Disorient

Ribblehead. I was here yesterday, a mad man huddled in a mossy hole, in the dark, waiting to take a picture of a train soaked, I took those pictures, in a flurry of wind and driving moorland rain.   I’m tired. Sleep deprived after 3 days of early mornings and late nights… been busy chasing…

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Winter/Spring timetables

The new Northern timetables for the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle railway line and the Leeds-Morecambe railway line through Bentham are now available. Dec 2016 – May 2017. Both feature my work. A snap on the beach at Morecambe’s brilliant Catch The Wind Kite Festival last year, and a walk by the weir on the River Eden in Armathwaite. Nice to share…

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Winter Count

I’m reading this at the moment – ‘Winter Count’ by Barry Lopez. Short stories written with a purity and sparseness of language. And something stunning happens. Every time. – Picture driving by a prairie farm, seeing a man brushing a bare field with a broom. Years later you pass again, and he’s still there, sweeping.…

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river lore

River lore

‘no man ever steps in the same river twice, because it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ ~ Heraclitus. Words that came to me via both musician Kris Drever and writer Katharine Norbury this week. A sweet coincidence.

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A Dale that Died?

  Grisedale I’ve wanted to explore Grisedale for a long time. A three mile long cul-de-sac dale, which sits over the other side of Low Moor ridge at Garsdale Head, beneath Baugh Fell. Garsdale, Sedbergh, Ravenstonedale, and Mallerstang are its closest neighbouring dales. My first attempt to explore had been thwarted by water 

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