Bound by rivers and city walls, land inside the city was tight, so the streets shrunk to fit, Mad Alice Lane. Just imagine this area without electric lights... 
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Set in a vale and surrounded by rivers and hills, all emptying to the ever nearing sea, the city of York is a photogenic journey of time. This blog journey also includes photos of Renaissace-Illuminating York www.renaissanceyork.org.uk for more info.Please respect the copyright of the photographer.
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- Learning to view the world anew and share the things I see. Each day is a new step on old paths revisited. So guess that makes me just one more passenger on this planet of ours.
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- a jewel of the present caught in the fading colo...
- Such is the life a cobble in York, one minute flo...
- Touched by the fire of the setting sun.
- In a bid to beat costs and congestion, the stude...
- How the West End got it's name.
- Photographed and painted a million times, yet th...
- One day you are part of a great hall, Barley hall,...
- :: Welcome to York - Media ::
- Bound by rivers and city walls, land inside the c...
- Sitting in 2000 years of history seemed as good ...
- The sun setting through the doorway of history.
- With falling visitor numbers, the tourist board r...
- Where choirs once sang, bird song fills the empt...
- Being in Yorkshire, the civic governement sun di...
- With the passing of being a tidal river, no long...
- Even the stone defenders fall defenceless to the...
- All long the watch tower.
- Metal mirroring bark, while shadows guard the li...
- As the sun fell, the shadows grew in to one anoth...
- Tales from the river bank.
- Telling stories, the stones whispering to the sun.
- Where once defenders walked.
- Following the curve of the rebuild for the moder...
- As the sun sets, the shadow of the fallen reach ...
- "Yeah and the moon is made from milk!"
- Honest dad, the mouse was this big!
- In the city of churches, a new religious icon is w...
- Mulberry Hall putting it's best foot forward for...
- Snickleways break into the gas light of hidden s...
- Over one of York's hidden streets, the light of ...
- A rose by any other name, rebuilt after shatteri...
- Stonegate getting ready for the hoards at xmas.
- The good witch of the north, arrives to turn on ...
- The gadget for the man in your life this xmas, a ...
- First Emperor to be proclaimed outside Italy, Con...
- Simple window decorations for xmas are always cla...
- Looking up the Shambles in silence where once the...
- Rare sighting of twin moons and pigeon prongs
- Curving edges and a realisation that the spainis...
- This advert was sponsored by supersize me corp an...
- Where Little Shambles meets Big Shambles, draw yo...
- Both moon and buildings remembering markets past.
- For a city built upon it's market and trading po...
- Twin lanterns in the sky guiding in the faithful.
- "And the winner of this season's universal sky ral...
- You do not have to be in-spired to be inspired.
- The local priests took their theological differen...
- York's light art making use of redundant churches.
- Tinkerbell escapes.
- With history, subtle lighting works best.
- In a world of time and motion, even the moon has ...
- Near this spot Dick Turpin awaited his final jou...
- Castle Museum, built on the remains of a prison...
- A final resting place for so many by their own h...
- The end of cloud trail and the view that puts pe...
- In this day of Grab it and Sue, in the world of p...
- The cycle of heavens turn and once moon she comes ...
- Sometimes standing in the right spot at the right...
- A city where many paths of religion meet under t...
- The local council is saving money by using eco-f...
- Kissed by a gentle light .
- Broken by time and now an industrial relic, it s...
- In stillness, watching the clouds chase the moon...
- To catch a big fish, you need a rod that is up t...
- Like a 50's sci-fi movie, the industrial giant s...
- When the water has dropped and the ghosts restin...
- Lit from above and below while the river danced.
- After the floods and the tourist summer, life sl...
- Finally the moon found the front door and escaped.
- The moon goddess suddenly got a fit of coyness w...
- Suddenly the moon realised she was not as slim a...
- The moon as the night watch saw her from their p...
- Like a flame in a watchtower, the moon glowed th...
- The glowing ball rested on turret before heading...
- In the stillness, you can start to hear the shou...
- The eye of the night sky looking down on the eye ...
- "I am your guide for tonights ghost tour..."
- As the moon fills the sky, so do the hidden citi...
- Newmarket, hidden in small square in the heart o...
- The Shambles at night, once a blood filled stree...
- Xmas star and moon.
- The shadows of what human kind build across the ...
- Where is the Hammer Horror contract?
- Walking where many have walked before.
- From such moments of universal timing and human p...
- Sometimes nature has to show the true light in the...
- Amibitious lights.
- The memory of the fallen haloed.
- The moon seeking to claim the roof tops.
- When the colour has left , all that is left is t...
- Bridge to bridge the river flows beyond.
- Tom and Fred tried not to laugh at how Sam had m...
- Unseen the river slipped by history.
- Only two cities have I seen for the first time in...
- Moon river.
- Like dolls houses and toy models on black glass.
- Light art, just take street lights, a nearly ful...
- Without the dark, the light would be out of a job.
- With a moon in a light cloud, the next problem f...
- Renaissance: Illuminating York
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