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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 2h

Bishop Street, #Sheffield November 2024 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of the junction of Bishop Street and Fitzwilliam Gate in the centre of Sheffield taken in November 2025. The building shown is the now closed Wickes DIY store daubed in graffiti, soon to be redeveloped into flats. A man is walking down Fitzwilliam Gate in the dark early evening. A no entry sign into Bishop Street and a a yellow grit bin are being illuminated by a bright light

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2.0 Fujinon
Aperture/speed/ISO : f2 1/52s ISO1600
Simulation : Classic Chrome (with tone equalizer)

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 1d

"beKind" Cemetery Road, #Sheffield April 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street #mono

Black and white image of the Keating tower block in Leverton Gardens, Sheffield taken from Cemetery Road in April 2025. To the right is a tree not yet in leaf and in one of the windows of an apartment about half way up the 15 storey block someone has written "beKind" on a sheet

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox (cropped)
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/200s ISO125
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 1d

Platform 3B, Doncaster #Railway Station, June 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street #pub

Colour image taken inside The Draughtsman Alehouse on platform 3B at Doncaster Railway Station in June 2025

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f1.4 1/34s ISO160
Simulation : Classic Chrome

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 2d

I remember studying this in A level geography over 40 years ago, the example being in Switzerland I think. Never needed to know anything about it since but it pops into my head from time to time and it's one of my favourite words, it just sounds so good..

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 3d

Marygate, York, August 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a woman preparing to take a seat at some red, silver and black tables and chairs on a small patch of ground by St Mary's Abbey walls in York taken in August 2025

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f1.4 1/4000s ISO125
Simulation : Classic Chrome

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 4d

Weston Park bandstand, #Sheffield September 2025 #fujifilm #photography

Colour image of the bandstand in Weston Park, Sheffield taken in September 2025. Built around 1900 it is the last surviving example in the city

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2 Fujinon
Aperture/speed/ISO : f4 1/210s ISO125
Simulation : Classic Chrome

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 4d

Hallamshire Hospital, #Sheffield March 2025 #fujifilm #photography #mono

Black and white image of a distant Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield taken from Hangingwater Road in March 2025. Above the building, lit by sunshine, are several rows of well defined clouds

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 75mm f1.8 Samyang (cropped)
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/1600s ISO125
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 6d

Pound's Park, #Sheffield, January 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour wide angle image of Pound's Park, Wellington Street in Sheffield City Centre taken at dusk in January 2025. The park opened in 2023 stands on the former site of the city's fire station and is named after its first superintendent Charles Pound.

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f2.2 1/34s ISO800
Simulation : Velvia

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 7d

West Highland Way near Beinn Dòrain between Bridge of Orchy and Tyndrum, Scotland, October 2024 #fujifilm #photography #landscape #mono

Black and white image taken on the West Highland Way between Bridge of Orchy and Tyndrum in October 2024. The view is towards Beinn Dòrain and shows a string of telegraph poles snaking across the foreground on a misty morning

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 70-300mm f4-5.6 Fujinon @ 300mm
Aperture/speed/ISO : f5.6 1/450s ISO400
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 8d

Gray's Inn Buildings, Rosebery Avenue, #London June 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a silhouetted woman walking past the Gray's Inn Buildings on Rosebery Avenue, London in June 2025. Most of the scene is in heavy shadow with the building itself a pinkish-maroon colour with occasional grey filth

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 75mm f1.8 Samyang
Aperture/speed/ISO : f1.8 1/3000s ISO125
Simulation : Classic Chrome

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 9d

The brutalist grade II listed Moore Street electricity substation from Headford Street, #Sheffield January 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a silhouetted figure walking along Headford Street past Moore Street electricity substation in Sheffield January 2025

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f1.4 1/34s ISO800
Simulation : Velvia

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 10d

Inside one of the knife grinding workshops at the restored Shepherd Wheel in the Porter Valley, #Sheffield, October 2024 #fujifilm #photography #history

Black and white image Inside one of the knife grinding workshops at the restored Shepherd Wheel in the Porter Valley, Sheffield taken in October 2024

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2 Fujinon
Aperture/speed/ISO : f2 1/52s ISO2000
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 11d

From 1st July 2021 (not a Wednesday)

Photo of a board covered in old historic newspaper cuttings from a mystery place in Bristol

