photographs: people, places & things
Fascinating activity on the canal In recent weeks I have watched with quite a keen interest, and if I’m honest a sort of childlike fascination at some very different activity on the Peak Forest canal. The activity I have observed on my regular walks has been the cleaning and dredging of the Peak Forest canal. […]
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Visiting Lyme Park The last time I wrote about visiting Lyme Park was earlier in the year, back in January and you can go back to that post at this link. For our most recent visit, as with other National Trust properties visits currently need to be pre-booked to enable active and safe management […]
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Visiting Dunham Massey It’s hard to imagine visiting the National Trust property at Dunham Massey and coming away disappointed. With it’s magnificent house and fabulous deer park, Dunham Massey really is a wonderful place. The National Trust property is located in the Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, fairly close to the town of Altrincham. […]
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Macro photography I wrote a short post in September about getting to grips with macro photography and then followed that up at the end of the month with a post I called ‘developing my skills‘. Continuing the series This post is the next in the ‘macro series’. On the one hand I am reasonably happy […]
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The Northern Lights. My understanding of the term Aurora Borealis means a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky. After looking at some pictures snapped on a phone from the inside of a car on a typical wet northern night in Blackpool it struck me that the lights I […]
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Walking on the Pennine Way We recently took a walk on part of the Pennine Way and we thought that whilst that way we might as well try to find the site of the B29 Superfortress that crashed on the moors in 1948. The part of Pennine Way we walked is really easy to get […]
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Cheshire walks. Recently we drove out towards the old Cheshire farming village of Goostrey to take a walk along some of the quiet back roads in that area. After parking up and leaving our car fairly close to the Jodrell Bank Observatory we almost immediately came across some decent photo opportunities of the grouse in […]
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New places to walk. We recently walked along a stretch of the Macclesfield canal in Stockport. The stretch that we walked on is only about 25 minutes away by car from where we live, but despite its proximity its a stretch of canal that is unfamiliar to us. Our walk along the Macclesfield canal started […]
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Catching up. I’m just catching up with some blog posts that I had intended to post in the last week or two. Being busy with one or two other things has meant that it’s only now Im getting round to it. Seasonal changes. One of the benefits of taking a regular walk along familiar routes […]
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I wrote a few weeks ago about getting to grips with macro photography and posted a set of pictures which you can see here. It’s certainly tricky to get used to what it takes to get a good macro picture, and making sure the light is right is quite a challenge for me at the […]
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