After the rain

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A holiday-maker on Blackpool's central promenade looks at the clearing sky, from beneath an ornate shelter, after the rain has passed.

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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist (from "Venus and Adonis")

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photograph (c) T. Boughen

The cafe window

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The design of this cafe on the promenade at St Anne's, Lancashire, has a nautical flavour, including porthole-style windows.

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"I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
Steven Wright (1955- ), US comedian, actor and writer

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Cross-bracing

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The damp, dark, dripping forest of iron legs and braces that is the underside of a Victorian pier such as Central Pier, Blackpool, has its attractions. Bold shapes, silhouettes, reflections and interesting light offer photographic opportunities of the minimalist kind.

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"The more exponential the marketing of images is growing, the more fantastically grows the indifference towards the real world. Finally, the real world becomes a useless function, a collection of phantom shapes and ghost events. We are not far from the silhouettes on the walls of the cave of Plato."
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2006), French cultural theorist and philosopher

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Working on "The Big One"

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Three workmen maintaining one of the lower (but still quite elevated) sections of "The Big One", the 213 feet high roller coaster at Blackpool, Lancashire.

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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister

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