Index of Articles and Pages for Damien Walmsley
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- A City in Mourning: Remembering Ozzy Osbourne in the Heart of Birmingham
- A conversation with a Heron
- A Day in Bourton-on-the-Water: Cars, Charm, and a Brewery Bonus
- A Digbeth sunset followed by the blue hour
- A few recent likes
- A Foggy Morning at Cracks Hill
- A foggy start to the day in Birmingham
- A Glorious Day
- A Library Without Books: More Photographs of the Library of Birmingham
- A psychedelic colour tunnel in Utrecht
- A return to Kew Gardens and a day to remember
- A spectacular poppy field in Bewdley
- A week in pictures
- A Winter’s walk around Edstone
- Adding a splash of colour to the streets of Cheltenham
- All aboard Echills Wood Railway
- An August Morning after the Storms
- An early start to Middleton Lakes RSPB
- An evening in Weston super Mare
- An Evening on the Confetti fields
- An update on the Ringway centre
- Are You Lost Yet? A Walk Beneath Spaghetti Junction
- Arrow Valley Country Park
- Aston Hall
- Aurora Borealis as seen from my back garden
- Autumnal colours at Birmingham Botanical Gardens lights up IgersbirminghamUK Instameet
- Autumnal days on the University of Birmingham Campus
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- Back on the streets
- Back to backs 20th anniversary visit
- Baddesley Clinton in the Winter
- BBC Reality Labs
- BCN 250th Anniversary
- Before the lifting of restrictions
- Behind the Scaffolding: A Glimpse Inside the Golden Lion
- Ben Lomond
- Beneath the Sun: Experiencing Helios at Coventry Charterhouse
- Berkswell windmill keeps the sails turning.
- Best of the week
- Bike Riding in May
- Birmingham Blossom
- Birmingham Blossom Watch
- Birmingham Christmas Markets: Food, Lights and Festive Atmosphere
- Birmingham Demonstration for Ceasefire in Gaza January 2024
- Birmingham Gems
- Birmingham Gems (3rd Edition)
- Birmingham goes green for St Patrick’s Day
- Birmingham heritage week – Visiting the Greek orthodox cathedral
- Birmingham Lockdown #2 – a photographic journey of the first morning
- Birmingham Lockdown #2 – a visit to the Mailbox
- Birmingham Lockdown #2 – New Street Art in Digbeth
- Birmingham Photowalk with Marcin SZ: Amazing Winter Light
- Birmingham Post and Mail
- Birmingham sunset and sunrise from the Octagon
- Birmingham, Perry and the Commonwealth Games
- BirminghamGems
- Black and White
- Black and White Architecture in Birmingham
- Black and white at the Mill
- Black and White Birmingham – A Misty Walk Along the Canals
- Black and White Travel
- Blossom in Oozells’ Square
- Blue heaven with the bluebells of Hay Wood
- Blue Hour in Digbeth: Winter Street Photography at Sunset
- Blue, Blue, my first look into the world of Cyanotype printing
- Bluebell Heaven
- Bluebell walk in Great Alne Woods
- Bluebells in Austy Wood
- Bluebells in the Heart of England Forest
- Borealis: bringing the northern lights to the Bullring in Birmingham
- Bostin day at a propa Black Country Folk Festival
- Botanical Gardens Instameet
- Bridges
- Bubbles
- Burnham on Sea Lighthouse
- Burning a path for craft beer
- Burst of Colour on the Streets of Worcester
- Burton Dassett Hills Country Park – escape to the countryside
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- Captured on the Walls: Birmingham’s Vibrant Street Art
- Centenary Square
- Chase the Rainbow
