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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 10h

#photography 14 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Looking out from the Forum in Norwich with St Peter Mancroft church looming large.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#photography 13 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. The Forum in Norwich. It houses not only the library, but also BBC Radio Norfolk. AHA!

Spacious multi-level public library interior beneath a large circular glass dome, with curved glass balconies, staircases and study areas on each floor, and a central entrance sign reading "Library".

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#photography 12 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Inside St Peter Mancroft church in Norwich

Painted memorial plaque with heraldic shields, an angel and carved inscriptions mounted on a stone pillar in a historic church nave, with rows of wooden pews and tall arched windows in the background.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#photography 11 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Norwich Cathedral: feeding the five thousand. Probably not with loaves and fishes.

$Looking through a big arched doorway with steps leading up to it. Past the doorway we can see a stair rising at an angle first one way, then the other. People are climbing and descending the stairs. There is a sign saying that is the cathedral's refractory and cafe.$

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#photography 10 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. A view of the cloisters in Norwich Cathedral

A view of cloisters in Norwich cathedral. We're looking through two columns out towards the grassy centre of the rectangular cloisters.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#photography 09 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. A quiet corner of Norwich Cathedral

A quiet corner in Norwich Cathedral. There are some steps leading up to a very tall wooden door and a window on the left letting light through. There are columns and stonework that you would associate with a cathedral.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#photography 08 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Stained glass windows in Norwich Cathedral looking remarkably fresh

A colourful stained glass window in four panels. Each panel has some religious figures and some text indicating who the figures are.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#photography 07 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Another view of Elm Hill in Norwich.

A view of a narrow street with cobbled stones and antiquated buildings on either side. Through the gap between the last two buildings a church is glimpsed. The buildings are very colourful in pastel shades and there are some yellow lamps attached to the first floor. There are lots of wooden beams to be seen.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#photography 06 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Elm Hill is a wonderful medieval street in Norwich. It's like looking back in time. It was mercifully free of cars.

Elm Hill in Norwich. We can see down a narrow lane with colourful mediaeval buildings on either side. In most of the buildings the first floor overhangs the ground floor, a technique used to give extra space. Apparently this is called jettying.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#photography 05 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. The top of Elm Hill in Norwich.

A dark green shop front with sign writing above the windows: "Antiques, collectables and vintage clothing bought & sold". The windows display lots of the items promised by the sign

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#photography 04 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Beccles Town Hall.

Beccles town hall. A large brick building fills the frame. The ground and first floor are visible. There are large hanging baskets of pink flowers hanging between the first two floors. On the ground there is a large dark doorway, noticeboards either side, and an attractive milestone.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#photography 03 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. Steps leading to St Michael the Archangel Church Beccles.

Worn stone steps ascending between weathered brick retaining walls with a central black handrail, patches of lichen and moss, and climbing greenery spilling down the sides.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#photography 02 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. St Michael the Archangel Church Beccles.

A view of St Michael the Archangel Church in Beccles. The door to the church occupies most of the right side of the frame, and on the left is a path leading through the churchyard, with houses and fields visible under a bright cloudy sky.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#photography 01 Hill walking in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. A leafy lane near Bungay.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#photography I found this shot from 2007. A church in Brittany. I'd very much like to return but cannot remember the exact location...

A church interior in Brittany. There are three windows facing the camera, lighting the dark interior. To the right of the frame is an altar, and above the altar is a very large painting of a religious scene.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I asked her if she could put up a tent in the back garden, get some men to have a bit of a scrap in it, and then get one of the men to make a horrible and disturbing remark about Michelle Obama.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#photography #ClassicMono Supplicants. Abbey Baptist Church, Reading, this afternoon.

Four 1.5 metre tall ventilation shafts sit in the lower right corner of the frame, looking like worshippers on their knees. On the white urban church wall behind to the upper left of the shot is a huge dark wooden cross.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#processing #generativeart #creativecoding Bit shifting patterns. I've got a bit addicted to these over the last few days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise...

A grid of coloured cells making a mathematical pattern.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#photography The southern end of Brotherswater, taken last week.

The southern end of Botherswater, a small lake in Cumbria, UK.

Three bedraggled sit on the edge of the water, filling the frame. Behind the trees are green fields, and further back hills rise on the left, right and in the centre. There are stone walls in the fields and on the hills. The sky is mainly cloudy with patches of blue. The scene is mostly sunlit, but the hills have darker patches of shade.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The former Sun Life building, now known as Matrix House, photographed today in Basingstoke. Shot from the vantage point of the local multi story car park, just after a bit of shopping, and before a shower. Oh, the glamour... #photography

An office block whose windows fill the frame, making a grid of rectangles. The reflected scene of a multi story car park and the sky above is distorted in the curves of each window.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#photography Out and about in some misty countryside this afternoon.

A lane winds from the foreground of this photograph into the distance. There are hedges on both side of the lane. It's a misty afternoon and the colours are muted greens and browns.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#photography If you want to get a hat, get a head. I think I got that right.

