by Steve Tanham
There’s a tiny road that leads out of our village of Sedgwick, to cross the deep gorge of the often thundering River Kent. A quarter of a mile later it connects with the busy A590 that links the M6 motorway with the heart of The Lake District. There is usually one day, often in January, when a severe winter frost turns the leafless and … Read More A Bridge of Frost
by Steve Tanham
Deep winter comes to the Lakes. Our tiny village of Sedgwick is perilous – already lacking in footways, people are strapping spiked soles onto their shoes in order to get around, But the beauty remains … is even enhanced by the glittering danger. And tomorrow is expected to be even colder… -🔷- ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 … Read More An icy walk in Lakeland
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by Steve Tanham
It’s there quite clearly in the trunk. A lion, claws embedded firmly in the old wood to support its descending weight. Head down, eyes fixed on, well, you! Microseconds from reaching the ground, where it will be lord of life and death. I’ve passed here many times, but never seen it before. That’s the joy of winter light. It’s a whole n’other world out … Read More A Lion in Winter
by Steve Tanham
When the final colours of autumn fade, there comes a time when a photographer’s attention changes to shape… The fractal structures that propelled the fluids of life from Mother Earth to leaf, flower and fruit are revealed in near-monochrome starkness. Other ‘forms’, some man-made, emphasise this distinction and evolution. Their shapes invite a ‘softening’ technique when taking this kind of photograph. This suggests an … Read More Beyond the lens…
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by Steve Tanham
There’s always a day when you know you are walking among the ‘last of the leaves’. Following the River Kent along the last mile of its length is a good way to experience the ´final fading’ of the Autumn landscape. The steep banks of the river are covered in a variety of old trees – some of them dating back over a hundred years. … Read More Last Leaves
by Steve Tanham
Mid-afternoon; a phone call from one of the best friends from my college days saying that her journey to our twice a year reunion had gone better than expected and that she would be a hour early. Would we be in or should she park up somewhere and join us, later? Tess the collie was overdue a decent walk. A man in a big … Read More Three gifts from the sunset
by Steve Tanham
A simple (self) assignment… I was on my way to a haircut in Kendal and – leaving the main car park – I emerged into ‘bright soft sunshine’. It’s a feeling that only happens a few times each year and it has a definite ‘sweet’ quality to it. I decided to try to capture the light (in all senses of the word) mood in … Read More Summer comes to Kendal
by Steve Tanham
A glorious sunset glimpsed from the motorway. Would we be able to get ‘there’ before it faded? The most reliable ‘there’ is the halfway point to Arnside, via the A6 and hope… And there, at Sandside, we got the last of the sunset, mottled in red-golds and lilacs. And stood and stared. ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 … Read More Standing and staring
by Steve Tanham
As each day passes, it’s difficult to fight the sense of ‘looks like we’re not getting a summer, this year’. There is certainly beauty in the profusion of green. The plants are getting what they need, but we humans thrive on the gold that sometimes falls from our skies. Come summer … late summer … golden autumn; whatever it takes, and save us!! ———————————- … Read More Profusion and dark skies
by Steve Tanham
Waterhead to Ambleside; it’s a walk we do often. We park the car near the ferry point in Waterhead and do the thirty-minute stroll into the town. Leaving Waterhead, we hug the coast of Lake Windermere by cutting through Borran’s Park – a place unseen by many visitors, who hike by on the road, not realising that one of the best views of Windermere … Read More Sunday’s sojourn – Edges of Ambleside
by Steve Tanham
(📩 300 words, photo and prose. A five minute read) Our evening dog walk takes about forty minutes – a bit longer at the moment as we are looking after a friend’s blind Labrador, Rosie, and, while she’s fully mobile, she has to take things slowly and use her poor nose as eyes… We leave the house through the back gate, then pick up … Read More The place of the sunsets
by Steve Tanham
(📩 740 words, a ten-minute read) To enter a process of mystical training is often considered an intellectual experience, with limited connection to everyday experience. In practice, the opposite is true. The everyday experience is the heart of the matter. There is no finer example of this than the admonition, given early, to ‘experience, fully, what is happening to you, now.’ At first hearing, … Read More The touch of experience (1)
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