Category Archives: Landscape

Jun 07 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape

In the fjord

Sunday 3rd June 2012, 11.50am (day 283)

Fjord, 3/6/12

So, finally, I make it into the fjords. This is a narrow passage between the little islands of Paddøy and Hokøyna, north of Bergen on the route up to Mofjorden. I don’t really feel I did the Norwegian landscape justice with any single photo taken today, partly because of a simple lack of good light, and also because for most of the journey we were either on a boat which was moving very quickly (some 30-35 knots), and thus being out on deck was a bracing experience to put it mildly – and focusing was difficult as a result. Or, we were behind glass on the bus home. And how can one choose just one shot to encapsulate this amazing natural architecture. I know, then, that here I do resort to cliché. But what the hell.

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May 21 2012
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On the approach to Scafell Pike summit

Saturday 19th May 2012, 2.15pm (day 268)

Scafell Pike, 19/5/12

Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England, at 3210 feet (978 metres). It is also, as this photograph makes clear, probably the busiest. And the stoniest. A stream of people are here hauling themselves up the final slope from Lingmell col, each with their own specific reasons for being there – though in the end, it’s all the same general reason – “because it’s there”, because it’s the highest point in England. Scafell Pike isn’t the most attractive mountain – nor the most interesting – nor the one with the best view, or the best crags – it’s not, in my opinion, even the hardest one (Pillar and Scafell were harder). But it is the highest: and that’s why all these people were there.

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May 06 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape, Portrait

Me at Angle Tarn, the Lake District

Saturday 5th May 2012, 12.40pm (day 254)

Angle Tarn, 5/5/12

There are definitely worse places to have one’s lunch. (See my other blog for more pictures from today.)

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Apr 29 2012
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Daily Post, Landscape

The rain it raineth every day

Sunday 29th April 2012, 2.25pm (day 248)

More rain, 29/4/12

This was the view this afternoon through the skylight in my home office, at the top of the house. Enough of this bloody rain already. Really.

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Apr 14 2012
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Landscape

Worm casts, Morecambe Bay

Saturday 14th April 2012, 11.00am (day 233)

Worm casts, 14/4/12

From England’s steepest and highest points yesterday to one of its flattest, lowest expanses: and all only a couple of dozen miles away. I like these little worm casts (though I am sure my parents will remind me of some long-buried beach holiday of my toddlerhood in which I was terrified of this kind of thing); a kind of natural sculpture. Or possibly just untidiness.

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Apr 14 2012
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Walker on Hindscarth

Friday 13th April 2012, 1.15pm (day 232)

Walker on Hindscarth, 13/4/12

Taken on the 54th walk of my project to climb all the mountains in the English Lake District. Is it any wonder that it was this which got me fully into photography in the first place. It’s a subject that just gives & gives.

Incidentally, the snow-covered peak second right is Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. The dome to far right is Great Gable. Between where the walker (and photographer) stand and the slope behind is a steep valley holding the motor road of Honister Pass.

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Mar 28 2012
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Silver birches in snow

Wednesday 28th March 2012, 9.55am (day 216)

Silver birches, 28/3/12

There’s got to be billions of these trees in Russia. They line all the roads out of the city of Moscow. They’re everywhere.

I know this is a similar theme to yesterday (and it’s taken from almost exactly the same spot) but I’m not doing much other than work on this visit: so little opportunity to get pictures of much other than the rather drab urban area around the Moscow School (Yugo-Zapadnya Metro station). As you can see, it was a bright, sunny day today, at least in the morning – but it’s still cold.

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Mar 26 2012
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Manchester city centre, from the air

Monday 26th March 2012, 9.45am (day 214)

Manchester city centre, 26/3/12

Whereas yesterday’s picture encompassed a range of, say, about 50mm, I guess this shot covers a range about a million times wider (that is, 50km). This is the view I got this morning as my plane took off from Manchester airport to the south of the city. The prominent building just left of centre is the Deansgate tower (a Hilton hotel on its lower floors, residential apartments above). The main city centre is to the right. The university will be on the edge of where the high buildings start, just to right of centre.

As you can see it was another beautiful day in the North-west of England, 20°C at least – but not in London, where I was flying on this leg (clamped under a foul brown smog when we landed); nor, indeed, in Moscow where I currently reside (-1°C, a few inches of snow, and still thoroughgoingly winter). Ah, what the hell. It’s all the travel experience, innit.

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Mar 08 2012
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The evening sky

Thursday 8th March 2012, 4.55pm (day 196)

Sunset, 8/3/12

Have we had a ‘Hebden Bridge sky’ picture for a while? No, I didn’t think so either.

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Mar 03 2012
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The summit of Barf

Thursday 1st March 2012, 2.00pm (day 189)

Summit of Barf, 1/3/12With no computer at the moment it’s difficult to work properly so I went on a walk, which I enjoyed despite cloudy weather. 160 Lakeland fells done now – 54 to go (see the other blog for details).

Barf was today’s highlight. That really is the name of this mountain, by the way (apparently it is a version of a word that means ‘a low hill’). While on the summit, this couple placed Action Man here on the cairn, to take a photo of it ‘for our grandson’, Nice idea! So I stole it. The idea, that is, not the Action Man.

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