利大英
@gblee.bsky.social
Writer and photographer. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
Sanderling (Calidris alba) – Wind 'em up, and let 'em go. Here's a cute little sanderling during the fall migration a few years back. www.instagram.com/ryan.bebej.photography 🪶 #birds #birding #birdoftheday #wildlifephotography
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) moulting in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on August 26, 2026 Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Sep... #birds #moulting #crosstimbersEcoregion #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
#China #photography #1980s #B&W When I was in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were places I visited where I was the first foreigner local people had seen. My camera was focussed on a person but it was their gaze that came first, and mine its return. www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
#China #photography #1980s #Buddhism As promised here's a second series of photographs of Buddhist cave art: photographs of Buddhist statuary from Longmen which was close to Luoyang which became the capital of the Northern Wei (386–535) state. www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
Here's my blogpost about Soul music, not just Motown, but Northern Soul that developed in the 1960s and '70s in the North and the Midlands of England. It coincided with a class divide. Some links to the music on Youtube, so you can listen to the songs if you wish. www.gregorylee.net/what-i-came-...
Stepping off the Soul Train: From Liverpool to London
In the early 1970s, the pre-punk era in Liverpool music wasn't all late Beatles, David Essex and Marc Bolan. There was also Soul. Motown of course, but also and mainly Northern Soul which it is...
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#photography #b&w #China Today, I came across this photograph of children reading in the street. I took it in 1980 in Changsha, China. It reminded of yesterday's news item on failing standards of children's literacy & numeracy in OECD countries. ©@gblee.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
‘Woman sitting on wall.' Tangkou, Huangshan, Anhui. 安徽省黄山市汤口镇. July 1980. #China #photography Photography by ©Gregory B Lee See more at www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #China Post-mao China 1979-1983 slideshow 📷© Gregory B Lee www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
#photography #monochrome #Liverpool I was around 13 when I started developing my own films & making contact prints; I had no enlarger. When I was about 14 an art college student let me use his. Here's one of the first photographs I shot, developed and printed: A UK£ pre-decimalisation shopfront.
#streetphotography #photography #monochrome I've uploaded 2 complementary slideshows of BW street photography to my People and Places Photography Archive : "A village in the Luberon on a winter's eve" AND "On the street in Nice". www.gregorylee.net/people-and-places-photography-archive.html
People and Places Photography Archive
Regularly updated archive of photographs I've taken over the years. All photographs © Gregory B. Lee
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#photography #streetphotography A couple of these are good, but, taken overall, I just wonder is this the best street photography has to offer? What do you think? LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘My way to escape reality’: LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures
From pre-dawn Vietnam to cats scaling walls, the scenes in these prize-winning photographs show how the everyday can become mysterious, poetic and surreal
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