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 11d

Edwyn Collins, Albert Hall, Manchester, October 2025 #photography

Colour image of Edwyn Collins performing at the Albert Hall in Manchester on his farewell tour in October 2025, taken on a mobile phone

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 12d

Birmingham New Street, October 2025 #fujifilm #photography #rail #trains #red

Colour image taken at Birmingham New Street railway station in October 2025. Several signals set to red are reflected in the side of a CrossCountry train service about to head north

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2 Fujinon (cropped)
Aperture/speed/ISO : f2 /152s ISO640
Simulation : Velvia

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 13d

Harland Miller : XXX, York #Art Gallery, August 2025 #fujifilm #photography

Colour image taken in York Art Gallery during Harland Miller's XXX exhibition of his 'Letter Paintings' series which ran from March to August 2025. An elderly woman on a mobility scooter passes a series of small paintings one one side of a gallery. In the foreground is a wooden viewing bench seen end on

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/34s ISO2500
Simulation : Velvia

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 14d

Moorfoot building from Young Street, #Sheffield January 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street #mono

Black and white image of the ziggurat like Moorfoot building against a clear sky taken from Young Street, Sheffield in January 2025

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2 Fujinon
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/125s ISO125
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 15d

Early morning mist over Tyndrum, Scotland, October 2024 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a row of old cottages with corrugated roofs in Tyndrum, Scotland taken early morning in October 2024. Behind them mist rises against a backdrop of pine trees

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : Fujinon 70-300mm F4-5.6 @ 70mm
Aperture/speed/ISO : f4 1/105s ISO250
Simulation : Reala Ace

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 16d

..one for @jonpountney1.bsky.social whose great photobook, "Valleys" arrived today!

Colour image of the front cover of "Valleys", a crowdfunded photobook by Jon Pountney

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 16d

St Ives, Cornwall, March 2012 #photography

Colour image of boats in the harbour at St Ives in Cornwall taken in March 2012.

Camera : Panasonic DMC-Z27
Aperture/speed/ISO : f4.5 1/640s ISO80

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 17d

Billiter Street, #London June 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street #mono

Black and white image of 30 St Mary Axe also known as The Gherkin in between other very tall buildings on Billiter Street in the City of London taken in June 2025

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm 1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/250s ISO125
Simulation : Monochrome +R with tone equalizer

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 18d

Grape Lane, York, August 2025. This lane is one of several similar examples in England bowdlerised from their original #medieval names reflecting their economic activity or function. #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a rack of scarves attached to a black door outside a shop in Grape Lane, York taken in August 2025. A sign says "Buy 1 Get 1 Free £5" To the left is a showroom dummy in front of the building's brickwork

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 75mm f1.8 Samyang
Aperture/speed/ISO : f2.0 1/450s ISO125
Simulation : Classic Chrome

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 19d

It's The Hope That Keeps Us Here / Mark Titchner, Arundel Lane, #Sheffield January 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Colour image of a slightly peeling billboard on Arundel Lane, Sheffield taken in January 2025 featuring the work of Mark Titchner which reads "It's the hope that keeps us here". This collaboration with Buildhollywood appeared in cities across the UK. The picture was taken at dusk with a brightly lit window on the building above and to the left.

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox
Aperture/speed/ISO : f1.4 1/34s ISO160
Simulation : Velvia

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 20d

Sontag, Holborn, #London January 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street #mono

Black and white image of three young people sat in the window of Sontag, a minimalist coffee shop illuminated by very bright lights on Kingsway in Holborn, London in January 2025. All three are working on laptops. A woman across the street can be seen in the reflection

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 35mm f2 Fujinon (cropped)
Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1.52s ISO1000
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting account! I took a picture of Sloy from the other side of the loch last year
bsky.app/profile/lowe...

Richard Percy @lowerresolution.bsky.social · Jun 18

Sloy hydroelectric power station at Inveruglas, Loch Lomond, #Scotland October 2024 #fujifilm #photography #landscape

Black and white telephoto image of Sloy hydroelectric power station at Inveruglas on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland taken from Inversnaid approximately two kilometres across the loch.

Camera : Fujifilm X-T5
Lens : 70-300mm f4-5.6 Fujinon @ 300mm
Aperture/speed/ISO : f5.6 1/450s ISO250
Simulation : Monochrome +R

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