WME Flickr Focus: November 2014

The last vestiges of autumn are gradually gone as November becomes December, and with Christmas just around the corner the temperatures tumble in sympathetic chorus with the few remaining leaves. To borrow ever so slightly from Keats, autumn has been both mellow and fruitful where the WME Flickr Photostream has been concerned, so let's assess November's poetical nod to photographic progress...

Buses were definitely my muse for the first part of the month, with various routes and locations prompting me to wax lyrical. Examples are the 23 at Woodgate (WME Birmingham), the 205 at Kingswinford (WME Dudley), the 7 at Lichfield (WME Staffordshire) and another 7 at Atherstone (WME Warwickshire). However, it was WME Shropshire that took laureate honours for bus bonuses, summoning up shots from Ellesmere (the 53), Ludlow (the 702) and Oswestry (Tanat Valley 445).

The second half of the month became an ode to all things 'A' with various additions afoot from that leading letter of the alphabet. WME Shropshire was again prominent with an Albrighton refrain featuring grazing cows and the local library (albeit not in the same picture), while WME Warwickshire advanced upon Atherstone for the old railway station house (now a veterinary surgery) and a car dealership. The All Nations in Madeley got a snippet of stanza on WME Telford, while WME Coventry mustered forth a verse from Allesley Village.

All of this activity leads me to celebrate one notable milestone. When my Fotopic site vanished into the ether back in March 2011, it comprised 2359 images and I've been painstakingly rebuilding towards that number ever since. Many of the original Fotopic images have steadily been reinstated on Flickr, along with a fair sprinkling of pictures that hadn't been seen before, bringing me to my current total of 2363 photographs. It's uncharted territory from this moment on, so where will winter lead us on this venerable journey I wonder? The anthology continues...