with soil and greenery behind. On the tarmac is a piece of brocolli and some chunks of watermelon are visible in the greenery.

Kitchen waste

Photograph of a green metal bin with a large branch of a tree poking out the top. The bin is on a grassy area, with hedges, a tree and large houses visible in the background.

Litter?

Photograph of a brick wall with rectangles of paint over the top in pale pink, peachy pink and purple, with a band of felted roof at the top and moss and weeds along the ground at the bottom.

Coverup

Photograph looking up at two hollyhocks with peach flowers, with blue sky with small clouds above it and a bit of wooden fence visible to the right of the frame.

Reaching for sunshine

Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, a single red rose above that, and double yellow painted lines above.

A single red rose

Photograph looking down on the top of a bin in a street, with an ashtray filled with cigarettes in the centre, and the black surround is covered in stickers from vape packets. The paved floor is visible around the edges behind.

Sign of the times

Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, a metal spoon face down to the left above that, and double yellow painted lines above.

A metal spoon

Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, road above that and a wooden child's toy with a lower case letter 'a' in green on it, and road filling the top portion of the frame.

a

Photograph of a painted white wall with an old-fashioned white lantern on the wall to the left, with a warm lightbulb on. The lantern is tilted to the right and a long shadow from it extends to the right. At the bottom right are handwritten letters partially rubbed out, 'Kevin... a cu...

Wonky outside the pub

Photograph of a box wrapped in red wrapping paper with ornate gold plant pattern, cellotaped toether. It is teal-coloured upholstered armchair.

An unexpected delivery

Photograph of a Pokémon Card on the floor in front of a brick step. The card is upside down, green and has 'Basic Engergy, ENERGY, Basic Energy' written on it and a graphic of a leaf in the centre.

Basic Energy

Selective focus photograph of a dying piece of blossom caught in cobwebs, top right of the image, with out of focus shapes behind, and another piece of blossom lower down to the left.

Suspended

Photograph of a handwritten message on a page in a book, which says 'To Paul, 30.6.78, with love from Lisbet', behind to the left and out of focus is more of the book, with the title 'PICTURES ON A PAGE' just visible.

Dedication

Photograph looking down at a Queen of spades playing card on the floor, with a drain at the bottom of the frame, and paving and paint elements to the right.

The Queen of Clubs

Photograph of a brown, dead Christmas tree on a pavement, with a blue car to the right, houses with walls and hedges to the left and a pole with '20' on a sign and the white trunk of a silver birch behind.

Evicted

Photograph of a brick wall with a white recessed area cemented in at the top, with a scene of small mice and a large blue character having a tea party, and BRICKFLATS written underneath.

A small scene in a wall

Photograph of a blonde Barbie-style doll in a pink dress with a blue-haired and blue-tailed mermaid doll. Both are face down on a pavement, which has moss growing in long lines of cracks and the bottom of a metal pole visible at the top of the frame.

I’m pleased to say these were gone when I came back – hopefully found by the owner.

Photograph looking down at a pavement made from bricks in a pattern arrangement, with colourful pieces of large rectangular confetti scattered across it.

Supermarket celebration

Photograph of a white ceramic bowl filled with nuts with a flavoured coating on them. The peanut in the centre of the frame has 2 dots on the top half and the line across the middle makes it look a little like a small smiling face.

A face

Photograph of a child's plastic toy microscope on a brick wall with black railings and a bush to the right.

Closer inspection

Photograph looking down at a white painted metal radiator with white metro tiles above and part of an 'airforce' hand dryer at the top. The radiator is rusty and has a hole in it, presumably where the water has been blown onto it.

The hand dryer effect

Photograph of an empty poster-sized frame leaning against bags of rubbish, in front of a red post box with stickers on, on a pavement with road to the right, shops and a red plastic barrier in the distance, and shops and scaffolding with yellow protective covering on it to the left.

Empty

Photograph looking down at a paved pavement with a ripped blue Lilo and Stitch gift bag to the left, smashed brown glass bottle and a head of a white rose strewn across. Along the top of the frame a brick wall can be seen.

Valentine

Photograph of a bright green painted chest of drawers on a piece of grass in front of the brick wall at the side of a block of flats, with a yellow fire hydrant 'H' sign and a strip of white above it, in front is a wide pavement and painted double yellow lines on a corner section of road and behind to the right is a carpark with a white car and more flats.

Upcycled

Photograph of a thick security vest in dark blue with reflective tape and a badge saying 'SECURITY', on the floor in a paved passageway between two houses, leaning on a short fence. Part of a house can be seen to the right and there's a brick wall and hedge to the left.

Security

Photograph of an old wall and pavement with a piece of old pipe sticking up to the left with an old, worn 6 of spades card caught on it.

6 of spades

Photograph of a souvenir shop in london with two people browsing in front of displays of things such as fridge magnets. Above the canopy of the shop an old sign saying 'florist' is visible in old-fashioned writing. The paved floor is wet from rain, there's a sign indicating that bikes are not permitted to the left and to the right is a freestanding map and information board, above which can be seen the word 'VAPE' in yellow on the shop behind.

florist

Photograph of the side of a carpark with broken bits of a dismantled bed with lift-up and drawer storage dumped against a low brick wall. Behind are windows and doors in a brick building and in the foreground are painted lines.

Not so hidden storage

Photograph of a single black chair and small black table in a paved area with glass screening behind. In the background is a large glass contemporary building with 'PRET A MANGER' in illunminated white writing and a wall covered in plants behind. Part of a pine tree can be seen in the top left corner.

Table for one

Photograph of a brick building with green and blue bins with '67' in large white numbers on the front, dismantled office furniture and equipment including a PC tower neatly lined up on the pavement next to them, in front of a window with white painted metal bars on the front. To the left is black door with a metal '67', door knocker and letter box,

Office refit

Photograph of some sort of folded up wooden screen with a piece of A4 paper taped to it with 'FREE' hand written in large letters. It is leaning against a cream wall, in front of a red brick wall and with pavind slabs below.

FREE

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