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Tag: Fell Foot Park

July 30, 2023 + #Silenti, Consciousness, English Lake District, nature, Photographic techniques, Photography, Places and Prose

Insurgent Thistle

by Steve Tanham

The come by stealth; just when you think the summer landscape is settling down for its slow decline to autumn… Aggressive, spiky green – enough to make you walk several paces to one side. The thistle knows how to make an entrance. But then that beautiful flower emerges; an inonimate shade somewhere between vibrant pink and soothing lilac. A wonderful paradox, reminding us that … Read More Insurgent Thistle

July 9, 2023 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Lake District, landscapes, Photographic techniques, Photography, Seasons of the year

Gold and Grey

by Steve Tanham

I love that moment – when summer sun and dark clouds fight to cover the land below in a fast-moving and alternating patchwork of colour and it’s absence. If there’s gold on the land to bejewel the electric grey of the sky, even better… Here, at Fell Foot Park, on the southern tip of Windermere, the extremes always seem to be marked, both summer … Read More Gold and Grey

June 25, 2023 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, Lake District, landscapes, Photographic techniques, Photography

Where Seagulls Dare

by Steve Tanham

Didn’t know they were there until I was reviewing the photos later – the seagulls. A whole flock of them whirling overhead, back right of shot; unseen but brightly present… Fell Foot Park on the south-eastern tip of Windermere. It’s a National Trust estate with a delightful walk in a figure of eight that takes you away from the final basin of the lake … Read More Where Seagulls Dare