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  On the 30th, my #Walktober was to the old #London #Necropolis #railway station, where thousands of dead were sent by train to Brookwood Cemetery. They've recently revealed their name again - alas not for a re-opening, but I think for a conversion to fancy flats. And then I went to see some scary #StreetArt faces underneath #Waterloo itself (alas no clear artist's signature) #photography #History #halloween #monsters #monsterdon

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  Today has been a day of many walks. Seven miles west to Clapham for running shoes, just now out to a local open mic night. But the best view was Canada Water's glowing red bridge and the deal porters still lifting wood into the night ( #sculpture by Philip Bews) #Walktober #London #nightPhotography #photography

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  Always nice to see a new face when on a #Walktober wander through the City. #StreetArt by https://www.instagram.com/pattern.and.plaster I think #London #photography #LondonStreetArt #CityOfLondon

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  My #walktober wanders always include the #Barbican - today it wasn't the architecture that caught my eye, but that even the City's citadel can't escape the parched #grass of the #heatwaves! (If anything, worse than most places, as the flats shield it from the rain we've since had!) #London #photography #climateChange #CityOfLondon

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  On Saturday my #walktober stroll was with the @Metwalkers along the #EnglandCoastPath / further #Thames #estuary to #Whitstable and got me my first own view of the Maunsell #sea forts. And a #seagull that looked like it was about to dive-bomb for abandoned oyster-bits. #photography #history #naturePhotography #birds

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  #Walktober wandering the posher bits of #London I see that whilst #Mayfair usually tends towards restraint in its opulence, for #Halloween they enjoy conspicuous consumption 💀🎃👻 Of course, some places have been covered in #skulls since they were built!! #photography #streetPhotography

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  Always remember to look up. I often pass this bit of #StreetArt by Mark Allum, which recalls the weaving #history of #Shoreditch, but only sometimes do I notice it. #Walktober #London #photography

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  I've a coworker who makes jokes about Londoners not know what grass or #stars look like. But then, he's never seen the Blythe skies of #Catford (Zone 3) And nor had I until a #walktober evening #walk took me that way. #Astrophotography #nightphotography #London #lookUp #photography

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  A joy of #walktober is the number of foxes I see when I'm doing these urban evening walks - autumn is when a young #fox leaves the den and finds their own homes. Alas, the darker evenings means I often get rather blurry photos, but sometimes blur can tell a good story – like these two foxes chasing each other around a churchyard, or one of them framed by the tree and the light. #photography #Nature #London #naturePhotography #urbanwildlife #nightphotography

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  Red #sky in the evening, #bankers are thieving… (I spent another 20 minutes after this shot chasing the #sunset, but didn't get any better than this early one. Yet it was not 20 minutes wasted.) #Photography #London #CityOfLondon #walktober

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  #Walktober-ing to a brutal @Metwalkers group walk, I looked down and saw people crossing #London Bridge 😍 #photography #reflection #sunset #ThamesPath #river

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  Five and a half hours #walktober wandering #Brighton, but the moment that sticks with me is standing on the pier watching a #murmuration as it whirled from #sunset to twilight and back again, flying faster than the speed of #night. (1/3) #photography #birdPhotography #naturePhotography #beach #birds #walking #silhouette #SilentSunday

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  " #EatTheRich! " #Deptford creek whispers to me I glance to my right. I've been doing a lot of #Walktober walking recently – I am quite hungry, it's true. #Walktober #photography #London #LondonsRivers #ThamesPath

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  Last night my #walktober was in pursuit of trickery that isn't. Coworker asked "Was it really that colourful or is it a #trick?" on my sunsets—here I've tried to show how the panning technique gives a better feel of speed than a blur (and both are generally better than false stillness), or how angle changes the feel of a static statue. There's a point #perspective or editing becomes deception, but also a lot of 'flat' photos that don&...

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  Something that @Metwalkers group walks bring home to me is how much the years of wandering and #photography have changed how I see the world. Something interesting/fun/weird catches my eye, but everyone else is still pouring past, they haven't seen it. #walktober #London #perception #WeirdLondon

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  Between the bridges, with a road like a moat. A #liminalSpace, where a fugitive can float #Walktober #London #BlackAndWhitePhotography #photography

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  You've read of the TIME CUBE, now eat of the TIME KEBAB!! Four #Kebabs simultaneously consumed! Uh, you've not read of the #TimeCube? Oh dear, are you one of the Young People? https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/ (A #Bellingham #Walktober wander sent be back to the #internet's early days 😄) #photography #nightPhotography #London #takeaway #InternetHistory

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  Rewilding the #Rotherhithe Gasholder (Okay, it's just a tree in front of it, but imagine a #gasholder all overgrown in ivy…) #NightPhotography #Walktober #photography #London

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  "I will take the ring to the #fire of Mount Doom, through the lands of #Bermondsey, though I do not know if the trains are still running…" "One does not simply #PARK in Bermondsey!" "You have my hose" "AND MY LADDER!" Thanks to the #FireBrigade for being on the scene, and can entirely see why my train was stopped at Surrey Quays! #London #LordOfTheRings #photography #TellingStories

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  "I will not be penned, fettered, sealed, imprisoned, bound, secured, or fastened. My #trash is my own." #ThePrisoner #London #photography

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  #EmoticonsInTheWild 😯 #paredolia #facesinthings #emoji #facesinPlaces #photography

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  The tall fortress of the King in the West guards the days ending #sunset #London #photography #architecture

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  That'll explain the delays then #LondonUnderground #photography #SignsOfTheTimes #London

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  Wow, the reboot of #Knightmare is going really meta #London #photography #nostalgia #Television

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  You took me right out of the blue Simply by showing that you love me too Only by giving me your everything With a #love so true, you took me out of the #blue #MomentsFromAMovingTrain #Lyrics by #MichaelLearnsToRock / #MLTR & THE BLUE by Blue #Bermondsey #photography #sunset #London

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  "Oh, you again, Daddy mentioned you! Well, looks like you don't have a choice this time - the unimaginable is coming right this way!! HOW FAST CAN YOU RUN?" This time seen near the #RiverLea between #Hertford and #Welwyn #Fox #NaturePhotography #wildlifewednesday #RiverLea #TellingStories #wildlife #wildlifePhotography

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  #Art is precious. And rare. And everywhere ❤️ (I think I nicked/adapted that line from some graffiti I've seen. But I can't remember exactly what or where 🤣) #StreetArt #Photography #London #BirdOfPrey

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  Finally! A #BiblicallyAccurate "Made with the help of the pupils of X school" #sculpture! (Artist is possibly Jonathan Waller. No idea if the kids helped! 😉) #Photography #psychogeography #London

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  It's not a gherkin. Built like an apple corer to extract the City's dark heart, all that selfish greed, yet leave #London's thousand thousand loves, tales and nations, flowing down the Thames. Never reached the heart, bounced off an impenetrable shield of privilege. So they put offices in, and called it a #gherkin #TellingStories #architecture #skyscraper #photography

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  "Scared of a #mouse? Gods, you're such a stereotype." "I'M NOT SCARED I'M ALERGIC! 😡" #LondonUnderground #photography #wildlifePhotography #London #UrbanWildlife #ElizabethLine