In recent years it’s become so important to acknowledge this day in the calendar. I nearly missed it! Now living so rural it’s easy for things like this to slip through the mind that is currently occupied looking for signs of the onset of spring!
But once again! In recognition of the women that shape our lives. Stay fierce! For the good of us all :) and help encourage all of those businesses and organisations that promote this thinking as a way of operation :)
#internationalwomensday
There is something phenomenally intuitive about the numerical perfection of the Fibonacci sequence :) it’s almost insane that a numerical sequence is a rule in aesthetics.
Ferns like many other of natures most endearing sights follow this sequence. Though the composition of this image does not, I still love it for showing bright young ferns in their spring glory. And though it wasn’t shot very recently, spring here in the Lake District is well on the way and hell it will be welcome when it arrives :)
#fibonacci #goldenrule #aesthetic #nature #fibonaccisequence
Those pikes we all love so much! At dawn this morning and four very different shots sliding into the abstract :) does anyone prefer the more abstract versions or does everyone like the simple landscapes?
Happy Xmas btw :)
#lakedistrict #langdale #sunrise #dawn #cumbria
A winter solstice collection of images I feel are remarkable for their light! Anyone care to pick a favourite? Looking forward to the longer days and the ability to do more in the evenings! Oh and some cold wouldn’t be a bad thing 🥶
#lakedistrict #lakedistrictnationalpark #norway #lofoten #cloudporn
On approaching the darkest day and the opening of the new year it’s nice to look back on the contrasts of autumn :)
#woodland #forest #arb #silva #arblife #cumbria #lakedistrict #lakedistrictnationalpark #trees #treeoflife #treestagram #treesforlife #autumn #autumnmood
This valley! It just gets better and better the more I work and explore here. The mosses in the valley bottom, the temperate rainforest oakwoods and their catalogue of amazing trees to the high fellside peatland. Just amazing :)
This year was a season of fire 🍂 in the trees and fells! It blows my mind in years like this how this green temperate landscape turns. When the chloroplasts perish the remaining photosynthetic pigments persist just that little bit longer :)
#woodland #forest #arb #silva #arblife #cumbria #lakedistrict #lakedistrictnationalpark #trees #treeoflife #treestagram #treesforlife #autumn #autumnmood
Congratulations New York and America for that first success so desperately needed in this absurd period of human history. Thank you for hope 🙏🏼
Fractured landscape. Bright light highlights the beauty between shadows :) Glowing larch mixed into the spruce forest. Not a woodland type I usually appreciate but that light is outstanding! Duddon. #woodland #forest #arb #silva #arblife #cumbria #lakedistrict #lakedistrictnationalpark #trees #treeoflife #treestagram #treesforlife #autumn #autumnmood
Autumn light in the Norwegian Arctic. It always feels to me that there is something pretty special about high latitude sunlight. I’m not sure if there is something tangible to that feeling or whether my mind is just mystified by the landscape. Either way I invariably walk away with an image that somehow stores a memory of that feeling.
I have friends that look out of this view from the kitchen and front room window! Lucky buggers 😂
#arctic #arcticlight #arcticcircle #norway #naturallandscape #ersfjord #ersfjordbotn #ersfjordtraversen #naturallandscapes #lofoten #sunset #throwback #troms #tromsø #senja #nordland #canon #canonuk
Golden glitter and twisted stems of stunted Arctic birch woodland!
It’s difficult to explain quite how special this landscape feels and almost as hard to photograph it in a way that does it justice. This boggy valley end with its short winding river fed by glacial recession has never been farmed or grazed by anything other than the few wild reindeer here. Because of its relative ‘unusability’, if that is a word, it hasn’t been bothered by humans. The moss beds glow red and though I was a bit late in the year I’m certain they’re inhabited by sundews and butterworts. Perhaps even the Arctic dwarf butterwort Pinguicula villosa. The birch and rowan here in the north facing combe were beginning to turn a little earlier than on other slopes and locations. Perhaps indicating a lower temperature below the glacier and certainly shorter days of light, both of which prompt the autumnal change :)
#arctic #arcticlight #arcticcircle #norway #naturallandscape #naturallandscapes #lofoten #sunset #throwback #troms #tromsø #senja #nordland #kvaløya #storeblåmann #plantlife #plantlife🌱 #abstract #abstractinnature #autumn #arcticautumn #høst #høstifjellet #høstinord #høstiskogen
Just a short walk from the road while checking the route up for Store Blåmann I came across a large patch of bog asphodel. In summer their yellow flowers turn huge areas of wet landscape from a drab brown to a lively flaxen hue. In autumn when the flower fades that colour flares to orange. It never fails to prompt excitement when these fantastic bright colours in native plants and trees arrive for autumn. The same with a huge beech in bright colours, a golden aspen or birch, rowan in the north turn to a beautiful range of colour from green to red, the clumps of grass bjørn skjegg (bears beard) do the same. The leaves on these plants had only just begun to turn so while the tips are orange the bottom part of the plant it’s still green. It gives an impression of a rocket-like flare, an ignition spark for the fire of colour soon to arrive :)
Back in the north and back finding inspiration in nature to capture images that feel satisfying. Feels like a long time!
#arctic #arcticlight #arcticcircle #norway #naturallandscape #naturallandscapes #lofoten #sunset #throwback #troms #tromsø #senja #nordland #kvaløya #storeblåmann #plantlife #plantlife🌱 #abstract #abstractinnature
Ahhh I miss this peace, this light, this landscape, this country 🇳🇴 I will be back soon :)
Looking forward to finding eagles and otters on the coast and open unending mountain views from the fell tops :)
#arctic #arcticlight #arcticcircle #norway #naturallandscape #naturallandscapes #lofoten #sunset #throwback #troms #tromsø #senja #nordland #lofoten #lofotenislands
Reminiscing on high Arctic landscapes after reading through old books of adventure and exploration this last week or so :) Most likely prompted by the current endeavour of @ellainthearctic as she sets off on her Arctic circumnavigation on Yeva! An ambitious and enviable undertaking that will hopefully see the first solo navigation of both the northwest and northeast passages! I’m thrilled to follow this from my comfortable little home! And excited to see what she sees as she travels :)
The raw, bleak splendour of these locations is burned into the soul of any adventurous mind who has had the privilege to sail there! Of course it’s fun from home to explore beyond the aesthetic and into the geology and history. Arctic and Antarctic exploration has a harrowing narrative through its ages and if you haven’t read anything of it you should! Like the histories of the great first ascents, they are addictive to the curious mind :)
#arctic #higharctic #svalbard #spitsbergen #explore #explorenorth #exploremore #exploration #landscape #landscapeart #naturallandscapeawards
