Mark Crean
@markcrean.bsky.social
Life. Laughter. Camera. In Oxfordshire. Cake an important fuel. Or sausages.
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Cherwell II, by Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire, after Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, a copy of which sold for $4.3 million in 2011. Alas, it looks a tad unlikely I’ll find any of that in my Christmas Stocking.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Cherwell II, by Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire, after Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, a copy of which sold for $4.3 million in 2011. Alas, it looks a tad unlikely I’ll find any of that in my Christmas Stocking.
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#EastCoastKin
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#EastCoastKin
A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world.
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#EastCoastKin
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world.
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#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Oxfordshire
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#EastCoastKin
Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, and alas not very mobile these days, staring in the general direction of a proposed new housing development at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire that threatens to spoil his view.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, and alas not very mobile these days, staring in the general direction of a proposed new housing development at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire that threatens to spoil his view.
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A bend in the river. The Cherwell at Lower Heyford, and the first time I’ve seen a decent amount of water in it since early spring.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A bend in the river. The Cherwell at Lower Heyford, and the first time I’ve seen a decent amount of water in it since early spring.
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#Oxfordshire
#Autumn
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#Autumn
After 36 hours of rain, wind and thick grey cloud, it’s great to see some sunshine and colour in Blenheim Park this morning.
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#Autumn
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#Autumn
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
After 36 hours of rain, wind and thick grey cloud, it’s great to see some sunshine and colour in Blenheim Park this morning.
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#Autumn
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#Autumn
4.15pm. The last of sunset and the trees are bare. It must be winter at last. St Michael’s Street, Oxford.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
4.15pm. The last of sunset and the trees are bare. It must be winter at last. St Michael’s Street, Oxford.
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The Cherwell watermeadows at Kidlington in Oxfordshire today, now in flood as they are almost every winter. This is about half a mile from the huge new illegal rubbish dump next to the Cherwell that the government don’t want to do anything about.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Cherwell watermeadows at Kidlington in Oxfordshire today, now in flood as they are almost every winter. This is about half a mile from the huge new illegal rubbish dump next to the Cherwell that the government don’t want to do anything about.
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning.
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#Oxfordshire
#Autumn
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#Autumn
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning.
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#Oxfordshire
#Autumn
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Autumn
Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts.
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#Buddhism
#Oxfordshire
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#Buddhism
The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025.
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Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025.
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Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire.
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Winter
#Hades
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Winter
#Hades
The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been.
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Wonderful evening, wonderful photographer. And there are lots of Photo Oxford events now on around town. For more, see photooxford.org
So lucky to have been in conversation with the amazing and pioneering photographer Joel Meyerowitz, for the 2025 Richard Benson Lecture in the Reproduced Image @bodleian.ox.ac.uk part of our contribution to PhotoOxford!
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wonderful evening, wonderful photographer. And there are lots of Photo Oxford events now on around town. For more, see photooxford.org
Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left.
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#Oxfordshire
#Photography
#Oxfordshire
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.
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#Oxford
photooxford.org
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photooxford.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.
#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford
photooxford.org
#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford
photooxford.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
October 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.
One in the eye for the horrid gammons. Further on, Britain could not have managed in WWII without massive help from the Commonwealth, eg 2.5 million men in the British Indian Army alone.
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
One in the eye for the horrid gammons. Further on, Britain could not have managed in WWII without massive help from the Commonwealth, eg 2.5 million men in the British Indian Army alone.
In Swanage, Dorset. There is none finer. We always head straight here on our first evening in town.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In Swanage, Dorset. There is none finer. We always head straight here on our first evening in town.
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#FishandChips
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
By the chain ferry at Sandbanks. Just a few more miles and we’ll be on the Isle of Purbeck for the first time in six months.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
By the chain ferry at Sandbanks. Just a few more miles and we’ll be on the Isle of Purbeck for the first time in six months.
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#TravelPhotography
#Dorset
#EastCoastKin
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#Dorset