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Chain ferns in the lush laurel forest on La Gomera in the Canary Islands. Each frond is about 4 feet long.
The wonderful thing about forest photography in spring is that the time of day doesn't seem to matter much - the leaves take over. Epping Forest in mid-afternoon.
Misty Rain
A quick stop off yesterday at a wee woodland near Dumfries, with a bit of rain, mist and diffused lighting.
Near Mouswald, Dumfries and Galloway
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Sony FE24-70mm f2.8 GM
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Not a pun for my Flickr friends outside the UK. This is the State Cinema in the Essex town of Grays, UK. Opened in 1938, closed in 1988 and has had various failed attempts to revitalise it since. It currently stands empty and derelict.
A man’s got to have shoes…so do the wife and kiddies.
Just a little piece of local history. My guess is this will be a housing development sooner or later.
East Tilbury, Essex UK⬇️
And here's the shot I initially went there to take. It's what I would call the 'classic' view there, as there's only really one viewpoint from which it can be taken so most shots of it are pretty much the same composition.
I quite like the fact that the lighting is a little different than usual here as it's at the end of the day so the artificial lights had started to come on, and also there are slightly fewer people on the floor by this point. I was happy not having the edges of the frame being clipped by people which is something I strive to achieve wherever possible in these kinds of environments ...
It's breeding time for amphibians in low spring light. Caption: Psst what do you think of the new chap? Not one of us I'd say.
Walking on the beach at Viking Bay in Broadstairs this morning. The colours of the beach huts were a real lift to the spirits on a cold and dismal day.
Blurred vision, dizziness, nausea, confusion. Those were just the early symptoms. There had long been rumours about Old Sykes’ Farm up on the hill. Some said not everything in those tanks was….agricultural. Now it was spreading East in the wind. Sleep tight.
Photowalk along the wild coastal road from Gran Alacant to Santa Pola… #Viltrox 13mm f1.4 and XT5, Kodak Gold recipe
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
You know how it is. The kids need feeding, you're hungry too and you haven't had time to smarten yourself up...
Our garden, Corringham, Essex UK
The bucks put so much effort into their jousting that frequent rests away from it all are essential. This one was lying up very quietly.
Reworking of a shot from a few days ago. Monochrome tonal adjustment in Affinity and 16:9 format. Why wouldn’t you, I mean it’s practically compulsory isn’t it…?
It seems to me that the lone tree roughly in the centre of the picture becomes more prominent in this version and therefore the theme of isolation and solitude is established. Just the way I like it.
My wife said it looks very sinister. Mission accomplished!
And let me here applaud those wonderful photographers who still shoot and process b&w film. True artists.
March 27, 2022
One of the hidden gems of Essex. The Mardyke River runs its lazy course from the South Essex fens out to the River Thames at Purfleet. Here's a delightful little corner of it by the Davy Down Riverside Park.
(SOOC shot, no crop.)
This was a rather impromptu little long exposure taken on my phone from the 2nd floor of New Broadcasting House, looking over the piazza towards All Soul's church.
Rather than use a tripod to stabilise the 1 minute exposure time (using the incredible 'Even Longer' app), I just pressed my phone up against the window with my hand and held it there for a minute! This is the only way of capturing the piazza without lots of people in it as it's always busy ...
I think this is scarlet waxcap but happy to be corrected. Found by my friend amongst dense heather - he said one couldn't miss them - I did.
Gold and purple are the dominant colours of the New Forest heaths at this time in summer, a highlight in the seasonal chnages and a favourite time of year of mine - who says landscape photographers don't like summer! The magenta bell heather is just going over now and the ling heather coming to its best. There were no distant landscapes this morning - just a grey blanket so more intimate scenes were the order of the day.
It’s haunted. If you believe that sort of thing.
Cash’s Well, Martinhole Wood, Langdon Hills Country Park, Essex UK
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Featured in Flickr Explore during April 2021 and on the BBC’s website in May 2021 (Sky at Night gallery ‘Mapping the Milky Way’)
Single exposure taken with an astro modified A7S and Nisi Natural Night filter.
Unfortunately didn't have the right tripod with me so this is a large crop. The early frost had left droplets on the moss heads which with the sunlight converted them to mini lenses contracting the view beyond
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Old Meggison Falls lie on the Kildale estate in North Yorks. They are currently fenced off and allowed to accumulate many fallen trees so the foreground has been taken from another area. I'm guessing the estate owners got fed up with clearing up after visitors. A pity because they are one of the best falls in the area.
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Our lone Epping Forest red deer in a more noble and calmer moment. He has been injured rutting with the fallow bucks but none of that is obvious here. I don't think I realised how close I had got during my stalking.
Another good morning in the woods. I almost stumbled on to these bucks - it looks light in the pic but it was almost dark - well done digital sensor. These two appeared to be sharing a group of females - or rather were both waiting for the right signals. The animal on the right is a pale form and I expect would qualify as leucistic.