Further to this I will be meeting with the Strategic Head of Homelessness at Westminster Council on 23 December, together with @ourmoh.bsky.social, to discuss this tent encampment and how people in that community will be supported as the council plan for clearance of the site progresses.

Gotham. The Olympus Pen FT camera that I've been futzing with recently is really much better and a lot more fun than I anticipated. This is on Ilford HP5+ pushed one stop. #believeinfilm #Liverpool

I have now had a comprehensive reply from @adamhug.bsky.social for which I am grateful, and he has offered a meeting with me and @ourmoh.bsky.social which is a very welcome development.

Glasgow street, southside. 6x9 pinhole camera. I converted from a folder to this. The pinhole sits risen, with only the one hand drilled one fitted. I think now my 3d printing skills have improved, it is time to bring it out of retirement (a dusty corner of my office) #pinhole #filmphotography

Earlier this year my pal Jim Bennett made a box for me to store and transport 4x5 film holders. It is absolutely lovely. He's written an article about it for Furniture and Cabinetmaking magazine. That's not him on the cover. Jim's website is here: jimbennettfurniture.com/pages/about #photography

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

A November weekend afternoon in Utrecht.

Wow, this is quite something.

Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice

The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette! Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered." Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...

It’s actually rather a fun article. phys.org/news/2025-10...

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum. It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…

I was kind of hoping this might happen. Am I a bad person?

In the cemetery on All Hallows’ Eve.

Just got back from a very wet, very dark, solitary walk over the fell while listening to Patricia Routledge reading Wuthering Heights. The words "Let me in!" have never sounded so scary as when stumbling around in a bog in the dark and rain.

“This is a machine with ingrained biases, which produces convincing-looking answers. To train that machine, stolen data has been used, people have been exploited, & enormous amounts of energy have been required. For me, that’s unacceptable.” —Wim Vanderbauwhede

Let’s hear it for some wonky Widelux. My purty city. Lomo 800. Might need a click, because… pano. #believeinfilm

I made tiny proof prints yesterday! It’s been a while. T-Max 400, expanded development with HC-110. #pinhole negative. Classic #cyanotype #BelieveInFilm

Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe opens tomorrow at the Victoria Gallery & Museum! 🎵 Striking portraits by Ean Flanders celebrate Black musicians from L8. 📍 Free, from 11 Oct, Tues–Sat, 10am–5pm Discover Toxteth's music legacy 👇 https://orlo.uk/NCZ4M #BlackBritishMusic

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.

To mark its anniversary, we approached the Leeds-based theatre company Slung Low, with Harrison’s encouragement, about organising a live reading in Holbeck Cemetery, the place that inspired ‘v.’ On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...

Lyme disease is a *massive* and largely unseen problem, especially in areas where deer or feral goats are prevalent. Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.

Fungi fun this month at Restoring Hardknott Forest and Nature Rich Miterdale. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social

There's a smaller one top of Blundell St (Baltic)

After that giant eye I've been reminded that I have a history with advertising and Liverpool. This is from 2015, when half of Lime Street (in the reflection) was for sale and due for demolition. #Liverpool

Photographed earlier tin the summer, this reminded me very much of the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg in The Great Gatsby, only in this case the giant, staring eye welcomes travellers from the train at Lime Street Station. I think it's a cosmetics ad. #Liverpool #BelieveInFilm

When best intentions are forgot, and time worn care neglects. The weeds always remember. 9/11 memorial. Padua. #BelieveInFilm #Polaroid

The vintage excavators were moving earth around at the Threlkeld Mining Museum last weekend, and the Lake District fells were quite a setting.

'Beautiful moment' as replica of Locomotion No 1 crosses oldest bridge on 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Harrison. What a poet. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Off to walk 40 miles from Leeds to Goole. Back this evening. Buy some books, kids: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

@chrisroutledge.bsky.social just put this up www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Seems sensible advice to me... I wrote up a blog post sharing more images from the London protest using a 35mm film camera to cover the event. paulasmith.co.uk/from-the-pro... #believeinfilm #protest #London #stoptrumpcoalition

Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social Waterstones Newport for including My Year of Reading Welshly on their weekend list of their newest and bestselling hardbacks.

Spent the afternoon in the pouring rain and ankle-deep mud at the Egremont Crab Fair, watching Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling.

unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/09/17/p... your weekend listening sorted...

DOWN with this sort of thing

Thoughts from a stranger's funeral. A 1 min video made on Delta 400 and 72 frames with a Pentax 17. Sound ON. #BelieveInFilm #filmphotofraphy #filmcinematography

I've been out in the rain all day, stumbling around in the mud in overtopped boots. It's been glorious, but I have reached a level of bone dampness that only whisky can put right.

The Florence iron mine, at Egremont, Cumbria. Photographed with Lomo Turquoise film, which generally (but not always) turns red shades blue. This is where the Wrestle exhibition is being held: www.florenceartscentre.com/events/sjbnw... #TheFlorence #Wrestle #Photography #BelieveinFilm

It’s always difficult, I think, to do a post out of the blue where you just come straight out and say “BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS” without any preamble, but sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and do it. Tl;dr: BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS levparikian.com/index.php/pr...

I went to the sea to clear my head this week. It was high tide at Hodbarrow, near Millom. #photography #Cumbria

Last two days to see this. The exhibition closes on Sunday.

More parkrun events to alert...both books now reprinted, signed copies from publisher gritstonecoop.co.uk/product-cate..., happy memories @dulwichparkrun.bsky.social @geofflloyd.bsky.social @stevehaake.bsky.social @olliehart.bsky.social @lottiegross.bsky.social @helenannhartley.bsky.social Pls share

The first event in our 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by @pollyrowena.bsky.social: ‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', on Tue 7 Oct (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. Details & booking link for this free event here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

New Blog Post: photieplace.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...

The Secret Language of Trees (2017).