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Ah yes, Manchester rain! Kept the cotton moist so it wouldn't snap! 

My commute was 19 miles, half through open countryside so I was hardly unaware of the seasons. But walking gives a different perspective. Although I always did a lot of walking in the summer holidays and a bit at Easter I generally missed the autumn. Feel like I've got it back. 

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At first I thought this was some ornate 18thC door.

Hanover, Germany: Aerial view of the Great Garden, part of the Herrenhaeuser Gardens. The Great Garden is a baroque garden that includes lawns, hedges, walkways and statues arranged in strict geometrical patterns Photograph: Julian 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/sep/29/photo-highlights-of-the-day

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London-centric

Some beautiful shots of London along with a short essay balancing up London's achievements against criticisms of its dominance. 

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Nice picture, Shawn.

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Curbar, Derbyshire woke up to a blanket of mist on 26 September. Photo by Ian Letchford.

 

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Atmospheric sunset over a bog pool at a nature reserve in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands on 29 September. Photographed by Alan Hendry.

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Watching the sun rise at the summit of Mam Tor, Peak District. Photo by Adrien Hay, taken on 26 September.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34391831

 

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Autumn creeps forward in north Nottinghamshire (last Wednesday):

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Different landscape - Spurn Head in East Yorkshire, a 3 mile sand spit where all the bits of Yorkshire that fall into the sea get washed up:

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Looks like this from above:

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Real bugger hanging onto that seagull to get this shot. 

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Not quite a landscape...but almost...

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An autumnally coloured leaf is photographed covered in dewdrops near Oberstaufen, Germany

A different landscape:

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Portions of the Martian surface shot by Nasa’s Mars reconnaissance orbiter show channels on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/03/the-20-photographs-of-the-week

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How we used to live.

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Elland, a mill town in Yorkshire. 

I doubt if you could do this any more? How could you hold your iPhone? 

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A street corner in the Black Country, West Midlands, January 1961.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/03/hull-international-photography-festival-in-pictures

 

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Yorkshire, UK - Mike the horse captured on an autumn morning by a local amateur photographer
 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/05/photo-highlights-of-the-day#img-4

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This pumpkin field in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire was photographed by John Earnshaw on 30 September.

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Enjoying a bird's eye view - Paul Haxby took this photo while paramotoring in the Peak District on 2 October.

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Pretty sunflowers fill a field in the Cotswolds on 3 October. Photo by Pete Llewellyn.

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Fog blankets these fields in Buxton, Derbyshire on 1 October. Photo by Terry Baker.

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A beautiful misty scene taken in Leeds, West Yorkshire on 2 October by Michiko Smith.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34445038

 

 

 

 

 

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I think they call them 'bits' round here/ You have to be careful how you phrase your order.

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Seen from above, potash evaporation ponds create an eerie beauty in America's Utah desert.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/08/flying-photographer-captures-a-jewel-in-the-desert-potash

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An expedition into deepest Tibet in search of new ECM covers.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/oct/08/a-journey-to-the-jianggendiru-glacier-in-pictures

 

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The public art installation "Spheres at MacArthur Park".  Many of the 2500 hand painted beach balls were produced by school children in the Los Angeles area.  

 

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Up in't Pennines again:

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Haven't checked this but I'd imagine the mills here would have started in the late 18thC when water power required fast flowing streams - I think I saw 1906 on one mill in Marsden but would imagine industrialisation wouldn't have been far behind Arkwright's mills further south.   

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My attempt at a Monet! 

When I set out on Friday the skies were blue and the trees were an absolute riot of autumn colour. Unfortunately a thin layer of high cloud descended at Huddersfield and stayed there over two days. Pity as the trees need the sun to bring out their colours.  

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Up in't Pennines again:

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Haven't checked this but I'd imagine the mills here would have started in the late 18thC when water power required fast flowing streams - I think I saw 1906 on one mill in Marsden but would imagine industrialisation wouldn't have been far behind Arkwright's mills further south.   

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My attempt at a Monet! 

 

Monet didn't work in little squares. More on the way to a Cézanne, I'd say!;)

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Monet didn't work in little squares. More on the way to a Cézanne, I'd say!;)

I thought you'd know the right painter! Though I can't imagine either in Yorkshire! 

[This board seems fond of random little squares (or rectangles !!!!]

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Godalming: The sun rises over the River Wey in Surrey: Photograph: Alex Glen/REX Shutterstock

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/11/the-weekend-in-pictures#img-7

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Mù Cang Chai, Vietnam: A woman from the Hmong ethnic group carries a grass basket on a terraced paddy field during the rice harvest season in north-east Vietnam Photograph: Kham/Reuters

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/oct/04/the-weekend-in-pictures#img-5

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Indeed!

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Some aerial views of Australia:

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The Diamantina river, which stretches through South Australia and south-west Queensland.

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An eroded desert landscape.

If I was the sort of chap who relayed tiles in the bathroom...

Other lovely shots here:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/oct/13/australia-from-space-beautiful-and-bizarre-images-iss-astronaut-scott-kelly

 

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A new-build apartment block in London’s Docklands. (or "Building flats for working families")

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2015/oct/16/rooftop-views-the-world-from-above-in-pictures

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Nature’s studio category winner: Jessica Winter - Resting place. Bar-tailed godwit and knots, Holland.

Best viewed full screen here:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/apr/27/gdt-nature-photographer-of-the-year-2015-in-pictures#img-12

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A rainy autumn morning in a pine forest in Fürstenwalde, Germany.

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Cranes fly to their feeding sites over Linum, Germany

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/oct/16/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

 

 

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