1/7 Our @WaterstonesBD1 in Bradford. Thanks to @janeskuds for giving me access to the top floor which was closed to the public. She knew who I was when I mentioned my username. I felt like a celebrity😂
Please take your time to go through them all. Plus a video at the end. 😁
2/7 @anitathetweeter posted photos of it yesterday mentioning how beautiful Waterstones in Bradford is. I've always loved this building. I could live here.
(Watch the video at the end).
3/7 Gorgeous light coming through the beautiful windows.
4/7 The coffee shop on the top floor, you can see the gorgeous view you get outside.
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6/7 This is the exterior of Waterstones. The building on the right.
And books my our local writers @aadhand@sairish_hussain@SaimaMir and our photographer friend @suggy67
Btw Simon...I bought your book. 😁
Scroll down for the video of the building.
1/10 I'm not the type of person to pour my heart out on social media but I'm about to today.
I've battled anxiety in my life but because of some wonderful people around me in real life I've always managed to handle it well. Then lockdown happened last year and I started to find..
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myself falling back into a little depression. I distracted myself with Twitter, it was just browsing at first and then came across the photography community here. The first photographer I followed was @MarcDavenant, I ended up messaging him. I told him how I didn't feel..
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confident about showing my photography on here. He messaged back very quickly with such encouragement and positive words and told me to tag him every time that I upload something. So I picked up my camera again last May and started walking around Bradford taking photos...
2 days ago I was verbally abused by a group 3 men in the city centre, asking me in a very aggressive manner why I was taking photos, when I explained I'm a street photographer it wasn't good enough for them, one of them responded in an angry tone telling me that I should...
go somewhere else and do it, I calmly continued explaining my position but all I got was anger from the front, especially from one of them, according to him we photographers and online users are the worst people the world has ever seen.
I guess I got a little bit...
scared, but was more upset than anything else. I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was a woman alone with a camera taking photos of streets, and I don't feel I I deserved to be confronted like that by 3 very much older men. Not long after, I decided to get myself home...