A black and white photo of a shop front in York. There is a big "THE HAT SHOP" over the width of the shop. Five people are walking past, all hatless. The man on the right of the photo is pushing a bicycle.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I liked the shadow cast by this parked bicycle. Taken yesterday in Winchester. It was bitterly cold, I didn't take my gloves off for long. #photography

A photograph of a parked bicycle. It is upright on a stand, with lots of space around it. There is an elongated shadow thrown by a low sun onto paving stretching to the bottom of the image . There is a restaurant to the left in which the bicycle's reflection can just be seen.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Did you ever play Beggar-thy-neighbour (aka strip Jack naked or beat you neighbours out of doors)? I often wondered if a game could last forever, and recently discovered the answer. If you are at all curious I made a blog post: www.foshy.co.uk/home/strip-j...

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Strip Jack Naked | foshy.co.uk

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A seasonal verse and a triptych: Apples be ripe, Nuts be brown, Petticoats up, Trousers down.

A photo triptych of hawthorn berries, fallen apples and a mushroom, possibly a honey fungus

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Daniel Aguilar @prtzart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Obliqua 86, minted by @xavierhb #genart

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Marnix Keller @marnixkeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Turn your sound on, the atmosphere changes everything. This year marks 100 years since the BBC first broadcast the Shipping Forecast. I’m creating an art collection inspired by it. Geeky! Here’s a glimpse of the journey so far. If you know someone who would like it, please share it with them.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Ah, autumn. Winter is approaching, but there are lots of compensations. Photos are from a very pleasant walk yesterday in the Hampshire countryside. The church at Weston Patrick was decorated inside for the harvest festival and looked amazing.

A woodland scene. Tall trees and an orange path the colour of fallen leaves

A harvest festival display on a church window sill. There is a bouquet of flowers, and fruit and vegetables.

Inside a church, looking along wooden pews to a window. On the window sill is a large bunch of flowers, and some berries and fruits

A close up photo of a parasol mushroom on a woodland floor

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

‪ ‪Here's a bit of shameless self promotion - I wrote a thing to see if you can tell the difference between a Daily Mail or a Guardian headline: www.foshy.co.uk/javascript/h... Any feedback is very welcome.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Holme Fell in Cumbria on a welcome dry day last Monday. #photography

A landscape view of the Lake District. There is a small rocky cliff and a tree on the left of the frame. In the middle distance are trees and meadows. Farther off there are higher hills. The blue sky is full of puffy white clouds.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I captured these photos whilst walking into and around my local town.

A photo of a dark pedestrian underpass. There are two bright green leafy tendrils of a climbing plant hanging down in the foreground. In the background there is a small bright rectangular shaped view of the path leading away from the underpass.

$A close up photo of cracks in the tarmac of a path. The cracks look remarkably like the Mandelbrot set fractal.$ A photo of a dark passageway leading to a bus station. The roof of the passageway is completely dark and illuminated by two neon lights, which look like blue and green ropes leading away from the viewer's eye.

A photo of a dark passageway leading to a bus station. The roof of the passageway is completely dark and illuminated by two neon lights, which look like blue and green ropes leading away from the viewer's eye.

A black and white photo of some steelwork in the roof of a shopping centre.

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 01/07/2025

This week's #WCCChallenge theme is waves! Here's an ocean made with p5.strands: openprocessing.org/sketch/2685829

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed this podcast. Forty five minutes of relaxing fun. Perfect! The interviewee sounds just like Toby Jones, which is a bonus. shows.acast.com/strangers-on... #podcast

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EPISODE 41: A Common Humanity | Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal talks to strangers on park benches, often leading to surprising revelations.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The sign on this old gate is a bit optimistic I think. #photography

A photo of a broken wooden gateway leading into a grassy field. There is a sign on the gate reading "PLEASE SHUT THE GATE", which clearly hasn't been done for a long time.

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Idflood @idflood.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The first tree Fully generated in code. Using #threejs to "paint" a tree with 2 millions points. #genart #creativecoding

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I stood in the middle of this room and pointed my camera upwards. Then I cloned myself out of the image. From Olafur Eliasson's exhibition at the Tate Modern. #photography

A photo taken in the Tate Modern Gallery in London. There is a white walled square room with a light coloured wooden floor. There are openings for people to walk through on the left and right. Approximately 35 people stand mainly on the edges. The ceiling is mirrored and we are looking down from directly above, although the photo was taken looking upwards at the ceiling. I cloned myself out of the centre of the photo.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Looking to the Upper Calder Valley. The rock is marked on the OS map as (wait for it) ... Great Rock. #photography

A photo. A path passes a large rock which is about as tall as a house. The foreground is grassy with dandelions in bloom. There are drystone walls on both side of the path before the rock. The Upper Calder Valley fills the distant background: a patchwork of trees and fields.

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Cartoons by Chris @cartoonsbychris.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Before ChapGPT there woz Potteries dialect n chowk bowd.

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Richard Mansel @richardmansel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

An evening view of the Rochdale canal in Hebden Bridge. #photography

A photo of the Rochdale canal in Hebden Bridge. The canal is on the right of the frame, and two paths meet on the left. Black railings seperate the paths. There is a bridge and some old industrial buildings in the background

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