Category Archives: Landscape

Dec 05 2012
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Coming into land at Domodedovo

Wednesday 5th December 2012, 4.00pm (day 468)

Quarry, Domodedovo, 5/12/12

So far, Hebden Bridge has avoided any snow, but the same is not true of Russia, as you see here. Still, I suppose that’s how it should be in December.

This is – I think – a quarry, pleasantly lit by the setting sun; but then again it doesn’t really matter what it is. I just like the shape, and the further evidence that we get a whole different perspective on the world from several thousand feet up. A lot of photos on this blog have been taken from planes for that reason – I should count them.

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Nov 27 2012
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Fish farm near Bergen

Tuesday 27th November 2012, 3.20pm (day 460)

Fish farm, 27/11/12

It could be sharper, I know, but give me a break; this was taken from a plane, into the sun, at quite a sharp angle (looking backwards relative to the direction of travel), through a window half covered with little slivers of ice. Those apologies aside… I’m kinda happy with this one. Some shots you just get lucky with.

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Nov 24 2012
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View south from High Rigg

Saturday 24th November 2012, 11.10am (day 457)

View from High Rigg, 24/11/12

High Rigg is a low-altitude but craggy hill a few miles to the east of the town of Keswick. On the left of this shot, in the background, is Helvellyn, the third-highest mountain in England. The dark dimple in the middle is called Great How. The lake is Thirlmere, actually a reservoir. This shot was taken with a dark filter on, then I beefed up the highlights to bring out the sun; but this is more-or-less what it looked like on this November morning. A high haze in the sky allowed one to look straight into the sun, and brought out the last of autumn’s rich colours.

And, oh yeah, I’ve now only got 2 of the 214 Wainwright fells left to climb. I’ll get all the pictures up on my other blog tomorrow morning.

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Nov 22 2012
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At the end of the rainbow

Thursday 22nd November 2012, 8.15am (day 455)

Rainbow, HB, 22/11/12

Can something be both colourful and gloomy at the same time? I think this rainbow manages it. I love the way the houses at the end, lit by the early morning sun, glow like little nuggets of gold at the end of the…. whatever, you know what I’m saying.

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Nov 10 2012
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The Greenup valley

Saturday 10th November 2012, 11.35am (day 443)

Greenup valley, 10/11/12

Is there a word for the one before the one before the last one? Pen-penultimate maybe? If so, today was the pen-penultimate walk I needed to complete the 214 Wainwrights. Numbers 208 (Eagle Crag, a great little climb) and 209 (Sergeant’s Crag) were completed in a day that once again started off OK but got much worse, weather-wise, as time went on. These were about the last shafts of sunlight until near the end of the walk three and a half hours later, illuminating the glacial Greenup valley, as viewed from the lower slopes of Eagle Crag.

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Oct 26 2012
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Cloud lips, or heart

Friday 26th October, 11.15am (UK time) (day 428)

Cloud lips, 26/10/12

It’s Clare’s birthday today so I let her have final choice on today’s photo. This was taken somewhere over the UK as we came into the final half hour of my flight back into Manchester airport this morning. A mouth? Lips? Had I got this a couple of seconds earlier you would have seen an almost perfect heart (as in the card suit shape) below the line. Anyway  – happy birthday dear 🙂 XXX

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Oct 21 2012
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Pennines in mist

Sunday 21st October 2012, 9.15am (day 423)

Pennines in mist, 21/10/12

Flew over to Moscow again today, where I’m working all week. My intention was to post a totally gratuitous photo of Germany, where I changed planes, purely to get an 8th country onto this blog. But though I got some decent shots of Frankfurt today, where it was a lovely sunny day, this shot of the Pennine hills just outside Manchester as we took off this morning has to be the winner. Germany can wait. I’ll be passing back through on Friday so we’ll see if an equally gratuitous shot makes it then. Meantime, the mist.

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Oct 17 2012
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Rain over the Vale of Lorton

Wednesday 17th October 2012, 12 noon (day 419)

Rain over Lorton, 17/10/12

Was almost obliged to go on a walk today, if I still intended to finish my project by the time I go away next year (in case you weren’t aware of this one, see my other ‘214 Wainwrights’ blog). It was tougher than expected today, partly because the forecast let me down – promising decent weather after noon, this was the reality; the last blue sky I saw all day.

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Oct 14 2012
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Mist on the hill

Sunday 14th October 2012, 8.30am (day 416)

Mist on the hill, 14/10/12

A somewhat boring day – had to work, for the third Sunday in a row – but a beautiful one, particularly in the morning. Hard to capture the combination of blue skies, a sharp chill in the air and mist clinging to the sides of the valley first thing, but this is my best shot.

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Sep 22 2012
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Sunrise after take-off

Saturday 22nd September 2012, 7.25am (day 394)

Domodedovo sunrise, 22/9/12

There are only so many things you can capture on camera when you spend most of the day on a plane. I know I have done the theme – the picture taken just after take-off from Domodedovo – before, but what the hell, different day, different sunrise, different picture, different beauty.

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