📷 Ian Charters
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📷 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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Manchester Commute
Alphabet Challenge
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekWforWindows #streetphotography #classicmono #manchester
Commuters on a tram - some standing in the background while two sitting in the foreground, back-to-back, both resting their chins in their hands. Seems to epitomise the boredom of commuting.
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Alphabet Challenge
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekVforVowels #classicmono #streetphotography
Eccles
Man walking past a furniture store which is closing down, as the signs in the windows proclaim. He checks his watch, as if to confirm he isn’t too late. Sadly “closing down” is seen all too often in northern towns like Eccles.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Friday Cityscape
#scape #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #cityscape #colourphotography
Market Street in a northern town with a bus stop, shelter, and litter bin in the foreground and a lone figure walking towards the sunlit pub with the church tower beyond.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Friday Cityscape
#scape #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #cityscape #bnwphotography #classicmono
Market Street in a northern town. Man with shopping bag walking away from the camera, just beyond a “road works” sign. Shops on both sides of the street run off into the distance where the church tower can be seen.
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Happy Days
#manchester
#EastCoastKin #Photography #Art
#HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze
#PhotographersofBluesky
#streetphotography
Young couple walking towards the camera; he is pushing a pram, she carrying her phone. Both are looking at something interesting and exciting.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This Morning's Shadow
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography
Gatepost with a knotted cord looped around the top. The cord's shadow on the post could be a fairy flying away.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Aye, Eye
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #photography
A Highland Bull turns to look at the camera
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Manchester City Centre
#manchester
#scape #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #cityscape #bnwphotography #classicmono
Looking towards Albert Square and the Xmas Big Wheel. People in the foreground, stone office buildings on both sides of the road. A Manchester tram moving into St Peter’s Square with the Midland Hotel on the right, new towers in the distance and a war memorial on the left. Jet trails criss-cross in the sky above. Lone pedestrian walks across the tram tracks with St Peter’s Square behind and the Midland Hotel beyond with new towers in the distance.
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Northern Folk
#manchester
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Two people walking and laughing in the sunshine. Shops and other people in the background. Woman dressed for running walks in front of an advert showing two runners. Woman stands reading her phone and has a tiny dog cradled in her other arm. Woman dashes in front of the camera with shops and office in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Alphabet Challenge
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekUforUnloved
Decaying wooden hull of an abandoned boat resting on mud at low tide.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Northern Folk
At The Station, Manchester Deansgate
#manchester #railwaystation
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Man standing on railway station platform looking longingly for his train. Tall buildings in Manchester City centre for the background to which the platform and tracks run towards. Man watching his train arrive. Tall buildings in Manchester City centre form the background.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Northern Folk
Leeds-Liverpool Canal near Wigan
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Two people walking hand-in-hand along the canal tow-path at the top of Wigan Flight on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. Tow-path is covered in fallen leaves, weeds grow across the canal and one boat sits in the basin. Trees above and beyond the two people create a frame and cast shadows from the winter sunshine.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Northern Folk
#bolton
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Man walking in sunshine carrying his shopping bag and taking a long pull on his cigarette. Shops and cars form the background. A couple walking and in deep conversation on a sunny day. Victoria Square and some office blocks form the background. A woman standing in sunshine and looking across the road. A row of posts on the pavement run into the distance while vehicles and and an office block forms the background.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Rainy Day in Wigan
#wigan
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Man walking under his umbrella. Wet shiny pavements, small puddles and reflections with shops and offices beyond. Woman walking and talking on her phone under her umbrella on a rainy day. Wet shiny pavements, small puddles and reflections, shops in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Winter Hill TV Mast
The highest TV transmitting antenna in the UK (778.1 metres, 2,553 feet)
#alphabetchallenge #photography #eastcoastkin #weekTforTelevision
Winter Hill TV mast on the horizon with a figure on the road beside it and other masts around it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Northern Folk
#harrogate
#ClassicMono #photography #timeandplace #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #humansofbluesky
Two people walking towards the camera with their dog. She uses a stick while he wears a tweed suit and leather hat and has the dog on a lead. Young couple walking together: he holds a shopping bag and two cups of coffee, she pushes a pram, they are looking into the prom with big smiles. Remembrance Day, people standing looking around just before the two minute silence. Two veterans wear their berets with badges.
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Autumn in Harrogate
#harrogate #photography #autumn
Path through the woods, golden fallen leaves, people walking towards the camera with the sun behind them. Stream with fallen leaves Bracket with fallen leaves and raindrops
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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.
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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.
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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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.
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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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.
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM