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Rick Harrison
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He/Him. Head of Digital/WebDev at Employer Brand specialists @welovechatter.com
😍 #Corgis, #Photography, #Yorkshire, 🇺🇦
Straight Outta #Crofton.
🏡 #Todmorden; 💼 #Leeds #UK
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The hamlet of Oldroyd on the opposite side of the valley from my house always looks super pretty at this time of year as all the Hawthorn trees flower 😍
#Todmorden #Calderdale #Yorkshire #UnitedKingdom #UK #Landscape
A view of the side of a valley, lush green grass at the bottom and rough Pennine moorland at the top, in the middle are old stone farm buildings, surrounded by lots of white-flowering Hawthorne trees. Taken near sunset with golden light and long shadows highlighting the bumpy contours of the land.
May 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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A few photos I took from a day out at @yspsculpture.bsky.social yesterday (it's a world class art gallery set within a country park in Yorkshire, UK).

I'm still thinking about the tasty chocolate and banana tray-bake from the cafe there - so good 🤤

#Art #Sculpture #Photography
The sculpture 'Into Being' by the sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon - a very large 'flowing' sculpture (like draped fabric with ripples in it) by weaving and bending wicker tree twigs (like a wicker basket, but a more free-form shape and a lot bigger with 'waves' of texture to it). There's a person stood next to it for scale (it's taller than her, a bit over 2 metres tall, about 8-10 meters wide, about 6 meters deep (it mostly fills the room) and there's a path through the middle of it to allow you to be within the sculpture The sculpture 'six women' by Bharti Kher, there are casts of 6 seated and naked women made out of plaster of Paris, each sat on wooden stools, set in a white cavernous gallery space. On the far wall stands a man looking at a very large circular artwork on the wall made out of thousands of small golden discs in a tightly packed spiral. The sculpture 'Djinn' by artist Bharti Kher, a 5 meter tall metal sculpture, reminiscent of a (stylised) figure sat holding a giant bunch of bananas covering their face and fanning out over their head). The statue is situated outside, with an old building behind it, sat on grass, and a blue sky overhead. 'Love' sculpture by artist Robert Indiana, sat on a grassy bank with a countryside view rolling away behind it. The sculpture is typography of the word 'love' in red and extruded as 3d. It's split into 2 rows - 'LO' on top of 'VE'., and the 'O' is at a 45 degree angle.
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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To say I love 5 mins down the road from it, I really should go for a walk around Hardcastle Crags more often - lovely walk this morning.

#HebdenBridge #HardcastleCrags #Mill #IndustrialRevolution #MillPond #Yorkshire #UK
An old stone mill building with a chimney and rows of windows, reflected in the waters of a mill-pond before it, and a tree-lined valley in the background
March 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Stumbled upon a bit of unexpected nostalgia at the local garden centre ...

#twitter #oldskool
A gray wooden bird box with a white wooden roof, and on the front below the entrance-hole is a carved white recreation of the twitter logo. It's sat on a garden centre shelf priced at £12.99, and described as a 'Peace Next Box'
March 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Dawn views looking over to stoodley pike monument

#dawn #todmorden #calderdale #stoodleypike #yorkshire #unitedkingdom #photography #landscapephotography
Pink dawn light barely lights the landscape looking across a misty valley. On the horizon is stoodley pike monument: a big stone spire A pink dawn sky with the hillside and stoodley pike monument in silhouette. The top half of the frame has silhouettes of 9 birds flying through the frame, but with a composition to act as a visual balance to the hillside and monument
March 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I'm just saying - McCartney obviously hadn't seen a real pond full of frogs, as that's more of a loud never-ending drone than a chorus?

#Frogs #Ponds #FrogsInPonds
#Nature #UK
March 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Stunning views out early this morning for sunrise, with a hard frost and fog in the valley-bottom 😍

📍 #Todmorden, #Calderdale, #Yorkshire, #UK
A view looking across a fog-filled valley at dawn - the sun hasn't yet risen, but the sky is starting to glow golden. In the foreground, a gravel track archs into the distance, surrounded by frosty heather moorland. In the far distance rising above the fog is the other side of the valley, and the Stoodley Pike monument in silhouette. A frosty landscape view looking across a moorland hillside towards trees and old houses. The mid-left of the view is filled with valley fog, and the sun is just catching the moorland hills rising above the fog on the horizon. Alpine trees back-lit by the rising sun. The middle-ground is frost-covered grass lit by the low sun, and the foreground is frosted rocks and moorland. A view across a rural valley scene with fog filling the bottom of the valley and parcels of land (woods and fields) rising out of the fog. In the far distance the valley hills rise high above the fog, and on top is a windmill farm.
February 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Nice lunchtime walk along the canal from #Todmorden to #HebdenBridge (and back again) today 😍

#Yorkshire #UK
A canal leads off into the distance with the strep sides of the valley to both sides. There's a collection of canal boats on the water, and in the middle distance a tall old stone brick mill chimney hinting back to the days of the industrial revolution.
February 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Baby it's cold outside.... And inside - given the boiler has decided now is a suitable time to break down 🥶
A pretty looking wintery landscape looking across a valley, with lots of snow and bare trees.
January 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Taking in the view over to #StoodleyPike earlier while heading off for a big-shop, given we're probably not easily getting off this hillside for a week 😅

#Uk #Todmorden #Calderdale #Yorkshire #Landscape #Snow
A snow-covered moorland landscape view, with a track leading from the foreground. Stoodley pike monument sits on top of the moors on the horizon on the opposite side of the valley.
January 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Not great - flood sirens droning in #Todmorden - problem is heavy rain from #StormBert combined with rapidly melting snow from the hills from earlier in the week 😳
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Reminds me years ago chatting to the Queens Raven Keeper at Knaresborough castle and she said they were super intelligent but a bit of a nightmare - trying to land on peoples heads for fun, one liked to lie on it's back and play dead before jumping up to scare visitors 😅
A portrait of The Queens Raven Keeper in chainmail and a cape, holding a large black raven.
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Randomly just looking through some old photos I took (I used to do a lot of photography), so here's some photos I took at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park over the years of some of my fave artworks (I used to live just down the road from it so was a regular visitor).

#Sculpture #Art #Photography
The sculpture "Small Lie" by KAWS - 10m tall disney-inspired sculpture made out of wood, towering over my partner and dog - shot this just before closing time on the last day it was exhibited at dusk using 2 flash guns to light it up (it's now on display at Hamad International Airport). The sculpture "Pelvis" by Not Vital - a giant shiny metal reproduction of a pelvis bone twice the height of a human - taken at sunset with mist in the valley in the background, and a couple hugging in silhouette stood next to the sculpture The sculpture "Along the Way" by KAWS - 2 giant wooden disney-esque characters consoling each other - about 5m tall and made out of black painted wood. Taken in the snow in the lead up to the official opening, a small child is stood at the foot of them to show the huge scale. The statues "Spiegel I&II" (2010?) by Jaume Plensa early one frosty morning - metal human-figure sculptures made out of various international letter shapes - bit enough that you can walk inside them (had to get there early enough for it to be a photo without visitors in it!)
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Given the chance she'd be out rolling in it all day long 😅
A corgi dog rolling in the snow, with snowflake dust on her nose
November 19, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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A decent showing overnight, but sadly now melting quickly 😢 #uksnow OL14 0/10 4cm. (see uksnowmap.com for a neat interpretation of posts like this)
A snow covered valley scene with a track leading away into the distance.
November 19, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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The woofer loves snow, and has decided she's going to lie in it all night long if that's what it takes. #uksnow OL14 2/10 2cm
A very determined looking dog laid in the snow, lit by torch-light A long-exposure night photo of a snow-covered wintery landscape with lots of trees with snow-covered branches
November 18, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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And so it begins #uksnow OL14 1/10 0cm
A night time landscape photo of the Calder valley with occasional street and house lights dotting the dark landscape. Streaks of falling snow lit up by torch light
November 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Enjoying seeing all the #corgi photos appearing on blue sky, here's another of Wendy to add into the mix:
#corgicrew #corgisky
A sandy-coloured corgi-breed dog staring wistfully away from the camera, pictured in UK moor-land surrounded by amber-coloured ferns
November 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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Random discovery of the day -- wonder what prompted the name change? 🤔
Screenshot of the wikipedia entry for Whatley manor, (formerly known as Twatley manor), in Wiltshire, UK.
September 1, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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The beautiful Wizard of Whirlaw sculpture, high above the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, UK.
Can confirm there are indeed cows with calves in the field, for if you need a (little bit) of added danger on your walk 🐮
A large stone carving (about 6ft tall) of a (stylised) stone head, with a long nose and stone beard, and a furrowed brow. Next to it is a wooden walkers stile, and a gate with the sign 'caution: cows with calves). It's a sunny day with a blue sky, and long shadows (as close to sunset). In the background are rolling hillsides leading off up to the horizon many miles away.
August 31, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Went for a walk around Lumbutts on the opposite side of the valley from our house this evening; It rained a little, but when the sun broke through a gap in the clouds at sunset there was a beautiful golden light for a few minutes...
A countryside valley view at sunset with golden light, in the middle distance is a large old Methodist church and a house, in the foreground grazing sheep.
August 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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... and as much to see if anyone has used the hashtag yet, here's where I live, in #Todmorden, which is high up in the #Yorkshire Pennines of the UK. ( The spike on the far side of the valley is #StoodleyPike monument, and the carved head sculpture is the #WizardOfWhirlaw )
A rural scene of a valley, lit by the morning sun, with a few houses and lots of trees and grassy pastures. On the horizon on top of the valley is a pointy obelisk shaped war monument called Soodley Pike. A large 6ft tall stone carving of a stylised head, next to a dry-stone wall, with a rural valley scene in the background A rock formation called 'The Bridestones' at sunset, in silhouette, with the sun positioned behind one of the prominent rocks to create a flaring effect A rural scene of a valley at dawn, with the bottom of the valley filled with mist. The grass in the foreground is frosty. On the horizon on top of the valley is a pointy obelisk shaped war monument called Soodley Pike.
July 29, 2023 at 10:12 AM
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I should probably at least do a first post to say hello - so, hello 👋 - I'm Rick, I like a bit of photography and walking around the UK moorland where we live, and for work I build fancy careers websites for big UK companies. This is Wendy, our #Corgi, watching me do a spot of gardening
A corgi-breed dog sitting on a garden step by a dry stone wall
July 29, 2023 at 9:57 AM