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York

Photos in and around York, UK. 2025-2026.

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Picture of soft purple flowers growing out of a brick wall, sun catching them where they grow around the corner. A little black-and-yellow bumblebee is frozen in flight above them.

Zoomed in picture of a house sparrow on a tree branch, framed and partly covered by bright green leaves, soft and round and out of focus. The sparrow has spots of sunlight hitting it, and its feathers look uncharacteristically sharp, individual barbs sticking out, casting shadows, and overlapping each other. It's unclear where the sparrow is looking - maybe it's seen us, and has turned to look at the camera. Or maybe it's looking elsewhere in its tree.

Outdoor Sparrow

Picture of squirrels poking out between branches. They're in shadow, leaning over dark branches with dark green leaves blurred in the background. One of them is looking at us, and another is barely visible to the side, fluffy tail drooped over the side of the branch.

Sneaky Suspicious Squirrels

Picture of a blackbird perched on a dead tree, head turned to the side, maybe looking at the camera? It's standing on just one leg, and the other's completely hidden (but it is there, don't worry). The sun's just barely touching its neck and beak, and gently touching the tips of dead branches. Trees in the background are in shadow, deep greens with hints of yellow & blue.

Danesmead Blackbird

Picture of a construction site, tower crane stretching out of the frame and into the clear sky, dwarfing an otherwise tall, sunlit tree. Construction only has the skeleton of the building, temporary supports all over the place between the concrete pillars and floors. A couple workers stand in the shade.

Towering Over Nature

Picture of a spanish bluebell, lit almost painfully brightly, its entire background almost black. Each flower is a pale lavender, darker at the base but almost sun-bleached towards the body of the petals.

Spanish Spotlight

Picture of a busy street, sun bleaching the ground and making the leaves glow on trees above. There's so much going on: a man nearby, on the phone and gesuring passionately; undentified legs sticking out from a bench behind a tree; another man leaning on a bollard and looking towards others in the frame; a young adult in the shade, carrying an ice lolly themed shopping bag and looking lost; a woman mid-step, sunglasses on her head, looking back and frowing slightly; a man walking with a mission, glint of sunlight reflecting on his baseball cap; construction in the distance, slightly hazy; and a jackdaw dashing through the pedestrian area, just above a family sitting with coffee.

Parliament Street

Picture of mini pride flags in front of a sign reading "Over The Rainbow LGBTQ+ Cafe". There's a variety of flags - the typical rainbow, the progress flag, and bi, ace, trans, lesbian, non-binary, & genderfluid pride flags. The flags themselves are glowing from the sun hitting them - the only thing in the picture with direct light, even though the flags go from one side of an alley to the other.

Over The Rainbow

Picture of a spherical CCTV camera on a tall pole above a pedestrian street. The camera is pinned in by two strings of flags, and lit without a hint of shadow; the people below are out of focus and in shadow.

Under Observation

Zoomed picture of quince tree flowers. The petals are still curled around a ball shape, white with pink veins giving hints of color through the body of each petal, filling with color at the edges. The leaves around the flowers are a saturated green - some sharply in focus, where you can see their own venation, and others crowding in on the frame in the foreground and filling out the blurry green background.

Vranja Quince flowers I

Picture of a curled, purple anemone flower. Its petals are bright, almost translucent, lit from behind by the afternoon sun, and faintly fuzzy. It's framed on either side by the tall, triangular leaves from another plant, similarly backlit.

Anemone coronaria I

Zoomed picture of a backlit quince tree flower. The petals are bright white, turning to pink at the edges as they trace the vascular structure. The leaves below it are similarly illuminated, alongside darker pink flower buds on each side. The background is a blur of dark greens.

Vranja Quince flowers II

Picture of the flowers on a Crab Apple tree, bright white and catching rays of the afternoon sun. The leaves are bright and glowing, rich textures of the veins visible through the light from behind.

Crab Apple petals I

Picture of a purple anemone flower lit from behind and glowing. It's facing to the side, petals hiding the reproductive parts of the flower. The petals are fading to white at the edges, one drooping behind, yet they still shine with iridescent sparkle in the gaps between the veins.

