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#Rainbow #Photography #RDGUK

This evening in #ReadingUK
A rainbow arcs over an urban English back garden near dusk. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Blurred bus

#BlueSkyArtShow #Blur #Photography #StreetPhotography #Transport #Buses #ReadingUK #RDGUK
Long exposure shot of a green bus on an urban street at night, featuring reflected roman blinds. Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#UrbanGaze #Windows #Signage #Glass #ReadingUK #Photography
A modern building with two storeys of metal-framed windows. Translucent, solid-colour graphics with multiple cutouts have been applied to a horizontal strip of windows near the ground floor. The blue sky with wispy clouds is reflected in the upper windows. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 24, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #AOFoto #Signage #Glass #ReadingUK #Photography
Large, translucent, solid-colour graphics with multiple cutouts have been applied to a series of windows. The window at the centre of the image has a louvred-glass section and through the gaps we see a leafy tree. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 23, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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#FensterFreitag #Windows #Signage #Glass #ReadingUK #Photography
Large, translucent, solid-colour graphics with multiple cutouts have been applied to a series of four large window panes. Red, green, yellow, blue. Through the gaps we see a blue sky, the concrete tops of another part of the same building and a leafy tree. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 25, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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51.45577, -0.97939

#BlueSkyArtShow #Curve #ReadingUK #Architecture #ClassicMono #Photography
Looking up at a modern apartment building featuring eight storeys of curved and glazed balconies. An apartment dweller on the third floor has arranged clothing on the railing to dry. Chatham Place, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
June 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings: Victorian Vent

#ReadingUK #Photography
An ornate terracotta ventilation cover in a red brick wall. A damp stain in the lower left corner suggests that a small- to medium-sized dog had recently established this building as his territory. Reading Town Hall (constructed in 1872 to the designs of Alfred Waterhouse), Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
April 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Taken earlier today for #BlueSkyArtShow #Angles and #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines.

#ReadingUK #RDGUK #Windows #Photography
Looking up at a large, multi-panel, gabled glass ceiling and a glass elevator that reaches up towards it. Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Street -shadow +contrast +saturation

#Photography #StreetPhotography #ReadingUK #RDGUK
Street scene on a rainy night with the bright blue-white lights of an approaching bus, the hazy yellow of streetlights, and the red rear lights of a passing car. Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 8, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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#Architecture #Brutalism #Parking #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A photograph of the cast concrete walls of a parking structure with abstract vertical cutouts allowing light into the building. Düsseldorf Way, Reading, Berkshire. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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#One #BlueSkyArtShow

#Signage #Logos #OneStationHill #ReadingUK #Architecture #Photography
The word/name ONE formed from outlines of basic shapes (two semi-circles, two triangles, and two rectangles) is rendered in metal and applied to a concrete pillar of an office building. One Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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#Architecture #Brutalism #Parking #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A photograph of the cast concrete walls of a parking structure with abstract vertical cutouts allowing light into the building. Düsseldorf Way, Reading, Berkshire. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Another experiment with long exposures on an iPhone from the other night.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #ReadingUK #RDGUK #iPhone
Street scene on a rainy night through beads of rain on a window, with reflected light on roman blinds and the red rear lights of a passing car. Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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51.40043, -0.89851

#ForestFriday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid #Scape #Landscape #ReadingUK #Photography
An unpaved lane lined by very green trees, with a ford to the left and a stone pedestrian bridge to the right. The still water reflects the brighter foliage above. Cole Lane, Arborfield, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
June 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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Hopeful kitteh, now with sound!

#caturday #birdSong #uk #readingUK #england #tuxedocat #catVideo
March 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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#ThursdayBins #RDGUK #ReadingUK
An urban English front garden, paved, with three wheelie bins numbered 6, 6, and 6. Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 12, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Made fresh daily

#WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge
#Books #History #Retail #Signage #ReadingUK #Photography
Books, facing out, on black shelves. Above them a sign reads "New History." Waterstones book shop, Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
January 12, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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#ThursdayBins #ReadingUK #Photography #Signage
Two windows at the back of a burger bar with three refuse/recycling wheelie bins standing outside on a sloped pavement. A church tower is reflected in the window, directly below the word "BAR." Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke. Honest.
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Concrete swirl

#Architecture #Concrete #Staircase #ReadingUK #Photography
A monotone image with a sequence of overlapping curved slabs winding around a central point, forming a column. In other words, looking up at a concrete spiral staircase. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Caged concrete

#Architecture #Concrete #Staircase #ReadingUK #Photography
Exterior shot of a round, metal, tower-like structure. Behind the steel bars are curved slabs of concrete, forming a spiral staircase for a parking structure. Oak Way, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #Windows #Museums #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
Through the stained fine mesh of a UV-blocking window blind we can see the top floors of a Georgian-style building with six-over-six panelled windows. Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Four ground

#UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #LookDown #Signage #RoadSigns #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
Looking down to a tarmac road surface with a mix of red and yellow single- and double-line markings. The arrangement and crop of the photo suggest a "4" in bright red. Minster Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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#BlueSkyMonday #Signage #Branding #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A blue sky with some cirrus clouds is interrupted by a circular sign protruding from a brown-panelled building. The sign features a white star on a maroon background. Pret A Manger, Station Approach, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
June 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Has #paddington appeared in your town or city? Here he is with his marmalade sandwich in #ReadingUK #photography #art
November 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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It was a dark day at the hospital yesterday, but there was light and colour to be found.

#ReadingUK #Perspective #Photography
Light, from a burning spheroid of plasma about 1.496×10⁸ kilometres away, filters through translucent window graphics and brings colour to the grey floor of a skybridge. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
June 16, 2026 at 7:49 AM