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Graham

@graham1906.bsky.social

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I like to pair photographs I’ve taken with music I enjoy.

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Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 21h

Dovecote. youtu.be/dH7A86jWG0o?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Harvest Moon. youtu.be/n2MtEsrcTTs?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Summer’s End. youtu.be/Cflw6u7nAN8?...

For me, summer’s end came yesterday when I watched my last day of English domestic cricket for the 2026 season. I was at Edgbaston, Birmingham, to see Warwickshire clinch the County Championship for the ninth time by beating Leicestershire. Although the cricket season is now over I’ll still be a regular visitor to Edgbaston throughout the winter to take part in weekly batting sessions in the nets at the Indoor Cricket Centre.

The Warwickshire squad pose for photographs on the outfield after being presented with the County Championship trophy whilst fans show their appreciation from the stands.

The Warwickshire players celebrating their Championship success with fans.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elevation. youtu.be/ObxhzY7_vtQ?...

The Octagon building in Birmingham, UK.
Completed in 2025, the Octagon is currently the tallest building in the city at 155m (509ft) with 49 floors.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fragile. youtu.be/1oTlvxhhAi4?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Filaments. youtu.be/T1MmTTNtlxI?...

A macro shot of the fine filaments of a grass like plant at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Liberty Tree. youtu.be/DmFuVCfBdAI?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September. youtu.be/r9zSpRY7rDI?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cannonball. youtu.be/M19y_ChWO8E?...

A cannon firing demonstration by Buckingham’s Retinue, a historical re-enactment group specialising in the late medieval period (1450 - 1500). The event took place at Bromwich Hall (aka The Manor House) in West Bromwich, UK. Bromwich Hall is a medieval timber framed house built around 1270.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last Time I Saw Her. youtu.be/nrb8FufZ6cA?...

Sometimes an image strikes a particular chord with me and I end up reworking it in a variety of ways using different media. One such image is of a person standing on a bridge wearing a red hooded jacket photographed on a rainy autumn day in the English Lake District. I’ve previously done a couple of paintings as well as various digital versions but my most recent efforts have involved linocut printing.

My most recent versions of this image are linocut prints focusing on the figure in the red jacket. Rather than printing with two different colours I found it better to cut out the coat printed on red tissue paper and stick it onto the black ink only print.

Rather than trying to carve the background into the linocut printing block I decided to draw it in by hand using a black ink fineliner pen. I’ve produced several versions, each one different in some subtle way.

This version was completely hand drawn using a black ink fineliner pen with the red colour again provided by red tissue paper carefully cut out and stuck onto the partly drawn image. I made no attempt to recreate the original photograph and instead enjoyed making up a fantasy landscape. No doubt I’ll return to this motif again in the future and rework it in some other way.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Silver Snail. youtu.be/X6QuKGjyYFk?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey Joe. youtu.be/FqS9jWkDdtM?...

The statue of Joseph Chamberlain (1836 - 1914) sitting on the steps leading to Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, UK.
Chamberlain served as mayor and later as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham. Although never Prime Minister, he was one of the most influential politicians of the time. One of his sons, Neville Chamberlain, did however become Prime Minister between 1937 and 1940.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oxygen. youtu.be/yEm5LWAwUtE?...

The statue of Joseph Priestley. (1733 - 1804) in Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, UK. Priestley is widely recognised for independently discovering oxygen. He isolated the gas on August 1, 1774, by focusing sunlight on mercuric oxide with a large magnifying glass. He called the gas "dephlogisticated air" and was the first to publish his results in late 1774. Priestley had a long association with Birmingham and lived in the city between 1780 and 1791. He was a member of Birmingham’s famous Lunar Society, a group of scientists, industrialists, philosophers and other intellectuals who met informally to discuss the issues of the day. Priestley is arguably one of the most important characters in the history of science.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Red House (2). youtu.be/VBTRtL-OcPQ?...

Detail from the recently completed 3 Chamberlain Square building in the Paradise development, Birmingham, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Red House (1). youtu.be/P3VyuJoUtkI?...

The red cladding on the Millennium Point building that houses Thinktank Science Museum, Birmingham, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One Drop. youtu.be/KOsLeFw6YkM?...

A fantastic watercolour painting of a water droplet by my good friend Katie.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nature Is The Law. youtu.be/zq_c4atDbRU?...

Lake Louise, Canada.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Most Of The Time. youtu.be/oq7EM8jjNUs?...

Looking out over Paris through the much photographed clock in the Musée d'Orsay.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Top Of The City. youtu.be/Rr7Wr7Ztw0k?...

