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As seen in York. This is the cycle/pedestrian access tunnel under York Station/East Coast Main Line to access the National Railway Museum along Leaming Road. I use the photo to illustrate how Sefton Council bans cyclists from a similar pedestrian subway under the A59 in Maghull on Merseyside in my blog posting linked here - tonyrobertson.mycouncillor.org.uk/2020/09/03/maghull-lydi...
There’s something quietly beautiful about companionship—the kind that doesn’t need grand gestures or elaborate plans, just the simple presence of another soul. Whether it's sitting side by side in comfortable silence, sharing a laugh over an inside joke, or swapping stories deep into the night, there’s a warmth in knowing someone is there with you, without expectation or demand.
Companionship can be found in the everyday—watching the world go by together, listening to music or watching a movie with someone, or simply existing in each other’s space. It’s the ease of unspoken understanding, the familiarity of a well-worn bond, and the reassurance that even in quiet moments, connection is alive.
It doesn’t always need words; sometimes, a shared glance, a hand resting beside yours, or just the awareness of someone being near are enough to remind you that you’re not alone. And that is a gift in itself.
she always waits until the page turns. bold, but never rude. today, she didn't notice the lens—too busy pretending not to steal. photographed at home in palma, where even the smallest visitors write their own stories.
When you have had enough shopping and the film doesn't start for a while just sit and relax on a bench or grab a beer or snack from the retail units nearby
Photography © Jeremy Sage
outside mercado barceló, the queue for a concert stretches down the street. when the rain begins to fall, the line softens â dissolving into quiet islands of friends like this one. cardboard, umbrellas, shared playlists and calm anticipation. they've made a home out of waiting.
Two Nottingham NET (Nottingham Express Transit) trams passing each other in Market Square. The nearest one is named after the Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Stuart Broad MBE. Having ridden this tramway network I must say I'm highly impressed with it.
The "Rusty Bolt" roundabout on Ashford's shared space ring road with Meridian house & Tower point behind, taken at dusk
Photography © Jeremy Sage
This here is "Amina", the 'pro-modern' Damsel in Distress. She was a little camera shy, must've been all those years of living in self denial, constantly being reminded that she was born a 'Girl' , and in a patriarchal community she is no better than a 2nd class citizen.
Amina earns 1.5 ~ 6 taka (0.085 USD) each day, working as a 'firewood bearer' who goes to and fro along the banks of the Kaptai Lake over a distance stretching one and a half mile, countless times, everyday. Both her father and mother are day labourers as well. With rising prices, the three of them can barely meet their ends meet. Their broken shed reeks of alien fumes, aboriginal organisms and bacteroides that are considered 'lethal' for the city people.
Yet despite all these difficulties growing up, 'Amina' retains a strange, stark beauty. A farcical gaze that tears through your very soul. A look that screams of hardship, of not giving up, of a muted protest against gender discrimination, of the failures of International Bodies like "UNICEF", of a fake prerogative that calls itself "Nari Odhikar Aine" (Law of Women Rights).
Tsk tsk tsk.
Larger View or view on black recommended.
Accolades:
* 1st place on " SAARC-Hall of Fame: Theme 'Children' " contest.
* Place on National Geography Magazine's "Featured Daily Dozen" section.
* Selected as one of the 6 photographs from Bangladesh eligible to attend the "Photography Club World Cup Contest 2008 in France"
* Winner of the 30th Juror's Choice Award
* Selected as the "Photo of the Day" for 9th Feb,2009 at Photoburst.
* 1st Prize Winner in the "Portrait" category of the prestigious "Vision 09"-Photography Contest in the Hind Leys Gallery , Leicestershire, UK.
taken in front of es baluard museum, palma de mallorca. two strangers on the same bench, separated by space and posture. light, symmetry, and silence frame the scene
in the flux of passeig de gràcia, a metro car streaks by, a red canvas blurring lines between here and there. people anchor the frame, still against the streak of color, immersed in their thoughts, conversations, and devices. some stand in anticipation, others seek comfort in the benches—each a singular story, a private contemplation. the station is a crossroad of journeys, of pauses and departures, where the stillness of waiting contrasts with the swift passage of time. it's an urban tableau, a fleeting intersection of lives in motion, captured in the rhythm of barcelona's heartbeat.