- Cherry Blossom experiments
- Chesterton Windmill
- Chesterton Windmill revisited
- Christmas Cheer at Packwood House
- City Arcade – Birmingham’s hidden gem
- Clifton and the Bridge
- Clifton to Bedminster
- Clowes Wood
- Compton Verney; a photographic walk on the last day of 2020
- Confetti Fields
- Confetti Fields 2019
- Confetti Fields 2020
- Cool light on the poppies
- Coombe Abbey Country Park during the Golden Hour
- Coughton Court
- Coventry looking good in the sun
- Cracks Hill
- Cricks Wood and Cracks Hill
- Croome
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- Dancing in the City
- Day out to the Confetti fields and Pershore old bridge
- Days out on the Canal
- Deconstructed Landscape
- Details from the West Midlands Police Museum – photos taken during an IgersbirminghamUK Instameet
- Digbeth Art
- Digbeth lights
- Digbeth Photography – Capturing Change in Birmingham’s Creative Quarter
- Digbeth Street Photography
- Digbeth, Digbeth (so good they named it twice)
- Disco powers the beating heart of Birmingham
- Discovering St Alban the Martyr Church during Birmingham Heritage Week
- Discovering the Serbian Church of the Holy Prince Lazar in Bournville
- Diwali in the Bull Ring
- Down by the Canal
- Dragon Boat Racing
- Druids Heath – a place for change
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- Early
- Early blossom brings colour to Oozells Square
- East is East
- East Midlands Aeropark
- Edinburgh – the tourist view
- Edinburgh street photography
- Eerie tree landscapes created by the fog
- Eleven Pictures
- Elmdon Manor Walled Garden: Solihull’s Hidden Retreat
- England’s Big Picture
- England’s Big Picture 03/2020
- Englands Big Picture
- Englands Big Picture #2
- Exploring King’s Cross
- Exploring the Northern path of Draycote Water
F
- FarGo Market
- Father of the Bride
- Featured in the book – my reflections on Landscape Photographer of the Year 2023
- Feel the force at Colwith Force, Little Langdale
- Festival of Light
- Finishing the Job
- Flash, Bang, Wallop Podcast
- Flora
- Flowers in my garden
- Flowers in the Garden
- Fog
- Fog in the morning
- Following the colour walls at the Cheltenham Paint Festival
- For the Love of Concrete – Part 2
- Fort Dunlop
- Four Churches Bike Ride
- From Queensway to New Street
- From Square to Park – an IgersbirminghamUK instameet
- From Storm Clouds to Tudor Calm: My Visit to Canons Ashby
- From the Mona Lisa to a McChurch: Exploring Imbue’s Vision
- Fun in the High Street
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- Hay Wood: my forrest adventure with my camera
- Hello Manchester, my old friend
- High Speed China
- High Vis 2023 celebrating 50 years of HipHop
- High Vis Festival 2021
- High Vis Festival 2022
- Hillmorton Locks: the busiest in the UK
- Home gallery
- Home page
- HS2 – What’s happening now?
- HS2 and 16 acre wood – nature is fighting back.
- HS2 gathers pace at Curzon Street
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- I joined the RSPB and you should too!
- I love Kardamena
- I love Kardamena 2022
- Ibizan Villa Scenes
- IgersBirmingham
- IgersbirminghamUK invited by Friends of Edgbaston Reservoir to hold an Instameet.
- IgersbirminghamUK visits the University of Birmingham
- Imaging Dublin with my camera
- In Explore
- In Memoriam by Luke Jerram
- In the Dark
- Is it Christmas yet? Birmingham thinks it is!
