By Chris Guy posted on 1 Jan 2018 in Urban, Rural

During this year I started a new job at Modular Digital, became a trustee at FRANK Water and continued with our ongoing house renovation project. Happily I also found time to get out and about to take photographs. These trips were sometimes solo missions, but there were also some great shared expeditions, with G (to the Savernake Forest and Norway), Richard Ford (a shared aesthetic and desire to get out and shoot the ordinary, mundane and otherwise overlooked) and of course the igersbristol crew.

Enjoy the pics and I look forward to more exploration in 2018…

Empty wet urban street at night, car headlights and starburst streetlights, illuminated bus-shelter ad with a man's face, McDonald's sign glowing in the distance.

Early morning in Brislington, Bristol

Empty wet street at dusk in an industrial area, lined with brick workshops and MOT signs, a bare tree and distant hills beneath a bluish sky.

Empty Streets: Albert Road, Bristol

A lone figure in a red hoodie walks along a stone pavement towards Bristol Temple Meads Station in the early morning.

Bristol Temple Meads

Moss-clad beech trees stand in a quiet winter woodland clearing, exposed roots spreading across damp leaf litter and pale grass beneath a canopy of bare branches.

Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

A muddy rural track forks into two paths over a grassy ridge, with tyre marks, a lone sapling and an electricity pylon against an overcast sky.

Paths. Priors Wood, Portbury

Blue-clad industrial unit with 'SELWOOD' sign, four trimmed shrubs in concrete planters along a quiet road beneath a grey, cloudy sky.

Topiary on the Severnside Trading Estate, Avonmouth

Derelict concrete building with graffiti beside a still river, its grid-like facade and a bare tree mirrored in the water, with a small tent pitched on the bank.

The old sorting office at Temple Meads

Steel lattice electricity pylon on concrete piers in a broad estuary, power lines stretching across calm water towards a distant road bridge beneath a cloudy, muted sky.

Aust Severn Powerline Crossing

Soon to be vacant mid‑century three‑storey building on a corner, shuttered ground‑floor shops with 'Kin Yip Don' and 'Dynasty' signs, orange 'Redcliff Quarter' hoardings and empty street.

Dynasty Restaurant, Redcliff

Frosty parkland with Ashton Swing Bridge and ‘A’ Bond Warehouse under a grey, overcast sky.

Ashton Swing Bridge & ‘A’ Bond

Modern brick church with a tall square bell tower and ribbed façade featuring a prominent white cross, set against a bright blue sky and a grassy foreground.

Christ the Servant Church, Stockwood

Two elevated motorway flyovers arch apart over overgrown land, flanked by tall streetlights beneath a pale blue sky.

M5 / M49 Intersection

Bjøvika, Oslo. A modern steel pedestrian bridge crosses a wet plaza surrounded by contemporary glass and patterned buildings beneath a grey, overcast sky.

Bjøvika, Oslo

A group of people stand by a large red corrugated wall; an elderly woman with a cane speaks to a man in a cap, while three others, one with a pram and a red balloon, look on.

Altercation? Bristol Harbourside Festival 2017

A suburban driveway with a vintage red Dodge van and red convertible parked beside a pebble‑dashed house and garage with a white door painted with a red cross.

Suburban. Kingswood, Bristol BS15

Faded blue Porsche parked on a suburban street with brick houses behind, front wheel on a small tow dolly.

Porsche 924, Easton

Urban street corner with pale terraced buildings, a yellow corner shop beneath a red awning reading "Etablert 1890" and a visible "Thorvald Meyers gate" street sign.

Grünerløkka, Oslo

Minimalist white plaza with a rectangular white building, three safety cones by its corner, cranes on the skyline and dark, stormy clouds overhead.

Cones, Oslo Opera House

Empty industrial forecourt with 'NO ENTRY' painted on the road, flanked by two red no-entry signs, a metal barrier, and a brick base beneath a corrugated metal wall.

Sevenside Trading Estate, Avonmouth

High-angle black-and-white photo of a lone pedestrian wearing a hat on wet pavement beside a graffiti-covered wall and a metal-clad building with a fenced, cobbled corner.

Man in a Hat. Bergen, Norway

Black-and-white photo of a white picket fence bordering a grassy field, with trees and hills in the distant background.

White Picket Fence. Balestrand, Norway

Three wooden cottages on a green hillside beneath misty, rugged mountains.

Approaching Myrdal: the view from the train

Weathered wooden outbuilding and concrete garage with a rusting corrugated roof, surrounded by overgrown grass and bare trees under a pale winter sky.

Grand Designs. Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire

Black-and-white stencil street art of DJ Derek painted on a white wooden gate, flanked by a red brick wall and white-painted bricks beneath a pale sky.

DJ Derek by Stewy

Vibrant street mural covers a whole gable: a colourful, stylised meditative figure with floral motifs, bees and geometric accents.

Bergen Streetart

Partly demolished brick building behind blue hoarding, workers on a cherry picker and exposed steel frame, by a quiet street with parked cars and a 'Garden Centre' sign.

Hawkins Street Demolition, Bristol BS2

Corrugated metal warehouse labelled 'Universal Balancing', yellow trim, 'Goods Inwards' shutter, orange shipping container and empty concrete yard under a blue sky.

Universal Balancing. Kingswood

Large heaps of red-brown crushed bricks and rubble piled outdoors under a pale sky, a wire-mesh cage visible at the right edge.

Hawkins Street Demolition, Bristol BS2

Low-rise brick flat blocks in the foreground with a taller purple-accented apartment block behind beneath a clear blue sky.

St Judes, Bristol

Cliftonwood. Foggy street of pastel-coloured terraced houses on a steep slope, with parked cars, a dead-end sign and soft green, blue and yellow facades.

Cliftonwood, Bristol

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