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"Present of Future End"
"Eager! Eager skins that light the fires.
Artists! Artists hungry for the match.
Drinking! Drinking fossils of the liars.
Figments! Figments where the bugbears at."
Or Catstye Cam on Ordnance Survey Maps. Wainwright is often at odds with the Ordnance Survey about spelling of Lakeland names, but Alfred knew best. His biggest bugbear was that Blencathra was called Saddleback by the OS.
This photograph was taken from Helvellyn in 2010, but in fact we did not go up Catstycam that day. We turned right at the fork in the path on the far left of this photograph, having dropped off Helvellyn via Swirral Edge. I actually climbed Catstycam on some unknown date in the summer of 1973, as described in the Helvellyn script in this album. Catstycam is the pyramidal peak on the left of the picture. The lake nearest the camera is Red Tarn, and the ribbon in the middle distance is Ullswater. It was my fourth Wainwright. I have not set foot upon its summit since. The bulk which obscures the rest of Ullswater is Birkhouse Moor.
Just behind the valve house is The Plume of Feathers. I nearly stopped for a pint outside in the sun but the idea was so appealing I might have spent the afternoon there. Despite the lousy parking this is a popular pub where you can eat decent food outside with the stream trickling by. As usual the only bugbear is the ever present cars in a tiny dead end road but there is no car park.
Zalathar and his Bugbear body guard have been trying to survive in this underground compound for some time. They are more than surprised when they find out Beket, Simone and Henny have broken free from their glass jars.
Taken at an environmental portraiture workshop with David Hilliard at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
A portrait using a 35mm at ƒ/16 in natural light with significant environment, conquering four of my personal bugbears at once.
Comments and critiques always welcome.