jayjayjjetplane

Mothballed account.
Find me on Threads.

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Very pleased to announce that my photo, 'Local News for Local People' is one of the three winners of Picturing Walsall.
Huge thanks to @grainphotohub @newartgallery & @HistoricEngland for running this fabulous competition!
Colour me chuffed 😊

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@SueMasonBurns

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If you like my photography, you can find me on Threads and on Instagram. Bye bye Twitter 🖖🏻

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Thank God for immigrants.

I am the son of an immigrant. My mother came in search of a better life & married the son of an immigrant. I was educated, mentored & inspired by immigrants.  I fell in love & made a wonderful family with an immigrant ❤️

[Acorns Children's Hospice @AcornsHospice]

ℹ The Children's Hospice Grant - a vital ringfenced fund worth over £2,000,000 to Acorns every year - is under threat. Here's how you can help 👇

Stand up for the most vulnerable members of our community. Help Acorns to #SaveTheGrant.

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Abstractions

Continuing my obsession with capturing the multiple layers of reflections. For me, the devil is very much in the surface detail 😘

[Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum]

Looks like Roary is embracing the sunshine!

Why not visit the #Museum this #summer - we have tours, Family Fun days, and the finest geological collection in the region!

Image by @jayjayjjetplane.

#LapworthRocks #geologyrocks #palaeontology #fossils #minerals #dinosaurs

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Holding Hands

Taking photos of people is, for me, a privilege. The images I make are mostly candid, snapshots of real life happening in front of me. There is so much joy to be found in these quiet moments of humanity.

Thanks for looking 👊🏻

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A huge thank you to everyone who liked, shared or commented with memories, trivia & stories about my photo post yesterday.
I've been quite overwhelmed by the positive response. There were so many lovely comments that it took on a life of its own!

Thank you so so much 🙏🏻

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@TimWhitleytimw1 @sonyaphotoart Tim, these are wonderful! I think your Mum needs an exhibition to show her beautifully enigmatic art off to a wider audience!

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The rural fields, derelict boats & monumental towers combine to create a surreal scene!
Amongst it all is a friendly community of boat people. I am deeply thankful for their generosity🙏🏻
If you're ever in the area, give the Marina Cafe a visit, you won't be disappointed 👌

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A Field in England

On the hottest day of the year, I took a trip across the Midlands to see the last functioning coal fired power station in the UK.
Except, it didn't quite work out that way. I got quite distracted by the extraordinary scenes I found in a nearby field.... ⬇️

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Sitting in the shadow of Ratcliffe Power Station is Redhill Marina. People bring their boats & barges from all over, seeking repairs at the workshops here.
Vessels are lifted from the water & parked in the fields, where they're repaired, lived in or sometimes, left to rot away 😔

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@CyberSaffron Hello & thank you 😊🙏🏻
These are a mix of shots taken with my Fuji XT20 & Ricoh GRii 📸
I like to use spot metering when shooting bnw, aimed at the highlights the shadows fall away nicely 👌

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Diverted

Hello Everybody 👋
In the last few weeks, I seem to have been bitten by the black & white bug 🕷
After watching 'Ripley', I've been captivated by how the contrast between black & white can create tremendous depths of depth & cinematic atmosphere 📽

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That's meant to say depths of mood, stoopid phone!

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Sweet Caroline at the Graduation ceremony @unibirmingham today 🤩

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@TheLockwoodEcho Thank you! 🙏🏻🤩
My excuse is, the older I get, the fuzzier my vision gets 😂
Seriously tho', taking pix whilst wearing varifocals is an artform in its own right 😉🤣

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Surface tension

Reflections: Yeah, I'm obsessed 😇 I do struggle at times to keep things interesting, so I've gotten into the habit of looking for imperfect reflections to deepen the sense of abstraction. I have to work harder to make good images, but it's worth the effort 📸🤩

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Agreed!

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

It seems to me that the portrayal of the Labour win as shallow because of the vote share is misleading. This was a ‘get the tories out’ election. For different people that generally meant voting Labour, Lib Dem, Green or Reform. But in doing so they all knew they’d get a Labour government and did it deliberately. In reality even Reform voters actually voted for Keir Starmer to be PM.

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I Voted! #VoteLabour