Photography
Ice and cold water, textures and colours not often seen in England. After nearly a week of hard frost, approaching -10°C overnight and hardly warmer in the daytimes, Keswick has been colder than Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsular. The soft light, the colour of the ice and the sheen on the surface of the flowing but super-cooled water are all quite strange and took me back to a winters long ago when the water froze in the River Cam in Cambridge or the canals of the Amsterdam Ring.
Galleny Force - Stonethwaite Beck
Langstrath Beck
A study of the power and drama of the falls of the Langstrath Beck where it meets the Stonethwaite Beck, at the top end of Borrowdale.
More photos: Galleny Force - Langstrath Beck Falls - Lake District National Park
South Downs ridge walk between Ditchling Beacon (248m.) and the Jack and Jill windmills at Clayton. The views are big and wide so I’ve printed to very low colour, nearly black and white, to show particularly the patterns which make this linear landscape special.
More photos: Walk to the windmills - South Downs National Park
This photo produced an emotional response when I downloaded it from the camera. I think this is because seeing another plane below us from 38,000 feet is a reassurance in the deeply unnatural experience of flying in a passenger airplane. Most of us suppress our fear of flying but an image like this cuts through conscious logic. I happened to have my DSLR out during the flight so was able to snap the view out of the aircraft window
