Happy New Year

2019 in 12 photographs

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Another year is drawing to a close, and there’s just enough time to glance back at 2019.

The year until October was dominated by travel, experiencing new places and creating new memories. The latter segment of 2019 has been about reconnecting with my neighbourhood and city of Manchester.

These photographs – just one for each month – distill the essence of each location and take me right back to that place, whether it’s on top of a Namibian sand dune, experiencing a magic Icelandic snowfall in May, or right here in Manchester.

It’s time to herald 2020 and wish you all a very healthy and Happy New Year.

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In fine focus

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Stony grain

The camera hones in on just a small strip of pebble dashed stonework, with bokeh at the front and to the rear, which renders the beach front at Hunstanton in Norfolk a mysterious blur.

This is the promenade wall of the seaside resort, captured on Christmas Day after watching the much more colourful, rowdy spectacle of the townspeople taking to the freezing sea to raise money for charity. More on that and my trip to Norfolk in the opening days of 2013.

That reminds me to wish you all a very Happy New Year with this muted, monochrome photographic gift. Your support and interaction has been really appreciated in 2012, and long may it continue.