around Agden reservoir

'...there is possibly a little more need than usual for exorcism. '

Nicola Pitchford@npitchford.bsky.social · 2d ago

“All writers are making maps of the cicatrix of their lives, disturbing the ghost soil, unearthing artefacts of unreliable memory. Being an English child of the 1970s, there is possibly a little more need than usual for exorcism. For there’s no getting away from the fact it was a bloody weird time.”

Last Light

The current spate of wildfires across the country and the tinder-dry state of Dartmoor has made me reflect on some of the incidents I attended. No exaggeration to say that some wildfires were amongst the most physically draining and dangerous jobs I turned out to in the 7 years I was on the run...

early this Sunday morning

This is my favourite duck in the whole world. I'm just going to leave that there...

Barn swallows and house martins feasting upon the river Derwent; from this morning.

First time photographing a kingfisher on my break in the Peak District. Pretty chuffed to see one.

from this morning

over the last week

swallows in the barley

from yesterdays wander

brutal optimism

Yorkshire Sculpture Park this morning. A couple of Damien Hirst's and Sean Henry's Seated Figure.

KIPTAR 105/2

Dippers, Grey Wagtails and Pipits on my walk this morning.

Stillness - half frame photograph printed onto mulberry paper. The photograph was made with the Pentax 17 and Ilford HP5 developed with DD-X #believeinfilm #photography

#contemporaryart #filmphotography #pinhole #longexposure #multipleexposure #scape #6x12 #panorama

lomo fisheye ii

. I am far too invested in the wellbeing of this robin and chicks. Today it is 40˚F and raining and I must have peered out at the nest 50 times already! (photo from yesterday) #EastCoastKin #wildlife #birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #Montana

📷 Under the spell of the long summer twilight... (Ode to Pictorialism) #pictorialism