One of the Petronas Twin Towers photographed from the top of the other.
The 88-story building stands 451.9 m (1483 ft) above the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Big Sky. youtu.be/sV7w5TaYjRA?...

The Queensferry Crossing and Forth Road Bridge spanning the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Among Angels. youtu.be/7TNFysecmq0?...

Basilica of the Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Somewhere In Between. youtu.be/xxKg5zXNjsI?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And So Is Love. youtu.be/qxrwE6Hc9UA?...

The first painting I ever did that was larger than an A4 sheet of paper. Enamel paints on an old piece of white hardboard I found in the garage, 80 x 45 cm, 2012.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Sensual World. youtu.be/h1DDndY0FLI?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Moments Of Pleasure. youtu.be/pW5hjWVS3ho?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I Can’t Wait. youtu.be/hU-gnl8WLP0?...

Street art on a wall alongside the canal at Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Natural Thing. youtu.be/c0BoFrXlZjE?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My Propeller. youtu.be/Z5vZovv8cPk?...

A Spitfire aeroplane on display at Thinktank Science Museum, Birmingham, UK. The plane was manufactured in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham during WW2.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wooden Ships. youtu.be/Fr_7SBGDqBo?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No Ordinary Love. youtu.be/_WcWHZc8s2I?...

The famous Holte End at Villa Park, Birmingham, UK, ahead of tonight’s opening home game of the new Premier League season against reigning champions Arsenal. UTV

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heartbreaker. youtu.be/cTLFNn2E1TE?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Stairway To Heaven. youtu.be/Ly6ZhQVnVow?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Immigrant Song. youtu.be/RlNhD0oS5pk?...

My latest painting, finished just yesterday. It was inspired by a Charles Rennie Mackintosh design, Opera of the Sea, that somehow turned into a bit of a Viking longboat thing! Household gloss and emulsion paint plus acrylics on a left over bathroom wall tile (30 x 60 cm). Anything about Vikings always reminds me of Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, which I often played loudly whilst working on this piece.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hung Up. youtu.be/VGNnQ12ItuE?...

My photograph of Likeness Guaranteed, a sculpture by David Mach at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK.
The sculpture, made using 1,850 metal coathangers, is a portrait of the TV presenter and ex-rock singer, Richard Jobson.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Full Circle. youtu.be/azV0Y7v6wsg?...

Two copies of my photograph of the beautiful window at La Piscine - Musée d’art et d’indistrie, Lille, France, combined to make a full circle.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Abstract. youtu.be/p9xegjRafHE?...

My original photograph of a landing stage (with one board missing) on a waterway in Oslo, Norway, was already pretty abstract due to the colourful reflections on the water from the buildings opposite but it becomes even more so when another copy of it is flipped over and layered on top.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Outside. youtu.be/MwONYYlnBiM?...

A photograph I took of an Aeonium, a subtropical succulent plant, with another copy flipped and layered on top to create what I think is a more interesting image.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Round And Round. youtu.be/MNzF_r3IO1I?...

An image made from a photograph of five year old Zachary inside a ‘hamster wheel’ electricity generator at the ThinkTank Science Museum, Birmingham, UK.
Four copies of the original photograph were stacked on top of each other after having been either rotated or flipped.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Praying For Time. youtu.be/7EXes508wtg?...

An image made from a photograph I took of the Prague Astronomical Clock in Prague’s Old Town Square. Installed in 1410, it is the oldest operating astronomical clock in the world and features an hourly mechanical show. The image is a double exposure, with one of the photos having been ‘flipped’.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For A Dancer. youtu.be/XnT_PbnpijE?...

A Dancing Lady orchid photographed at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Everything Must Go. youtu.be/uU5trjpFus0?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reminds Me Of You. youtu.be/4_JaGKQksXo?...

The Iron Bridge at Ironbridge, Shropshire, UK. The first iron bridge in the world, erected across the River Severn in 1779.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ready, Steady, Go! youtu.be/OoXCO3y3SEI?...

The start of the men’s 3000m steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships 2026, Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, UK.

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sunflower (2). youtu.be/Lk0sZwXTwnc?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sunflower (1). youtu.be/BeiB9x5XT_0?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Evergreen. youtu.be/udLeOOy6em4?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

August. youtu.be/nn_0zPAfyo8?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Red. youtu.be/o1NCmDYeymo?...

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lost Boys. youtu.be/4KXnboPN1p4?...

Getting lost (as usual) in the parched but still beautiful Shropshire, UK, countryside with my friends Andy and Keith.
“Lost boys never grow up, never get old”

Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In The City. youtu.be/ycnWuHsly0A?...

Birmingham, UK.