This photo was taken during an 8-hour train ride through Uzbekistan in third class, the most basic option available. Without air conditioning, the heat inside became unbearable, and outside temperatures reached 37°C.
But this moment stood out: a man quietly enduring the journey in his undershirt, another trying to cool off with a towel. No one complained. Everyone just coped in their own way.
Travel isn't always smooth or scenic. Sometimes it's crowded, sweaty, and slow. But it's real—and full of small, honest moments like this.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
This photo was taken during an 8-hour third-class train ride from Tashkent to Bukhara. The air inside had become heavy and stale, as there was no air conditioning and the outside temperature was 37°C.
The man on the right sits quietly, shielding his face—not just from the heat, but from the thick, smelly air hanging in the compartment. You can feel the exhaustion in his posture. Meanwhile, the older man in the foreground is squeezing past in the narrow aisle, one of many small movements in a space that offered little room to breathe.
It was a tough ride. But moments like these say a lot without words. Travel isn't always comfortable, but it's real and human.
I'd like to say I stalked this guy for hours from a blind, but in fact we happened on him and his herd on a soccer pitch right in Canmore. There was a team of kids there patiently waiting for them to move on so they could start their practice. Odd sight for sure.
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - November 4, 2018: Pedestrians walk through a bright red covered walkway linking the Scottish Event Campus to Exhibition Centre Railway Station in the Glasgow's Finnieston urban regeneration neighbourhood.
the sea talks, but not to everyone. one looks ahead, the other across. time bends slightly. in portixol, under the sun’s hard light, silence stretches like a shadow.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Hawaii has hundreds of hotels/resorts catering to thousands of visitors/tourists at the same time. These hotels need to satisfy those customers looking for great locations for cheaper prices. Such places provide instant gratification for millions of people who now have a chance to enjoy various destinations (for example Hawaii in this case) without making a hole in their pockets.
The desire to cater to thousands of tourists at the same time gives rise to the need for such mega structures where repetition is a way of providing answers to that desire. It may look too urban or ugly to some folks who can burn the buck, but this is art too in a different sense.
This is a different hotel with a different kind of pattern. Do you see this as urban art or urban decay? What do you think?
December 31 2009, Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii. This art/urban decay from here.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Sculpture by Jørgen Carlo Larsen
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
Title Music - youtu.be/8RDdmfWsrsw
and another great song by Tegan and Sarah - youtu.be/_bqL8o6SxUo
awww. this rocks too - youtu.be/jtCGODjuRq0
So it's about that time of year to make resolutions and such.. add yours here sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/6zLo1P9YLl
Colorado Model Karen Parker www.modelmayhem.com/1866703
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I think I may have passed out for a month or so.. a flickr comma? If only that were true, i'd be rested and ready for the new year.
Coolness found on Flickr: flic.kr/p/91B46E
and this !!!
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Flick on Flickr's :)
One street off of massive Yasukuni Doori.
Next door is an even smaller alley.
A woonerf is a street made for people. Cars can travel on a woonerf, but the street design lets them know that people are present not just on the sidewalks, but often within the roadway itself. Here, a commercial street in the Jimbocho neighborhood has high pedestrian volumes.
This was taken in the morning, just as bookstores opened. The pachinko parlors are about to open as well, and addicted gamblers mill about the street, chatting, waiting, reading books that they just picked up. The taxi and delivery "van" coming up the street are going slow. With a default speed limit in Tokyo of 30kph (19 mph), drivers are already primed for cautious driving on small streets. Throw in a cluttered street scape and it's the same to them as if there were visible pedestrians. So add in a few pedestrians and they go into hyperactive cautious mode.
Be sure to hover the photo to see notes.
~ Junichiro Tanizaki
This is a new set of pictures of the Hawaiian hotels and resorts around Waikiki beach. These massive hotels have hundreds of rooms and can accommodate thousands of tourists at the same time. A perfect urban setting.
The problem with patterns is half of us like them and the other half dislike them. I have personally observed that people who dislike patterns are more free-thinking, liberal and break-the-rules type.
Do you see this as urban art or urban decay? What do you think?
December 31 2009, Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii. These repetitions from here.
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.