Category Archives: Wild

Physicality and art

Saturday, May 25, 2013

A good day’s walk makes you feel like your heart has overflowed, that it cannot be contained by the physical confines of the body. It spills out into the trees and hills, it is carried in the wind, winds its way through the air-blown grass like a serpent, runs at your heels like a happy [...]

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Bird tracks with holly

Sunday, April 21, 2013

It has been a slow and somewhat barren winter for me photographically. The snow which buried the early flowers in these parts was bleak but beautiful with its shades and textures. Paper negatives frequently handle subtle textures with difficulty but I was pleased with this quick (and very cold) experiment with my newest wooden camera. [...]

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Ennerdale

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The announcement that Cumbria council has rejected plans for a massive nuclear waste dump at Ennerdale in the Lake District brought to mind a week I spent there last summer. What wonderful news to know that Wordsworth’s “still, sad music of humanity” will still be audible where humans meet the melancholy beauty of the wild.

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Four days in the hills – journey within a journey

Saturday, September 1, 2012

As I stepped through the boulders I began to wonder how much I actually see and feel of the landscape as I cross it. We hear great stories of bold treks across continents and jungles but very little of smaller more modest walks. Twinges in my knees had already planted the seed of a question [...]

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Four days in the hills – unity and beauty, life and death

Friday, June 22, 2012

I am not a great believer in destiny. Synchronicity, however, I view quite differently. I set off for the Lakes with an ambitious route plan, a number of photographic ideas to explore and a rather conquering vision of what the journey would accomplish for me. Within minutes of boarding the train the careful plans started [...]

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Four days in the hills

Friday, June 8, 2012

I have enjoyed so many inspirations and experiences, some bordering on the life-changing, in just a few days in the wilderness that I find myself, several days after my return, still in a whirl of thoughts and emotions, trying to formulate them in my mind (difficult) and write them down in intelligible form (much harder). [...]

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Fox’s cove

Monday, October 3, 2011

Earlier this year I spent a week at the coast, the Welsh west coast which with each visit feels more like home. One warm, sunny evening I packed a sleeping bag and a stove and headed for a remote, inaccessible beach to spend the night alone under the starry Spring sky. It was necessary to [...]

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Grey Wethers, solid granite

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Solid, solid rock ancient temple wrapped in the fleetness of the wind serenaded by the hiss and sigh of the grass.

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Stream, skull, sky

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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East Dart River, rising waters

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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