- It is a long way to Tipperary and back to Knowle
- It only takes a minute
J
K
- Kenilworth Castle 2021
- Key Hill Cemetery Instameet – IgersbirminghamUK
- Key to Green Lane Mosque
- Key to the City Brum
- Key to the trains and the football
- Keys to the Blyden’s Garden and the Legacy Centre
- Kingswood Junction
- Knife Angel
- Knowle trees feel the force of Storm Darragh
- Kuan Xiangzi and Zhai Xiangzi
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- Last days of Lockdown #3
- Last days of September
- Lavender’s Blue
- Leamington Street Art
- Let it snow
- Lighting Up the dark nights: Chasing the Colours at Birmingham Light Festival
- Lighting up the night at Compton Verney
- Lockdown 3: Walking along the Grand Union Canal
- Lockdown begins
- Lockdown in Digbeth
- Lockmasters’ Cottages
- London Streets
- London Times – Chair outside St Paul’s tube station
- London Times – Night life on the South Bank
- London Times – Sunset at Paddington Basin
- London Times – The London Horizon from Horizon22
- London Times – Early at Borough Market
- London Times – High Noon on the Millennium Bridge
- London times – taking in the streets of Islington and Shoreditch
- London Times: A canal, a basin, a river and a wharf
- Lord Leycester’s Hospital
- Lovely Luss
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- Made in Birmingham/Made in Sydney
- Majors Green Aqueduct and the North Stratford Canal
- Manchester Stroll
- Martineau Gardens Instameet – IgersbirminghamUK
- Maryvale
- Memories of the Colmore Food Festival 2023
- Memories of Washington State
- Merry Christmas 2018
- Middleton Lakes RSPB
- Mist at Packwood
- Mist in the Park
- Mist in the Park
- Mist, Lobster Rolls, and a Lighthouse: My visit to Peggy’s Cove
- Moor Pool Heritage – IgersbirminghamUK
- Morning Stroll
- Moseley Instameet – IgersBirminghamUK
- Museum of the Moon
- My best pictures are taken with my iPhone
- My camera takes pictures: S1 Ep1 – Fujifilm
- My Custard Factory Beat
- My Daughter’s Greek Island Wedding
- My Key opens another three locks
- My poppy photograph in IGPOTY 2024
- My winning picture in the Brum through our eyes competition.
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- Neowise
- New Lockdown#2 pictures, more views across the City
- New Look Website
- Nifty Fifty
- Night on the Canals
- Night Photography during Lockdown #3
- Night photography on the University of Birmingham campus
- Night Time Photography
- No Ghosts were harmed by my Key
- Normanton Church
- Nothing but flowers in my garden
O
- O Christmas Tree, How lovely are thy lights!
- Oil and water
- Oil on the water
- One walk a day
- Open all hours with my key
- Opening the door to a treasure trove of history – my visit to the Birmingham Museum Collection Centre
- Opening Up
- Orelle Restaurant
- Ozzy on the final road to a new home, the bull is back
- Ozzy the Bull is unveiled and has pride of place in New Street station.
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- Packwood House and Baddesley Clinton – Two houses that are ready for Christmas
- Peaceful pictures
- People and Light
- People watching outside Selfridges windows on Oxford Street.
- Photographic moments from Cannon Hill Park
- Photographic recollections from Glasgow’s West End
- Photographing a Cathedral
- Photographing Atomium
- Photographing Berlin
- Photographing Birmingham (May 2018)
- Photographing Bristol
- Photographing Chester
- Photographing Cologne
- Photographing Dubai – 2018
- Photographing Dublin
- Photographing Edinburgh
- Photographing Glasgow
- Photographing Gloucester
- Photographing Greenwich: A Day at the Amateur Photographer Festival
- Photographing Hanbury Hall
- Photographing Iceland
- Photographing Johannesburg
- Photographing Kenilworth Castle
- Photographing Kuala Lumpur
- Photographing Little Venice
- Photographing Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Photographing London
- Photographing London Docklands
- Photographing Melbourne
- Photographing Mount Rainier
- Photographing Nanjing
- Photographing Norwich Cathedral and the Close
- Photographing Oxford
- Photographing Ragley Hall
- Photographing Riyadh
- Photographing Royal Leamington Spa
- Photographing Singapore
- Photographing Southampton
- Photographing São Paulo
- Photographing the codebreakers of Bletchley Park
- Photographing the Cotswolds
- Photographing the Eden Project
- Photographing the Library of Birmingham
