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Richard
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Husband, father, brother, son, great uncle. Enthusiastic, compassionate, inquisitive.

Images mine, except where noted.
📍 Leicestershire UK
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There were other genres of ceramicking as well...
Photograph of a porcelain tealight holder. Photograph of a rainbow collection of different shaped vases/jars. Photograph of an unusual collection of people, cats and other odd creatures created in ceramics. A photograph of more ordinary pottery at the Potfest show, 8 November.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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There was some amazing stuff on show.

Could have been this guy as well.
Closeup photograph of a ceramic red-brown bear, seemingly reaching out to sniff me.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Definitely eyeing me up, though.

I did also have this on my roll today (but not no 6).
"Sick As A Parrot" by Karen Fawcett Studios. This is a photograph of a scarlet macaw made in ceramic, lying on its back with its eye barely open. The bird has a thermometer in its break, a failed covid test in its claws and is surrounded by packs of pain killers.
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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You've just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
#photos #joinin
A turquoise lizard on a log! This one is ceramic and was on display at Potfest, Melton Mowbray today. Potfest happens also to be open again tomorrow (Sunday).
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The photographer at rest.
Photograph of the shadow of the photographer while sitting at a bench. The shadow stretches out vertically across the rather dry and dusty green near the war memorial of Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. The photographer's rucksack, red can of Coke Zero and phone cover sit along the bench in view.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadow
I've shared this photo before.
Photograph of large, bare trees along the A6, north of Leicester, in winter. The shy is clear blue and the sun is shining dark shadows onto the ancient brick wall to the left. January 2022. Somehow, the crisp brown leaves of autumn are still bronzing the feet of the trees
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadow
Photograph of a brightly lit, green wood. Tall, bright green grass stands between the trees. A path cuts from left to the middle back to the left, a bench is at the bend in the path and a totem pole with memorial plaques stands opposite. Dark trunks of the trees stand upright. breaking up the green grass are dark shadows. The trees are in the bright green of spring, I think. The Memorial Wood at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforShadows
A jacaranda tree, I think.
Photograph of a cobbled street with a low hedge and a jacaranda tree. The sea and the sky are visible beyond. The tree casts an intricate shadow onto the cobbles.
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I enjoyed this a couple of weeks ago, a cartoon by Banx:
Nobel Peace Prize Committee cartoon, "Just for fun, let's give it to Obama again."
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
The library at Chatsworth 🤩

I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library!

I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!
Photograph looking into the end doors of a dark room. The curtains in the left wall are all closed to protect the contents. There is a rich tapestried carpet with a blue circular design in the open centre. The walls are lined with dark wood bookcases. The room is listed with desks and chairs, some white-shaded lamps and two yellow-shaded lamps. The ceiling has richly decorated gilt-edged panels, wholly reminiscent to me of a French palace.
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Incredible sky this evening!
Photograph of a dark blue sky, illuminated by a distant set sun. High streaky clouds run in a ray-pattern, seemingly with the sun as the source. In the foreground, the Furniture Village store's bright blue sign and warmly lit windows stand over a shopping car park.
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Maybe not for long but there's a theme to it...
The theme will run across the day, with a Trump impersonator taking over from the Channel 4 continuity announcers, to deliver false information -- from misleading programme synopses to exaggerated runtimes -- as a sobering reminder of what can happen when once-trusted sources of truth cannot be relied upon.
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It's kind of all day!
Screenshot from channel4.com: "The theme will run across the day, with a Trump impersonator taking over from the Channel 4 continuity announcers, to deliver false information -- from misleading programme synopses to exaggerated runtimes -- as a sobering reminder of what can happen when once-trusted sources of truth cannot be relied upon.
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I should say all fruit! We have a crab apple tree that has been weighed down with fruit for weeks and my in-laws have a plum tree that was even earlier and heavily laden.

It has been a great fruit year: obviously *enough* rain here but much hotter and longer summer than usual.
Photograph of a crab apple tree above a laurel hedge, laden down to the ground. 12 August 2025
September 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Preparing for paintball battle.
A young man looks sideways at the camera, only his eyes and eyebrows visible within a strange motocross-style helmet, his dark jacket pulled up to the chin. Paintball! The photograph is mono but my recollection is that the helmet was black, anyway. I've simply moved to mono to remove the skin and background colour. 2017
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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What is the world coming to that we need rain warnings in the UK?!
Screenshot of part of my mobile phone screen, showing an alert, "Moderate rainfall warning ⚠️ Met Office".
August 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIforIconic
Old John, Leicestershire
Photograph of Old John, Bradgate Park, Leicestershire; evening. "Old John" is a stone-built 18th century folly atop Bradgate Park. It is an iconic representation of Leicestershire and the park. Photo, January 2020.
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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My Dad's neighbour has apples on his tree and isn't eating them. But I think they look like the ones the evil queen gave to Snow White, which has made me read the story of the Seven Dwarfs,

which I think is a perfect allegory for modern day scammers! Beware!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_D...
Photograph of an apple tree bearing deep red fruit.
August 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Email today,

"Congratulations, your image 'City Lights' has been awarded the runner up position in our competition..."

🥳
Photograph of a shop front at night. It has been raining. A warm glow emanates from the window and illuminates the pavement in gold. "Cosmo" shines the white sign above the mullioned windows. In the foreground, the ruts worn by spiked winter tyres reflect shards of the shop front in the sharp, angular puddles which contrast with the soft Hopperesque glow of the pavement. Kristiansund, July 2024. Night.
August 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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How's your garden? Mine is parched but the crab apple tree is fully laden with fruit, its branches almost touching the ground.

My wife hates the tree for the fruit it drops but I think it has done so well this summer that it looks entirely MAJESTIC.
Photograph of a crab apple tree growing out of the top of a laurel hedge. The fruit is a mix of scarlet, pink, peach, yellow, lemon and lime. The branches fall out and down in long cascades of colour, the nearest just a hand-span from the ground.
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"Cathedral" by Kevin Atherton
📷 by me.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGforGlass

www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk
Closeup of "Cathedral" by Kevin Atherton in the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail: what appears to be a stained glass window from a church. 2022. A view of "Cathedral" by Kevin Atherton in the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail: a stained glass window is suspended high in the trees above a footpath, the blue and yellow of the glass most visible against the woodland background. 2022.
August 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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#WeekGforGlass
A view from the top of the London Eye, sunset. The Palace of Westminster can be seen on the right bank of the Thames and view to the south in the distance. In the foreground, one of the pods of the London Eye is filled with people enjoying the view. I love the colouring in this photo. June 2019.
August 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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When you're waiting in a queue and keep getting to no 2 in the queue but your mobile phone provider disconnects you because the call has taken too long to answer.

Guess what time they're open 'til? It wasn't Leics County Council that cut off any of the calls, just my mobile provider: "timed out"
😡
Screenshot of my calls this afternoon to the same number: 16:26, 15 minutes, 32 seconds; 16:42, 15 minutes, 32 seconds; 16:57, 15 minutes, 32 seconds.
August 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Are we ok with paintings or drawing occasionally? Just photos?

For example, the first thing I've found in my photos is a snap of one of my drawings: a young man with short dreadlocks. He looks like he's sitting next to an open fire because of the colouring.

What do we think? Honest question.
Photograph of a soft pastel drawing in reds, orange, yellow, white on dark grey card. A young man with dreadlocks is illuminated from the side.
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Beautiful pink, wouldn't you say!
Photograph of crab apples ripening: pink hues of different strengths illuminate the crab apples on a close-up of the branches of a tree. 20 July 2017.
July 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM