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Giles Turnbull
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Nice work Essex 👏
An amazing orange cloud looming over the tiny landscape
August 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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A mocked up sticker (made using mission-patch.com). The text around the edge says: "Step away from the device / Have biscuit in the garden". In the middle there's a cartoon cookie on a blue background.
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I’m often asked for examples of good ‘working in the open’ - so I’ve made a list of some of my favourites, and I’ll do my best to keep it updated as I hear about new ones. It’s called “Doing open”

gilest.org/doingopen/
A screenshot of the "Doing open" web page, it's a lilac background with black text
July 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I found my spirit cushion in Dunelm
A cushion in beige with large gold lettering that says OH BLIMEY
July 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Potato update
Potatoes in a bowl.
July 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Went to Iceland. Iceland’s great.
Fresh lava stretched across a road The jet of a waterfall silhouetted against a white cloudy sky Ponies grazing with mountains in the background Geometric shapes at the Reykjavik cathedral
July 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Abstract b/w shot of a glass door in bright light - a grid of squares vanishing from view to the right, but slowly changing from blurred to focused as they do
July 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Abstract b/w photo - four blurred curving lines meet in the centre of the image. Like arms of a spiral galaxy. Actually it's the base of an air fryer pan.
June 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The best thing about this is that if I saw any of these on an OS map, I wouldn’t even blink

places.projects.alextorrance.co.uk
Fake placename: On-the-Bank-in-the-Blagthorpe Fake placename: Edmondsgreen Next Sawgate Fake placename: Selburn-le-Beddingside Fake placename: Twatsidney
June 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Excellent 👏
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A screenshot of Alex’s Place name generator, displaying the name “Heckingstow”
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Went out for a walk, found some lines
b/w photo of vertical white lines on a black background, far apart on the left and getting closer and closer together towards the right. It's actually a metal fence gleaming in the evening sunlight, and photographed at a slight angle b/w photo of the shadow cast by metal railings on the ground b/w photo of a metal fence, outlined against a dark sky. a very contrasty and grainy photo, this one, with strong verticals pointing towards the top-centre
June 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Went for an evening stroll the other day, made a new friend
A badger crossing a quiet country lane in broad daylight. Fuzzy blurry photo - best I could do in the circumstances
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Potato update
Potato plants. With flowers!
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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What a gorgeous day. The river's low, and loads of tiny damselflies (I think they're damselflies) are skittering over the ripples
A view along a river as it runs through a Cotswold town. Golden stone buildings on the left, greenery on the right. The river is mostly green, with reflections of its surroundings. Tiny ripples in river; river plants are visible, slightly distorted, just beneath the surface of the water.
June 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The printing museum in Antwerp is very very good
Bw shot of a white arrow projected on a wooden floor in a gloomy room. Where the arrow points, a pair of feet are just disappearing through an open door Bw shot through a document viewer machine: blurry circles of the eye pieces surround a small map in the centre. Quite pleased with this picture
June 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Walking around Prague was fun
B/w photo of a huge circular window in a stone wall. Inside is a cafe. B/w photo of the spiky bits on the top of the cathedral in the centre of Prague. It looks very gothic. Very contrasty.
May 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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We spent a few days in Prague, exploring and mooching about and eating quite a lot of cake. Doing all the usual sightseeing things.
View from our hotel window - all jumbled rooftops climbing up the hillside A b/w photo of the Velvet Revolution memorial - the date 17.11.1989, with many hands extending from the top of it. Quite moving. I was just 18 years old back then.
May 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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I'm back from a week in Prague and Antwerp, punctuated by long overnight train journeys. I'll post some of my fave pics from the trip over the next few days.
Black and white photo, taken with the camera poking out through the train window, looking forwards towards the locomotive. We see an empty parallel rail track, wires hung up on poles, and beyond those a dense forest. In the foreground, the frame of the window we're looking out through. The mood is moody, the sky is cloudy, but despite that the contrast quite good, so I'm quite pleased with this photo. Black and white photo, taken through the window of a train compartment, looking out to another train parked on the next track. Inside the compartment we can see a small shelf with bottles of water; and a paper bag hanging on a hook, bulging with picnic food for the journey.
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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… and arriving at the destination: Prague.
Prague main station. Platforms, a blue train, nothing spectacular about this view but after all night on trains, we’re here
May 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Next! Departing Brussels…
A cloudy sky with buildings of Brussels hiding beneath. Adventure awaits…
May 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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And now: a short wait in Brussels
Looking skyward, grey clouds above a glass walled office building. Brussels Midi station!
May 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Boarding a Eurostar at St Pancras
View up the escalator as we ascend to platform level. We can see a mix of the old station roof, all Victorian finery, and the modern steel-and-concrete.
May 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Paddington!
Grey skies over the Circle Line platforms at Paddington. Angular building edges. A big green train opposite. All looking very urban.
May 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Off on an adventure. First: local train to Bath
Interior view of a local train, looking out through the closed doors. Everything’s grey and dull inside the train. Vibrant greenery whizzing past outside.
May 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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It’s Green Man Festival day in Bradford on Avon, so loads of morris dancers and green people wandering about
A side of brightly dressed morris dancers bashing sticks together in the sunshine. An impressive Green Man made of actual greenery, standing incongruously outside a recruitment agency office
May 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM