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Marie Gardiner

@mariegardiner.bsky.social

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Writer, photographer, author. Documentary producer at Lonely Tower Film & Media. Social history, heritage, culture. linktr.ee/mariegardiner


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Floor buffer in an abandoned factory - March 2024

#Photography #Abandoned

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Remnants of lead mining, chimneys up at Sikehead.
#Photography

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I assume it's something they add to it to kill the algae, but yeah it's quite unsettlingly blue

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Amazing to have spelt pedal, peddle absolutely everywhere. Outstanding.

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Took this back in April but only just got around to editing it. I have a real soft spot for these swan peddle boats in South Marine Park (South Shields), particularly when it's still wintery and they look a little surreal.

#Photography

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Liberty Steel, Aldwarke, Rotherham - June 2024

#Photography

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Available now, 'Tories Out!' A5 print - £10. Taken at Orgreave during the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike (2024) and the battle of Orgreave. Signed, limited edition of 200, each one numbered.

All details here: mariegardiner.co.uk/tories-out/

#Photography

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Available now, 'Tories Out!' A5 print - £10. Taken at Orgreave during the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike (2024) and the battle of Orgreave. Signed, limited edition of 200, each one numbered.

All details here: mariegardiner.co.uk/tories-out/

#Photography

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for sale...

#Photography

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Sometimes I do black and white, too

#Photography #BlackandWhite

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beautiful!

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When the light was perfect... old Sligachan Bridge, Isle of Skye - December 2023.

#Photography #Scotland

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The Apollo Pavillion - Peterlee. April 2024.

#Photography

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I genuinely enjoy it when I take a picture that looks as if it could have been made sixty years ago

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I'm not there now, was last week. Got the train there from Prague to visit the ossuary!

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I've not posted it for a while to give you a break, but my first zine, Transporter, is available for £8 (which includes UK postage) . I've been really touched by the amount of support you've all given it, so thank you for that.

#Teesside

Details ⬇️

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/transporter-...

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Got around to sorting out my camera pictures of Peterlee's Apollo Pavilion (also known as Pasmore Pavilion). Built in 1969 and renovated in 2009. Cracking art work.

#Photography #Architecture

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'Transporter,' my zine featuring the Transporter Bridge, is available now! It's £8 which includes UK postage.

Full details are on my website, including ways pay and contact me.

A5, 20 pages in full colour on 150gsm recycled silk. Cover is 200gsm silk.

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/transporter-...

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Haaa, so, do you guys remember the Tuxedo boats? Well, for a while the Tuxedo Royale was rotting on the Tees and in 2013 I got some pictures of it before it eventually was taken away to be scrapped. Just found them again, so... enjoy.

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Do any of you want to link me to, or tag, good photographers on here and I can have a look at them when I get a moment?

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sorry I just realised it *is* that same chain. I'm not used to here... (sigh)

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Do any of you want to link me to, or tag, good photographers on here and I can have a look at them when I get a moment?

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I agree with that, I think that's its biggest issue. I just said to Paul on this same thread, if Mastodon had nailed the functionality of here (or vice versa, if here had nailed the community of Mastodon) then it would be a no-brainer to prioritise it. Everything is a bit, 'meh'.

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it is yeah, if Mastodon had the functionality of here then it would be a no-brainer. I feel like no site has got it quite right yet. Twitter, for all of its faults, was the most functional and useful of all of these until Musk tanked it. Now, I'd ditch the lot if not for my work.

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I don't interact on Instagram (I just post pictures and have comments for non-followers turned off) so I don't see that. Twitter is toxic (more than ever) but at least I still get to interact with people there in good ways (and block the awful people) but here it's just too quiet for me still

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yeah it's still too quiet here. Though the best reaction to my photography actually comes from Mastodon, which is curious.

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._. I'm not very good at posting on here, I'm afraid I'm still most active on the hell site

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All the fun of the fair... South Shields, October 2023

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The birds have already moved in under the tiles above our bedroom window, as they do every year, and sound like they're building an extension. A welcome reminder that spring isn't far away. Here's a chirpy fella from Cornwall, June 2023.

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I thought he'd be harder to find. Iceland, 2022.

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You know, while I was taking it I didn't even spot him, I was just working hard to keep the camera steady in the gales, but when I opened it to edit I was like, 'oh he's nicely placed!' haha

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Here's to a month of me going feb-roo-arry in my head every time I write an invoice.

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Really like this one, was worth nearly getting blown off my feet(!) View of the Cullins from Elgol (Skye), on an incredibly blustery day with heavy showers off and on.

#Photography #Scotland #Travel

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Shout out to South Shields and its creepy hotdog guy who's eating himself, its stack of chairs, and it's strange but pleasing public art.

#Photography

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Juggling 4 or 5 different things I'm working on at the moment and though my head's spinning a bit, I'm (so far, anyway) managing it all quite well. Haven't done any new photography this month (and unlikely I will, now) so here's an old favourite.

#Photography #FortonServices

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