- Photographing the lockdown in Solihull Town Centre
- Photographing the streets and canals of Utrecht
- Photographing the Streets of Ibiza
- Photographing the sunrise at Trwyn Penmon point, Anglesey
- Photographing the West Midlands Police Museum
- Photographing the wood from the trees at Hagley Park
- Photographing Time Horizon by Antony Gormley
- Photographing Vancouver – Electric Harbour Tours
- Photographing Vancouver – Playing Tourist
- Photographing Vancouver– Around the Marina
- Photographing Vancouver– Stanley Park
- Photographing Wolverhampton: A City in Transition
- Photography Inspiration: Finding Creativity in Hay Wood
- Pictures at an exhibition celebrating the beauty of photographs from Westside BID calendar
- Pigeon Talk and other conversations – black and white Birmingham
- Please put the sails back on Chesterton windmill
- PoliNations
- Poppies in the Light: Witherley at Sunset and Sunrise
- Poppies on the morning edge
- Poppy Fields
- Poppy Fields in Leamington Spa
- Port Loop
- Pumpkin Extravaganza at the Jewellery Quarter
- Putting the sails back on Chesterton Windmill
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- Railway Arches, Coffee Shops, and Quiet Streets: Discovering Balsall Heath
- RBSA exhibition 2023
- Reach for the sky
- Reflecting Reflections
- Reflections
- Reflections After Dark: Photographing Birmingham’s Campus in the Rain
- Reflections on Gas Street Basin
- Regency Wharf
- Regent Street Lights
- Route 61 and two more keys
- Royal Coronation High Street celebration
- Rugby Town Centre: A Street Photographer’s View
- Running with an iPhone
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- Sand, Concrete and Steel
- Selfridges starts Christmas in style
- Selfridges Study
- Send me to the City of Coventry
- Shadows and Light
- Sistine Chapel
- Sixteen Acre Wood
- Skychasing
- Slater’s Bridge and Cathedral Cave – a circular walk
- Snow Spring Time
- Snowfall at First Light: A January Walk Through Knowle
- Social media algorithms and your photography
- Spaghetti Junction 50 years on
- Spaghetti Junction Rollercoaster
- Spaghetti Junction Stories: A Photo Essay
- Sparkles, Skates & Santa – Warwick Castle light trail
- Spring equinox at Chesterton Windmill
- Spring is here
- St Agnes and the Tin Mines
- St Chad’s Cathedral welcomes IgersbirminghamUK
- St George’s Park
- St Paul’s Church
- St Paul’s Church in the spring
- Standing with Giants
- Stannels Bridge reveals textures and shapes
- Starcross Yard – an escape from Euston Station
- Starry Night
- Stars in the Sky
- Starting off the year with reflections
- Steps
- Steve Gunn
- Stirchley Taster with the Prism Photography network
- Stratford Greenway
- Stratford upon Avon in January
- Street Photography with the GFX100RF and MrWhisper
- Street sights in Silicon Spa
- Streets of Newquay
- Strolling’ through the City
- Sturgeon New Moon
- Subway street art and hip hop: A reflection on the Epic Story of Graffiti
- Summertime and the poppies are back
- Sunday lunch at Orelle restaurant
- Sunrise in Kardamena
- Super Blood Wolf Moon
- Super Duper Moon
- Surgeons Pandemic Memorial
- Suspended Worlds – with oil and water
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- Taking the boat on Lake Windermere – Lakehead to Bowness
- Talking about compost and bees in Digbeth
- Terracotta and Skylines: Exploring Paradise Birmingham’s New Landmark – Three Chamberlain Square
- Thank you – The Open Arms
- Thanksgiving 2023-visiting the Evergreen State-Washington-USA
- That Birmingham Footbridge
- That was then, this is now
- The Birmingham Bull
- The Birmingham Cathedral Christmas market
- The Birmingham Oratory
- The blossoms on Oozells Square herald the start of spring
- The Bright Lights of Central London this Christmas
- The brutal beauty of Exchange Square
- The Chancellor’s Dinner
- The changing face of Selfridges
- The closing of the Floodgate in Digbeth
- The colour purple – a visit to Warwickshire Lavender Farm
- The Concrete Cathedral: A Journey Under Spaghetti Junction
- The continuing story of HS2 and 16 Acre wood
- The damage to 16 acre wood
- The discs are back in town
- The Exchange meets IgersBirminghamUK
- The Fate of the Bull
- The fog creates a black and white landscape
- The Icons walk from Five ways to Victoria Square with IgersbirminghamUK
- The key opens a special meal
- The lights are on at Birmingham for those long winter nights.