Anemone coronaria II

Picture of a bundle of flowers on a Crab Apple tree, lit by the sun from the side. Petals are curling in on themselves at the ends, slightly rumpled. Smaller, pink flowers that haven't blossomed yet hide out of the sun. The background has a blur of reds & patches of green.

Crab Apple petals II

Picture of a mossy wooden fence, covered with sticks and hints of leaves. There's a sign on it with splotchy dirt, reading: PRIVATE FISHING, labeled with York Amalgamation of Anglers. Behind the fence, a big puddle in a grassy field and low-hanging barren trees.

Private Fishing

Picture of trees in a flooded field, wooden fence running along either side, and two bare trees rising out of the middle, reflecting off the smooth surface of the water. Clouds & pale blue sky shine over the scene.

Picture of a blue tit, a tiny bird with a short beak, a tuft of blue and white hair on its head, and tiny yellow and white feathers around its body. We're viewing it through some branches, and it's clinging to one, pinning an even tinier flower to its branch, eating the bottom of it.

Picture of a squirrel on a big branch, looking suspiciously at the camera. It's lit by the sun on one side, fur glowing and light shining slightly through an ear with a chunk missing. Beyond it, pale blue skies.

Suspicious Squirrel

A European Robin, standing on a small branch with its mouth wide open. It's looking away from the camera, towards the sun, orange chest feathers glowing bright.

A European Robin, standing on a small branch, head turned back to look at the camera. Its wings are spread slightly behind it, slight shining on its chest and shining through its tail feathers.

Picture of a european robin from the side, perched on a thorny branch and looking at the camera. It's a tiny bird, feathers puffed out to make it round and cozy.

Floof Ball Robin (I)

Close-up picture of a european robin from the side, perched on a thorny branch and looking into the distance. It's a very tiny bird, and its feathers are kind of puffed out to make it round and cozy. There's a little bit of soft light hitting it from the front, making the orange feathers on its breast almost glow.

Floof Ball Robin (II)

Picture of a handful of brown oak leaves on an otherwise dead branch, lit from behind by the setting sun. The light is spotty, only hitting some of the leaves, but where it does, they're completely translucent and glowing, vein structure clearly illuminated. In the blur of the background, there's shapes that hint at trees.

Golden Oak Leaves

Monochrome picture of a statue of lady justice on top of a building. She holds a spear and scales, perfectly balanced, looking down to the side below.

Contempt of Justice (I)

Monochrome picture looking up at a statue of lady justice. She's looking down at the camera, almost smug, with scales that look unbalanced from this angle. She holds a spear in her other hand.

Contempt of Justice (II)

Picture of a small painted statue of an angel between two lamps, a flock of birds motion-blurred in flight behind them against a white sky. The angel holds a shield with the flag of England on it, white with a red cross. The lamps to either side mimic royalty, with curled metal strips suggesting the shape of a crown and little plain flags curling around the top.

Grounded in Reality

Picture of flooding from a river far above its normal levels, nearby stone bridge and brick buildings nearby faded by the low-lying fog. In the foreground, there's a partially submerged "no entry" road sign, and a sign for a local wine bar leaning against it (also submerged), that boasts a "large selection of beers and wine" and says - in all caps - it's open till late, with the lettering on the last line just touching the water.

Picture of a wet city street, cars between red brick buildings, pointed towards a church tower fading as it pokes up into the fog, and a much larger gothic cathedral, disappearing into the white blanket sky.

Picture of a seagull against a white sky, sitting atop a metal and blue glass structure.

Foss Barrier Seagull

Picture of a completely flooded path between brick wall and trees, lamp posts reflected in the water below. There's some houses in the distance, set against a blank white sky but partially obscured by branches reaching down from the trees above the path.

A very grey picture of a cormorant sitting atop a leafless tree, against a colorless sky. Everything is muted - the branches of the tree, the colors of the cormorant, the sky. The cormorant stares into the distance.

