Morning light

There is a stained glass window in our dining room that provides us with moments of magical light at breakfast time.

Malina in colour

Thunderstorm

 

Storm over Dolina Bedkowska, Poland

2x 60 s at F/5.6, ISO 100, focal length: 28mm, 9/08/2013, Dolina Będkowska Photographed with Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 17-55 f/2.8, handheld

No horizon

On a hot summer day the atmospheric haze and approaching storm made the horizon disappear, the land blended with the sky. To explore the realm of the almost featureless and minimal I climbed to the top of Slęża, a lonely mountain with excellent panoramic possibilities (my favourite time to go is the evening when everyone else is going down...). I was also hoping to capture the approaching storm but it came too late. Instead I rescued a young couple who went down the mountain to the wrong side, and being faced with the approaching storm and darkness were more than happy to accept my offer to drive them to their car.

Fire in the Sand

Strafish stranded at Sutton-at-Sea, UK

Sculpture Park #2

This Sculpture Park is much much older and has many branches throughout the world...

Rock formations along southern edge of Kinder Scout in Peak District

Plait, Kinder Scout

Edale, Peak District, Derbyshire, UK

This is the western end of Vale of Edale, where river Noe starts. This was the last bit of the circular walk over Kinder Scout I took with my wife. Oh, it was so good to hike almost non stop for 6 hours. The view above looks idyllic but it is not the full picture.
The plateau of Kinder Scout is losing its delicate biological balance and erosion strips plant cover off the peat bogs. We saw helicopter air-dropping fertilizer and heather seeds as part of an attempt to stop the erosion. Exposed peat oxides, releasing stored carbon into the air, it is also swept off by water exposing bare bedrock. Blanket bogs took thousands of years to develop and most of them are endangered by centuries of overgrazing, pollution, fires. More on the topic here

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Vault, York Minster Chapter House, York, UK