Mundane pictures of the North

[farmerbarleymow]

A typical Pennine mill town, with flying freeholds visible I think.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some more typical moorland scenes.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Old abandoned building #1.

ETA this is my favourite picture of the day. I like how the golden sun lights up the roof tiles on this decrepit building, with the typical Pennine fields divided by dry stone walls in the distance.



Old abandoned building #2.



Old abandoned building #3 - aka Shit Farm. I've posted a couple of pics of this in the Hebden thread, but here are more of them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A verdant mundane Northern lane. I picked some lovely fresh brambles along this lane to eat as I walked along.

 

[Orang Utan]

You're making me all maudlin about Yorkshire, farmerbarleymow.
That never happens!

 

[Shirl]

A mystery building with a rusty oil tank. A hodgepodge of different building types, all tacked together, but with no indication of what it is.

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The mystery building was the Hebden Dye works. There was talk of building houses on the site a couple of years ago but nothing seems to have come of it.

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[Shirl]

I love this thread! I wish I had a decent camera.

 

[Fez909]

I love this thread! I wish I had a decent camera.

Just use your phone, assuming it's got a camera on it. That's all I use (and others).

 

[Shirl]

Just use your phone, assuming it's got a camera on it. That's all I use (and others).

Really? I thought people here were using expensive cameras. My phone has a decent camera on it but maybe it's my skills more than my camera that need to improve

 

[Fez909]

Really? I thought people here were using expensive cameras. My phone has a decent camera on it but maybe it's my skills more than my camera that need to improve

Some people have posh cameras, aye. But it's not a requirement. Nor is amazing photography skill (check my images!).

Just photos of every day things..come in, the water's lovely

 

[killer b]

i think cartier breson said, the best camera is the one you have with you. you can get fucking great pics out of the camera on your phone these days too

 

[neonwilderness]

I think most of my better photos on this thread have been taken with my phone rather than my proper camera

 

[Throbbing Angel]

guess where

 

[neonwilderness]

Morcambe (judging by the statue )?


Has anyone done Blackpool yet? My grandparents used to live there when I was younger, apart from the illuminations I can remember it being fairly shite

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Really? I thought people here were using expensive cameras. My phone has a decent camera on it but maybe it's my skills more than my camera that need to improve

I don't, and there'd be no point in me buying a pricy camera as I'm totally clueless when it comes to photography! I use either my camera (less than £200), or my phone, depending on what I've got with me. The phone camera is pretty basic and I leave the camera on the auto setting as I didn't inherit the photography gene from my dad who was a bit obsessed with cameras (much to my mam's annoyance given how much money he spent on them!).

I just point and press, hope for the best, and take a second shot as an insurance in case the first is rubbish. When I'm out for a day taking pictures for this thread I usually end up with hundreds of pictures, most of which are a bit iffy for some reason so never get used. I've just went through my mundane trek folder, and I've got 5,371 pictures in it, and I've got around 1,300 reduced size copies in my posted folder so I must have posted around that number on the thread. I've also just realised that I've clocked up 143 miles for the thread too - I'll be expecting a cheque for shoe leather from Fez909 in due course!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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I love that picture.

But I do trust that you went into the shop and lectured them about the apostrophe abuse.

http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Morcambe (judging by the statue )?


Has anyone done Blackpool yet? My grandparents used to live there when I was younger, apart from the illuminations I can remember it being fairly shite

Blackpool would be excellent - the epitome of a slightly run down British seaside resort.

I've still got a lot of ground to cover in Manchester's southern bits, and have hardly touched Salford yet. But we're still missing Sheffield and Liverpool, and the Teesside area.

 

[purenarcotic]

Morcambe (judging by the statue )?


Has anyone done Blackpool yet? My grandparents used to live there when I was younger, apart from the illuminations I can remember it being fairly shite

We've just come back from a holiday there. I shall have a browse.

They are mostly pictures of the sea though.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I love that picture.

But I do trust that you went into the shop and lectured them about the apostrophe abuse.

http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

Dammmmmmnnnnnnnnnn themmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I hadn't even noticed that - I was too busy fecking around with that shit phone from the other thread - which is what I took these photos with.

I was trying to cover the mundane side of things as per the thread title.

 

[neonwilderness]

Next thread - "Greengrocer's apostrophes of the North"

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Next thread - "Greengrocer's apostrophes of the North"

I did once - foolishly with hindsight - point out this error in a greasy spoon in Salford. The response was a look of utter incomprehension as if the woman had not understood a single word I'd said.

Needless to say, I don't bother commenting on them anymore!

 

[killer b]

I posted a couple of Blackpool pics early in the thread. i have some more from the same trip, give us a minute...

 

[cyberfairy]

We have a large archive of depressing Blackpool pics on Piccassa. It lends itself to crumbling dereliction combined with tacky neon juxtapositions just so so well...

 

[cyberfairy]

 

[killer b]

Mmm atkinsons...

 

[davesgcr]

Did several meetings at Blackpool - the chemists advertising in large letters , hangover cures , cheap fags and and condoms sort of set it up. The gaming places also offering free tea .....

Not quite Las Vegas methinks - (what is striking apart form the rows of naff looking boarding houses with cheap replacement windows and no doubt polyster sheets was the real lack of greenery , trees or flowers)

It may have changed , I hope so.

 

[cyberfairy]

There has been a fair bit of money plowed into it (see also Morecambe) but concrete and pastry still reigns supreme.

 

[cyberfairy]

Preston is not weathering the recession well. All the nice little shops have gone and even the shit big shops...