Colorless Cormorant

Picture of layers of York - the wall, the road into the city center, and York Minster, emerging from behind brick buildings. The Minster is a huge gothic cathedral made of tan stone, with three towers and sharp spires. It's shrouded in trees half its height, slowly shifting towards autumn colors. A group of red brick buildings, in turn, hide them from view.

Big-ass Cathedral

Picture looking down a length of medieval stone wall, early autumn trees turning yellow on either side, with a group of people walking away from the camera. It's overcast, and the path beyond fades into a gentle blur.

Wandering the Wall

Picture of the old Terry's Chocolate factory in York, faded & rising above rows of houses from a distance. It's a very wide art deco building, red brick and tall windows with a stout clock tower in front. There's tall leafy trees rising above the rooftops, gently framing the now-repurposed factory with shades of green & yellow.

Cloudy & The Chocolate Factory

Picture of the medieval York city wall, bending back on itself as it curves and turns a corner. Trees on either side are in various states of autumn - some fully yellow and losing leaves and others only starting to turn at the edges. There's vibrant green grass below the wall as people wander along the top.

Two people walk on a narrow concrete path beside a river, viewed from a distance and above. They're dwarfed by the trees above & around them, giant sprawling oaks that are starting to get the message it's autumn - leaves all different colors, firey red clashing with muted green.

Photo of the Foss Barrier from a distance. It's a brick, metal, and glass structure arching over the outlet of a narrow river. It's supposed to come down to keep the water from flooding back; there's a staircase up the side from the brick base and an array of hydraulic-looking pipes and boxes at the top, all enclosed in glass, at the top for raising & lowering the barrier itself. Beyond the barrier, a trio of people are crossing a little blue bridge. There's big trees back there, green and turning bright yellow at the tips.

Picture of a sign poster advertising glasses with anti-reflective coating, saying "See clearer. Drive safer", but someone's placed googly eyes on top of the eyes of the person in the poster. A car drives by in the background.

See clearer. Drive safer.

Can you see it?

Soft blue sunset sky above a field of recently cut wheat. There's a row of trees on the other end of the field, with a house and a few farm buildings. Above, layers of moody clouds illuminated by the sunset behind the camera. A wall of stratocumulus clouds covers the horizon, dark blue-grey underneath and softly glowing orange-pink on top.

Fulford Fields at Sunset (1 of 4)

Partly cloudy sky above a sunset. The sun itself is partly obscured by a tree in the distance, and glows orange in front of the clouds, as if actually on fire. Above, there are zig-zagging layers of dark grey clouds with each edge and corner painted yellow and orange by the light. And behind it all, the sky is still a pale blue.

Fulford Fields at Sunset (2 of 4)

Partly cloudy sky after sunset. Red rays of light peek out from a gap in the dark grey clouds that blanket the horizon. Spotty layers of clouds above are on fire at the bottom against a yellow-blue sky. A group of jackdaws fly across a gap in the clouds in the distance.

Fulford Fields at Sunset (3 of 4)

Cloudy sky, a while after sunset. Layers of clouds are dark grey, with small spots of red at the edges where the sun still catches them. The sky behind them forms a gentle gradient from a flamingo orange-pink through yellow to a pale blue. Two jackdaws cross the gap between groups of clouds, visible only as small specs in the distance.

Fulford Fields at Sunset (4 of 4)

Picture looking down a very narrow street with a couple midieval buildings leaning over. There's a handful of people, all walking away from the camera. Signs in various shapes lean into the passageway, reading "Swain Family Butcher", "Shambles Korner", and "Sand Watches Food & Coffee Bar". There's a metal archway obscuring brick buildings in the distance, wires criss crossing between buildings, and above it all, a pigeon darting across a cloudy sky.

Shambles Korner

Picture looking down a prototypical small, multi-story and somewhat old british city street. There's a shop on the left titled "For Est" with plants overflowing down the brick face, and a few small groups of people walking in either direction. The light morning light is casting harsh shadows, some reflected light bouncing into the shadows in the street, and a blinding white sky above it all.

