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📷 Ian Charters

📷 Ian Charters

@iwcharters.bsky.social

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📷 Photographer in NW England No AI, no Photoshop and no focus stacking or blending. One photo, one click. All my own work, except for reposts.

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📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 21h

Northern Folk
#manchester
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

Two people rushing across the road with a bus approaching and the Big Wheel in the distance. Shops and Office blocks on both sides of the road.

Man crossing the the tracks turns to look at an approaching tram. The tram station is on the left with the Midland Hotel in the background.

Two people walking away from the camera after rain. Shops and office blocks frame the couple and the Big Wheel can be seen in the distance .

Man walks towards the camera, speaking on his phone, shops and office blocks behind with the Big Wheel in the background.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you very much.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 1d

Northern Folk
#wigan
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

Mother and Daughter in town shopping. Walking towards the camera, the mother with her walking stick, the daughter with her shopping bag. Shops and office building form the background as other people walk away.

Lone figure walking under the railway bridge into the daylight beyond on a rainy day. Tiled wall on the right with shops in the distance.

Two people walking towards the camera under the railway bridge into the darkness on a rainy day. A bus stop and office building form the background.

Man reading a newspaper walks past an advert exhorting “Smile”. Travel Agent’s shop forms most of the background. Another figure in the distance walks towards the camera with a row of shops forms the background.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, I'm glad you like the photos.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 5d

Time flies....😳

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 5d

Today on the Towpath
#classicmono
#photography
#timeandplace
#eastcoastkin
#blackandwhitephotography
#canal

A narrowboat surrounded by weeds in a basin at the end of the canal. Trees surround the canal and there is a bridge over the canal in the distance/

A canal bank with two narrow boats and a small brick building.

Details of the roof of a narrowboat with another narrowboat beyond. Both moored to the canal towpath.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Jilly

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 8d

Northern Folk and Winter Sunshine
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

Two people, as silhouettes, walk away from the camera towards a height barrier across the road. The sun shines through the trees casting strong shadows.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 8d

Alphabet Challenge
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekRforRock

Rock pool surrounded by gnarly rock with huge cliffs in the distance and a blue sky above, reflected by the water in the pool and the sea beyond.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday to one of the best.

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 11d

So quiet and....wet.
Good morning ☕
#WeekQForQuiet
#AlphabetChallenge

Silhouet of windmill in dense fog on a dike on the left. Soaked, bleak looking farmland with large puddles stretching before me into the fog.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks James - the wet pavement works a bit of magic.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 16d

Great set Dean.

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Dean Forbes @deanforbesphoto.bsky.social · 16d

Light & shadows in Grasse, France. #photography #blackandwhite #fujifilm #France

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks Andrew.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 16d

Northern Folk
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

A young woman reading a magazine walks towards the camera while two men sitting on a bench beyond watch as she walks past them. An office block forms the background.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 16d

Northern Folk
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

A man walks towards the camera in a street in a northern town after rain. Pavement and road are wet and shiny. People in the distance walk away and buildings on the other side of the road form the background.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 16d

Alphabet Challenge
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekQforQuiet

An empty street in a northern town after rain. The pavement and road are shiny and have puddles with reflections. Street furniture runs from the foreground to the background. The dark cloudy sky suggests more rain. The street and pavements are completely empty.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 19d

Alphabet Challenge - Madrid
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekPforPink

Outside an ice-cream shop a life size manikin wearing a pink shirt holds a cone with pink ice-cream. Beyond customers queue to buy ice-cream.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 25d

That's true!

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, just as you say Rob

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John @sinnerjohn.bsky.social · 26d

St Michael's Mount

#Scape #photography #TFIF #b/w #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 26d

Northern Folk
A man seems to be praying to statue of Fred Dibnah (a local steeplejack and TV personality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dibnah)
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

A man standing with his head bowed by a statue, as though praying to it. Behind in a large metal and glass case is a large steam engine of the type once used to drive machinery in local factories

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 26d

Northern Folk
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky

A couple in town shopping together walking with great purpose towards something of interest, out of shot. They carry bags of shopping. Shops form the background behind them.

📷 Ian Charters @iwcharters.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you John