Category Archives: Landscape

Jan 01 2025
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Coniston Old Man, from afar

Wednesday 1st January 2025, 3.00pm (day 4,878)

Coniston Old Man, 1/1/25

As a location, the Lake District has featured 171 times on this blog, so about once every 28.5 days, or roughly every four weeks. But in 2024 the place appeared only three times, the lowest yearly total by some distance. Finishing the commitment to hoik myself twice around the Wainwrights has made an obvious difference. This shot is taken from no nearer than Morecambe, with a very long zoom. Will I be back more in ’25? In all honesty — probably not.

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Jan 01 2025
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Stone coffins and Morecambe Bay

Tuesday 31st December 2024, 10.45am (day 4,877)

Stone coffins, 31/12/24

There was a New Year’s Eve party tonight but none of the pictures taken there really worked, and so let’s end 2024 on what might be an overly morbid note. But I do like the row of old stone-cut graves that sit above Morecambe Bay near St Patrick’s church, Heysham. And the designer of the cover of The Best of Black Sabbath must have liked them too. That photo is better than mine (I’m not even close to getting the horizon straight, and don’t care), but my excuse is that I was stood above them in the most revolting wind and rain; 2024, at least in the UK, really didn’t bow out with great weather.

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Dec 24 2024
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Above Dove Stones reservoir

Monday 23rd December 2024, 10.10am (day 4,869)

Dove Stones hiker, 23/12/24

Well, I didn’t have anything better today, and by the signs of it, neither did he. I hope he enjoyed his bout of exercise as much as I did. (For more details see my other blog.)

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Dec 20 2024
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Stoodley Pike, with birds

Thursday 19th December 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,865)

Stoodley Pike, 19/12/24

The birds are there, you just need to realise that they’re not grit on the lens. A beautiful afternoon to mark my last day of work until 2025; a shame it is not forecast to last.

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Nov 29 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Frosty morning

Thursday 28th November 2024, 8.35am (day 4,844)

Frosty view, 28/11/24

12 of the last 16 shots have been taken in Hebden Bridge, and there are going to be more coming up — by recent standards, an unusually static state of affairs. But when it looks like this in the morning, I don’t really care.

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Nov 19 2024
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November morning (or not)

Tuesday 19th November 2024, 1.00pm (day 4,835)

Nutclough November, 19/11/24

I have marking to do and didn’t really leave the house all day (well, OK, I went to the pub, but it was dark by then). The snow came, and this shot seems to sum up the day well enough.

I entitled this “November morning” before I looked more closely at the time it was taken. But somehow it feels like a morning, so I’m not going to change it.

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Nov 12 2024
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Daily Post, Landscape, Transport

Train at Blea Moor

Monday 11th November 2024, 9.45am (day 4,827)

Train at Blea Moor, 11/11/24

The 09:47 service from Ribblehead (ex Carlisle) to Leeds is more or less on time. This is the Settle-Carlisle railway, one of the country’s finest. In the background, Ingleborough, definitely the best-looking English mountain outside the Lake District — it’s 3,730 days (or 10 years, 2 months and 16 days) since it made its first appearance on here, on my 45th birthday day out (26/8/2014). And as it’s a good place to come for a day out, on the first appearance of sunshine for about two weeks — it was worth coming back.

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Oct 12 2024
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Crossing England

Friday 11th October 2024, 1.20pm (day 4,796)

Walkers above Huddersfield, 11/10/24

The Pennines are, definitely, the vertebrae of Britain (supporting the large, shaggy head that is Scotland). And today I, definitely, walked from one side of them to the other, starting a hike in Greenfield on the west and ending it in Marsden to the east: with the town seen in the background here being Huddersfield. Today, therefore, I definitely crossed England, in watershed terms anyway. The two guys seen here may or may not have done the same.

Can I note, though, that a lot of England’s spine is comprised of peaty, boggy shit. Get it cleaned up, England!

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Oct 03 2024
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View from Broadfield Park, Rochdale

Wednesday 2nd October 2024, 5.30pm (day 4,787)

Broadfield Park view, 2/10/24

It’s been over a month since I categorised a post as ‘Landscape’, which may suggest I’ve not been getting out much, but I did find an excuse to hang out in Rochdale on this pleasant, bright evening. As might be obvious, this is taken with a very long zoom, and I like the way the shot suggests a random collection of objects kind of poking out of various bits of land (note the antenna skulking around at the very back hoping nobody notices it). The tower on the right is not that of a church, but of Rochdale’s magnificent Town Hall. What the red-and-blue arrangement to the left is — you tell me.

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Sep 02 2024
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The chemical plant

Sunday 1st September 2024, 2.50pm (day 4,756)

The area around Low Moor railway station, to the south of Bradford, is the most industrialised part of my local area. There’s plenty of photographic interest to be had within it, whether close-up or from more of a distance, like here. It’s nice that the windsock continues the diagonals of the cable and stairway, but its presence is somewhat ominous — and surely linked to the fact that Low Moor station is the only one I know where there are display boards warning of what to do if the alarms go off and the area needs to be evacuated. But it hasn’t happened…. yet.

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