Great thread illustrating how crap AI is

It's going to be one of those days. #stormchandra

“London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious “pea-soupers”. This presented difficulties for early “orthochromatic” photographic emulsions, which were insensitive to orange and red.” theconversation.com/how-romantic...

A lovely eclectic list to be part of. Thank you , @waterstones.bsky.social

Christian Adam of Lübeck, Germany, holds the current world record for cycling backwards with a violin: 60.45 kilometers (37.56 miles) in 5 hours, 9 minutes.

Canning Dock #MerseyMeetUp 📷 Nikon F6 - 24/85mm Zoom 🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

Sydney 2026 New Years Fireworks trichromes Fomapan 400 sheetswith red filter FP4 sheets with green filter Catlabs 80ii sheets with blue filter Ondu Eikan 4x5 + Nikkor 135/5.6 Each sheet 15sec at f5.6 Combined in Ps #BelieveInFilm #Photography #4x5 #Trichrome 1/3

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. "There are two places to hunt grouse: ordinary places, and Adams County."

I've been thinking a lot about the Duddon valley recently, not least because I'm giving a talk about photographing Hardknott Forest at the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus on February 3rd. Details here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

Duddon Valley, Cumbria. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm

I am slightly in awe of this photo taken of my grandparents just as they were about to casually ride a tandem on a 500+ mile round trip from their home in Nottingham to Devon, as if that is something you could just do really easily in 1948 on your week off from the factories where you worked.

“They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.” www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Northern publishing co-op makes its mark The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary By Andrew Bibby

Start off your week with something sweet and humane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-f...

You ain't seen me, right?

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

My favourite image from 2025 using @ilfordphoto.com Ilford HP5 developed with DDX at box speed. Taken at the beginning of Spring using my Pentax 17 it is part of a piece of work capturing light in the landscape. #fridayfavourites #2025fave #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Photographs of the Arctic in the 1880s by self-styled glaciologist, Frenchman Charles Rabot: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic

I happened to be passing so I dropped in at the Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick this morning and there was *nobody else there* for a few minutes. This very rare phenomenon only occurs when the sun and the moon are in a very specific position relative to each other. #LakeDistrict

Working on the final report for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social on the Outsiders exhibition and the numbers look good. We estimated 20,000 visitors and ended up with 120,000. The exhibition was shown for around 520 days and averaged 230 visitors per day across the tour. The grant was key to this.

Events updates! First up - a @bars.bsky.social digital panel on Jan 14th, 5pm - with Anneke Lubkowkitz, Annie Rutherford, Abi Palmer and me talking about Romantic era writers, disability, walking, landscape and queerness. pollyatkin.com/events/

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will take place on Tue 3 Feb. It will be a free talk by @chrisroutledge.bsky.social on 'Restoring Hardknott Forest: Photographing "Wildwood" in the Duddon Valley'. See here for further details & to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

We are beset by little birds. This posse was right outside the front door, monitoring our activities.

Capturing silence and synchronising with the environment - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thing is, I know some people will get angry that I've reposted this, but from it I will probably gain 40ish followers & one of them might buy one of my books then read it in 2034 & tell their friends about it, leading to the knock-on effect that my books earn me a full-time living prior to my death.

Daughter just found this picture from a holiday in Wales ten years ago. She is wearing a helmet, because safety first.

We seem to be at the "driving past No Entry Except for Access signs looking for parking and then turning round and driving back because there is no parking" stage of the Christmas holidays. Will update when we reach the "parking in the field despite the Do Not Park in the Field" signs stage.

Today is my birthday so we’ve been a bit busy doing fun things. But I did manage to do a bit of drawing too - which I’d been missing doing after a week at work. Today’s piece is of the Blackburne Arms on Catherine Street in #liverpool Georgian Quarter. An old favourite pub of ours. #art

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