An endless blanket of thick grey cloud. Barely a breath of wind. Nothing moves or changes.
This is the weather we’ve had on repeat in Manchester and much of the UK recently, as a vast autumn anticyclone settled over us.
Sluggish grey skies tend to put a downer on capturing colourful, active photographs.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. In my Castlefield neighbourhood, the waterways were so still that reflections were solid and dynamic. Autumn leaves hadn’t been strewn about in the wind.
One morning the gloom descended deeper in the guise of fog, making the local skyscrapers shrouded and eerie.
Do you like the dull calm or prefer your weather to move faster?