Pedestrian Forest

Picture looking down York's Shambles, a narrow midieval street with tiered buildings all leaning into the street. The shops all have little brown signs dangling out above the street with fancy lettering. A bunch of people are milling about, walking and window shopping. The sky is a blindingly bright white, as if it's glowing, bleaching the street below where not in shadow.

Blinding Shambles

Picture of a british telephone box at night, partially lit on the inside, and a motion blurred person on a moped going past, in the background. The telephone box has clearly been around a while; there's small pieces of moss growing on the glass outside and dirt encroaching on the backlit "telephone" label on top. Inside, there's a notice that reads "We're planning to remove this payphone. Unfortunately it just isn't used enough for us to carry on running it".

We're planning to remove this payphone

Picture of a crow walking along asphault parking spots. It is resolute, spotlessly black except for a few feathers on its wing, tinted brown. A car is parked in the distance behind it.

Walk in the Park

Picture looking down the river Ouse, with small "City Cruises" boats going both directions and stone and steal bridges carrying cars and pedestrians across. Seagulls and pigeons fly overhead, subtle against the bland gray sky. Rows of tall and varied brick buildings line the river, with roofs and chimneys sometimes rhyming between them.

Picture of a thick patch of closed snowdrops, small white flowers that hang down from their stalk in a single long teardrop shape made up of its closed petals. The camera is almost immersed in it, alongside a few slightly mossy sticks. A great tree trunk rises up in the distance.

Picture of a sparrow jumping into the path of a directional TV antenna. It's a Yagi-Uda antenna, a long pointed rod with horizontal cross sections going back towards the square reflector rods. The bird is a bit blurred, wings still tucked tight as it falls.

Picture of a muddy dirt road under arching trees that are all branches and no leaves. Bits of grass, ivy, and moss pop out of the otherwise dull colors. In the distance, the trees fade into a subtle fog and a wide gate closes off the path.

Arborial Archway

Picture of a field of dead grass, mist fading in the distance into sparse trees and a few houses. The grass is softly blurry, out of focus at the bottom of the frame, and too soft from the fog in the middle distance. The scene is almost midwestern, if the midwest had hills in the background.

Hints of Civilization Across a Misty Field (1 of 2)

Picture of farm buildings and houses across a misty, dead grass field. The sky is dull, grey, and bleak; empty space that imposes over the flatness of the landscape, overlapping layers of solitary structures and rows of trees, fading into mist in the distance.

Hints of Civilization Across a Misty Field (2 of 2)

Black and white photo of a high voltage electricity pylon, looking upwards into the criss-cross of metal bars. Barbed wire goes across the bottom of the frame, surrounding a bright yellow sign saying "DANGER OF DEATH. KEEP OFF".

Danger of Death - Keep Off

Picture of a round, leafless tree atop a hill against a bright blue sky dotted with clouds. The hill has green and yellow grass, a kind of messy look that mirrors the fuzz of the hundreds of tiny ends of branches still attached to the tree.

Reaching to the Clouds

Picture of a seagull splashing down in a still pond, its wings forming an kind of 'K' shape with its reflection. A few twigs stick out of the water in the background, likewise mirrored.

Picture of a lone, gnarled tree in an empty field. The field has crops of some kind, but this early in the year it looks almost like low-cut grass. A foggy tree line and flat white sky are behind it all.

Foggy field / Lone tree

Picture of misty path through tall barren trees next to an old grey brick wall and mostly hidden manor house. The sky's completely white, rust colored vines hang from the wall outside the house, and tall dark green bushes dot the front.

Misty Manor Wall

Picture of a grassy field, under a partly cloudy sky. An elevated roadway (England's A64) cuts through leaf-less trees on the other side. Soft clouds in various shades of gray drift across the sky, parallel to the roadway.

Pass-through / A64

Picture of a grand mansion across a grass field, partially obscured by tall, barren trees. Out of frame, other trees cast long shadows across the grass. The sky is a blue so pale that it merges with the clouds out of the corner of your eye.

Bishopthorpe Palace