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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
Taken recently, these photos of Maude’s Meadow, in Kendal, may well show the ‘last gasp’ of that beautiful week of golden weather we had – most certainly the best of the summer – here in Cumbria. Maude’s Meadow is tucked away at the start of the Windermere road out of the town. If you didn’t know it was there, you’d never stumble across it. … Read More Last Gasp…
by Steve Tanham
The sun was starting to set when we took the collie for her final walk; along the old canal path … … and down across the fields to emerge at the old bridge over the River Kent. There are certain evenings when the mellowness of the water on limestone is exquisite. Worth taking a few detailed shots to show it off. Still filled with … Read More Summer evening in the gorge
by Steve Tanham
Their summer is so brief but the beauty says otherwise… ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states … Read More Gentle focus, gold stars
by Steve Tanham
It doesn’t happen often in these parts. You have to make the best of what I call the ‘sultry light’ when it does… The rich greens and golds take on a different hue… more ‘earthy’, a bit like a child’s fairy story. Even the River Kent feels subdued; as though it would rather pose for photos than thunder through the Sedgwick Gorge. ©Stephen Tanham … Read More Hot, sultry river
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
Sometimes you’re just there at the right place, at the right time… … and nature does the rest. A brief encapsulation of June, here in The Lakes. And a rare moment of morning sun. >>>>>>>>>^ ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is … Read More Perfection
by Steve Tanham
I’m having a conversation with a lizard. Nothing to be alarmed about, the lizard is only in my head – quite literally, in fact. As Homo Sapiens developed over the long course of our evolution, the nature and function of the brain changed with us. At the top of our spine resides the first proper brain we possessed, named the Limbic. It is a … Read More Conversations with a Lizard
by Steve Tanham
The strange object – bottom right in the photo – is the top of our folded sun parasol which lives next to our patio table, outside the house. The ‘shades of lilac’ object in the background began its life as one of the biggest explosions the Earth would have ever seen… And its effects took approximately three days to reach the sky over our … Read More Aurora
by Steve Tanham
February has few attractions, other than it gets us to March, the prospect of Easter, and a definite change in the light. But, here on Lake Windermere, February does produce some wonderful morning mists… Boats slide gracefully into view, with a mystery and elegance that no digital effect can produce. There is also a quality of silence… like no other season. As though everything … Read More The soft mists of Windermere
by Steve Tanham
Stark, naked, the long cold night of winter Draws my will to live in shapes Whose beauty lies in number, Unseen to hands that touch My rough and dusty bark… ———- The limit of life is my companion As pale sun begins to feed Across the stellar miles And seeks – within the rough And blackened frame – The tiny hiss of sap. ———- … Read More Long naked division
Sun in Gemini 
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