- The Malvern Hills and my camera
- The MECC Bus: A Moving Hub of Community Spirit in Balsall Heath
- The Museum of Flight
- The National Memorial Arboretum with Igers_staffordshire
- The next train is for Worcester Foregate Street
- The noisy London pedicabs
- The North Cornish Coast
- The Octagon is the new kid on the block
- The Open Arms
- The photographic delights of Umberslade Park
- The Photography Show 2021
- The Photoshow on the British Tech Network
- The Piccadilly Arcade
- The popular key – 103 Colmore Row
- The Purple Lavender
- The reopening of the Birmingham Museum and Art gallery
- The Ringway Centre and the legacy of brutalist Birmingham
- The streets of Brighton rock
- The Streets of Warwick
- The Swing at Swinmoor
- The views and memories of Lowfield House, Little Langdale
- The virtual world of repetitive beats
- The Weeklies
- The Welcombe Hills
- The West Country
- This is Quinpool Road — Exploring Street Art in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Those pastel coloured beach huts on the Essex Coast
- Three keys in Birmingham
- Through the roof at Coughton Court – an IgersbirminghamUK Instameet
- Time to Reflect with my Key
- Top 4 in 2022
- Top 4 in 2023
- Top 4 in 2024
- Top 4 Photographs of 2025-A Year in Photography
- Top of the Rotunda
- Tractor, Tractor, my kingdom for a tractor!
- Transport Museum Wythall – IgersbirminghamUK
- Treacle Market
- Twist and Turn receives honourable mention in MonoVisions 2024
- Tysoe Windmill
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- Walk on By
- Walking along the North Stratford Canal
- Walking in Birmingham
- Walking in Digbeth
- Walking in St Paul’s Square and down Livery Street
- Walking in the hills and discovering Fox Covert
- Walking in the winter wonderland of Solihull
- Walking Regent’s Canal
- Walking the Canals
- Walking the Regent’s Canal – the Shoreditch stretch
- Walking the Regent’s Canal – Queen Mary University of London to the river Thames.
- Walking the Regent’s Canal – Queen Mary University of London to Victoria Park
- Walking to the University
- Wandering Through London’s Christmas Lights: A Night of Colour, Chaos and Calm
- Watchful Mary
- Watching and photographing a starling murmuration
- Watching the sun go down by Bracebridge pool, Sutton Park
- Water droplet photography
- Watergate Bay – The Beach
- We had a street party
- We love Wobbly
- Weather Watchers
- Week of the Beast
- Weekend in Loch Lomond
- Westside BID Calendar winner 2023
- Wheels of London
- When Twelve Snowmen Took Charge of Baddesley Clinton
- Where the signs outnumber the trees – HS2 progress
- Whistling a Birmingham success
- Window seat please – photographing volcanoes and the northern lights
- Wings and Wheels
- Winner – BCN 250
- Winner of the first Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition
- Winter arrives
- Winter at Clowes Wood
- Winter Wonderland in Knowle
- Winterbourne House
- Winterbourne House and Gardens IgersbirminghamUK Instameet
- Winterbourne reopens
- Winterbourne revisited
- Wood walking
- Word on the Water