I deliberately took my film camera with me on a couple of winter walks to Clints Crag as I thought there would be good photo opportunities of the winter trees. These are my favourite shots…
All photos:
my Zenith manual film SLR
I deliberately picked two clear, sunny days (we haven’t had many of those!) and I’ll mainly let the photos do the talking…
Lone Winter Ash
Winter Sycamore
Escarpment Hawthorns
Watch your ankles!
Distant Skiddaw
The sheep atop the escarpment bidding me farewell (glad to get rid of me!)
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Some really nice photos there. The terrain underfoot looks like proper ankle breaking territory though!
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Each time I go I fall down yet more grikes! It’s really bad to tell where they are. I walk very carefully up there now. Having said that, it’s a really lovely hill but I can’t get to it at the moment as, due to all this terrible weather, all the approach routes are literally swimming in liquid mud! 😦
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You’re a dab hand at photographing tress, Carol. They’re all gorgeous. What a great idea to take your camera out specifically to capture them in their winter landscapes. As for the craggy ground, you really would have to watch your step across those areas. Those fissures remind me of the grykes on Great Orme, although ours aren’t covered in green like yours; they’re mainly exposed limestone with plants growing in between. The light falling on them in your photos is stunning, and it really highlights the dramatic cracks in the land. A collection of winter shots to be proud of! 🙂
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We had a lot of bare grikes in Yorkshire (the Dales are famous for limestone pavement) but it’s the fact that these are so mossy and covered in vegetation that causes problems – you think you’re about to step onto solid rock and sometimes it isn’t!
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Gosh, I can see now where the confusion would arise. At least on Great Orme you know exactly what you’re stepping on. It’s like a load of elongated giant stepping stones.
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I must have been on Great Orme when I was a child as my parents took us to Wales walking a lot. I can’t really remember it though…
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Ah, shame. Great Orme is one of our favourite places. Stunning views, great walking, amazing wildlife (seals, choughs, stoats, ravens, goats etc) and crammed with geology and history. We’re constantly impressed that this vast land mass sticking out into the sea, where in many spots you feel as though you’re in the middle of nowhere, is actually in Llandudno! We can even see Nathan’s school from the top. I often drop him off in the morning then drive up onto the marine road to see the seals basking in their own special cove. A truly amazing place. 🙂
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I love seals! I love watching them as they watch you…
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You’d love it on Great Orme then, we counted 125 of them the other day! 🙂 And their calls are very haunting.
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I don’t remember ever hearing them call – I’d love to though. 125! That’s really great. It always annoyed me when fishing vessels used to shoot them for ‘taking the fish’ – who’s bl00dy fish are they?!
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I hadn’t realised they did that – it’s disgusting. Human arrogance knows no bounds. We don’t deserve this planet if that’s how we treat other animals who have as much right – if not more – to be here than us. It makes me laugh when we feel we have to keep in check species that are apparently getting too numerous and getting out of hand, but by far the worst offender on that front is humans!
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I think one of the worst things about humans is how they think they’re in control of everything on the planet… and then they mismanage it al anyway!
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Absolutely. You hit the nail on the head there, Carol. Hypocrisy and arrogance, that’s what characterises humanity’s attitude to the planet. Personally, the way things are going I reckon we haven’t got much more than a couple of hundred years left to run, then we’ll be joining the dinosaurs as a chapter – or rather an annoying interlude – in the long history of the Earth. We’re just too abusive and destructive to last.
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I’m pretty sure the planet, and the other species, won’t really miss us when we’re gone!
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You’re right about that too. Why would they miss us? It’d be like getting rid of an abusive relative.
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now that made me laugh!
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… oh, and the seal’s call is beautiful – deeply resonant, mournful and haunting. Bless them.
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Cracking set of photos Carol. Bob. BSS.
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Thanks Bob. I hate winter but do like winter trees – so interesting to see their structure properly.
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Could have done with more dry days.
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We certainly could – this week seems to have been even worse!
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Those photos are great communicators. 😁 very nice.
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I love winter trees (hate winter though) – always interesting to see their structure like that.
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Those are absolutely wonderful photos of very interesting trees! I would love a turn at photographing twisty trees like that. Thanks for posting.
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We have quite a lot of gnarly trees on our lower uplands and commons. We don’t tend to have any at all on the mountains though…
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