Mark Crean
@markcrean.bsky.social
Life. Laughter. Camera. In Oxfordshire. Cake an important fuel. Or sausages.
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The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning.
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Autumn
#LandscapePhotography
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#Autumn
Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts.
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#Buddhism
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The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025.
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Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025.
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Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire.
#BlackandWhitePhotography
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#Winter
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The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been.
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Wonderful evening, wonderful photographer. And there are lots of Photo Oxford events now on around town. For more, see photooxford.org
So lucky to have been in conversation with the amazing and pioneering photographer Joel Meyerowitz, for the 2025 Richard Benson Lecture in the Reproduced Image @bodleian.ox.ac.uk part of our contribution to PhotoOxford!
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wonderful evening, wonderful photographer. And there are lots of Photo Oxford events now on around town. For more, see photooxford.org
Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.
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photooxford.org
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October 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.
#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford
photooxford.org
#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford
photooxford.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
October 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.
One in the eye for the horrid gammons. Further on, Britain could not have managed in WWII without massive help from the Commonwealth, eg 2.5 million men in the British Indian Army alone.
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
One in the eye for the horrid gammons. Further on, Britain could not have managed in WWII without massive help from the Commonwealth, eg 2.5 million men in the British Indian Army alone.
In Swanage, Dorset. There is none finer. We always head straight here on our first evening in town.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In Swanage, Dorset. There is none finer. We always head straight here on our first evening in town.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
By the chain ferry at Sandbanks. Just a few more miles and we’ll be on the Isle of Purbeck for the first time in six months.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
By the chain ferry at Sandbanks. Just a few more miles and we’ll be on the Isle of Purbeck for the first time in six months.
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Just a few of this year’s bumper crop of chillis. We’ve several plants of different kinds. Fortunately plenty of relatives like them too or otherwise we’d be taking massive heat all winter.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Just a few of this year’s bumper crop of chillis. We’ve several plants of different kinds. Fortunately plenty of relatives like them too or otherwise we’d be taking massive heat all winter.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Autumn arriving in Blenheim Park this morning. Always fun to walk around and a good excuse to coffee-up in Woodstock first.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Autumn arriving in Blenheim Park this morning. Always fun to walk around and a good excuse to coffee-up in Woodstock first.
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The last blooms from one of our favourite roses, still going strong in the autumn sun.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The last blooms from one of our favourite roses, still going strong in the autumn sun.
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Late afternoon light in Oxfordshire on a stroll around the village today, now that the autumn equinox is here. Roving bands of finches are skittering across the fields. Soon, the redwings and fieldfares will arrive from Scandinavia.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Late afternoon light in Oxfordshire on a stroll around the village today, now that the autumn equinox is here. Roving bands of finches are skittering across the fields. Soon, the redwings and fieldfares will arrive from Scandinavia.
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More of autumn at Rousham House in Oxfordshire. Just too tempting to photograph when we have a string of sunny early autumn days.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
More of autumn at Rousham House in Oxfordshire. Just too tempting to photograph when we have a string of sunny early autumn days.
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Angles within angles and frames within frames: an open doorway in the gardens of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, yesterday.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Angles within angles and frames within frames: an open doorway in the gardens of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, yesterday.
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#BlueSkyArtShow #angles #Oxfordshire #EastCoastKin
Autumn arrives at Rousham House in Oxfordshire. It’s easily the most atmospheric time of year here.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Autumn arrives at Rousham House in Oxfordshire. It’s easily the most atmospheric time of year here.
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#Flowers
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