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Chapter 05

Here for a While

Here for a While is Oxford at the end of 2025, from the first punts of the morning to the last lit window at night. Less the colleges than the people going past them. Someone mowing a lawn nobody is allowed to walk on. A man waiting by a taxi. A woman and her dog. A pigeon with somewhere to be. None of them are here for long, and neither are the photographs, really. They are just what was left after noticing.

Morning

The High Street with Queen's College domes and a bus heading for Cowley Road — 01

Moored punts on the Cherwell in the morning — 02

An elderly couple walking past college buildings — 03

The University Church spire seen from a side street — 04

A man passing a red phone box — 05

A groundsman mowing a college lawn — 06

A woman leaning against a sunlit college wall — 07

Day in town

A student with a grey rucksack against old stone — 08

A woman walking out of a carved college gateway — 09

A woman in a black hat by college railings — 10

A pigeon on the pavement — 11

A man in a long coat beside a yellow taxi — 12

A woman with blonde hair in low winter sun — 13

A man reading at a table outside a pub window — 14

The King's Arms with people outside — 15

Shadows of two people on a stone wall — 16

A woman with a golden retriever — 17

Late light

People on a park bench under autumn trees — 18

Two people sitting under a tree against the light — 19

Deer grazing under oak trees — 20

A man walking through autumn trees — 21

A punt on the river among autumn trees — 22

A figure in woodland with low sun through the trees — 23

A couple walking away down an autumn path — 24

Birds crossing a grey sky — 25

The Radcliffe Camera at dusk — 26

Radcliffe Square and the Bodleian at dusk — 27

Night

A man in a scarf standing in a narrow street — 28

A figure inside a steamed-up lit cafe window — 29

A cyclist on a lamplit street at night — 30

Two figures walking under street lamps — 31

A silhouette in a lit arched window — 32

A woman looking into a lit restaurant window — 33

A person at a lit shop window at night — 34

A man eating on a doorstep — 35