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Castlerigg
2009-07-28 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 28 Jul 2009
Keywords: Cumbria, England, Lake District, UK, animals, landscape, sheep, stone circles
NIKON D50 70 mm f/11.0 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-06-15 18:34:26
Poultry
2009-07-26 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 26 Jul 2009
on the way home, friday.
Keywords: 2for2, City of London, England, London, Poultry, Tube, UK, Underground, londonist, signs, square mile, streetscape
NIKON D90 48 mm f/9.0 0.004 sec (1/250) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-07-03 18:41:02
Derwent Water
2009-07-24 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 24 Jul 2009
Keywords: Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, UK, boats, lakes, landscape, mountains
NIKON D50 10 mm f/8.0 0.013 sec (1/80) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-06-15 20:41:42
Jaws of Borrowdale
2009-07-18 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 18 Jul 2009
On monday morning, when I was heading off on a leasurly bicycle ride over Honister Pass and back 'round through Newlands. The road winds up alongside the River Derwent in a gorge between Castle Cragg and Grange Fell -- the "Jaws of Borrowdale".
Keywords: Borrowdale, Castle Cragg, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Grange Fell, Jaws of Borrowdale, Lake District, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains, reflections
NIKON D90 50 mm f/10.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 07:49:05
Derwent Water
2009-07-14 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 14 Jul 2009
Keywords: Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, Skiddaw, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains, water
NIKON D90 44 mm f/10.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 06:54:44
Derwent
2009-07-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 Jul 2009
Cycling up Borrowdale last week.
Keywords: Borrowdale, Cumbria, England, Lake District, River Derwent, UK, landscape, reflections, rivers, woodland
NIKON D90 10 mm f/8.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 08:20:58
Derwent Water
2009-07-06 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 06 Jul 2009
sorry, I never tire of posting pictures of derwent water.
Keywords: 123L, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, Skiddaw, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 18 mm f/9.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-18 16:07:00
Derwent Water
2009-07-02 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 02 Jul 2009
More from April.
Keywords: 123N, BRAVO, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, UK, bw, lakes, landscape, lpyc, monochrome, mountains
NIKON D90 24 mm f/18.0 25 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-18 19:39:13
Fishguard Harbour
2009-06-30 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 30 Jun 2009
arrival of the ferry from rosslare.
Keywords: Abergwaun, Atlantic, Fishguard, Fishguard Harbour, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, beaches, boats, landscape, sea
NIKON D90 46 mm f/9.0 0.004 sec (1/250) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-21 11:25:00
Buttermere
2009-06-28 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 28 Jun 2009
Keywords: 2for2, Buttermere, Cumbria, England, Lake District, TWTME, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 26 mm f/10.0 0.01 sec (1/100) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 12:26:36
rocks
2009-06-26 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 26 Jun 2009
did I go too far with the processing again?
I signed this petition -- you might like to do so too: petitions.number10.gov.uk/filmpolice/
Keywords: Burton Bradstock, Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, English Channel, UK, beaches, cliffs, geology, sea
NIKON D90 18 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-11 17:08:55
Abereiddy
2009-06-24 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 24 Jun 2009
Keywords: Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, beaches, landscape, sea, sunset
NIKON D90 10 mm f/9.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-18 19:58:49
Tunnel 228
2009-06-23 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 23 Jun 2009
The Old Vic / Punchdrunk Metropolis in the space beneath Waterloo Station.
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/08/tunnel-288-pu...
Keywords: England, London, Tunnel-228, UK, Waterloo Station, art
NIKON D90 18 mm f/3.5 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:24:26
Derwent Water
2009-06-22 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 22 Jun 2009
in the morning...
Keywords: Borrowdale, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Jaws of Borrowdale, Lake District, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains, reflections
NIKON D90 34 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 07:06:09
Burnham
2009-06-20 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 20 Jun 2009
Something sat in the "is this really worth uploading?" folder for twelve months...
Keywords: Bristol Channel, Burnham, Burnham on Sea, England, Somerset, UK, beaches, lighthouses, reflections, sea
NIKON D50 18 mm 6/1 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-02 18:36:06
Abereiddy
2009-06-18 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 18 Jun 2009
In Pembrokeshire.
Keywords: 123L, Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, beaches, landscape, sea, sunset
NIKON D90 36 mm f/9.0 1/2500 sec ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-18 19:46:04
Tunnel 228
2009-06-17 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 17 Jun 2009
The Old Vic / Punchdrunk Metropolis in the space beneath Waterloo Station.
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/08/tunnel-288-pu...
View On Black
Keywords: England, London, Tunnel-228, UK, Waterloo Station, art
NIKON D90 18 mm f/3.5 0.025 sec (1/40) ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:24:39
Preseli Hills
2009-06-15 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 15 Jun 2009
and Newport Bay in the foreground.
Keywords: Atlantic, Irish Sea, Newport, Newport Bay, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, landscape, sea
NIKON D90 65 mm f/9.0 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-21 13:30:19
Derwent Water
2009-06-13 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 13 Jun 2009
Keywords: Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, UK, lakes, landscape, mountains, silhouettes, sunset
NIKON D90 52 mm f/11.0 0.001 sec (1/1600) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 18:17:24
Honister Pass
2009-06-11 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 11 Jun 2009
This was the side that I cycled down.
In September I will be cycling up mountains in Chile for Computer Aid, but none quite as steep as Honister Pass, which has extensive sections of 1:4 incline. You should help give the gift of the internets to schools, universities, and hospitals in the developing world, here.
Keywords: Cumbria, England, Gatesgarthdale, Honister Pass, Lake District, UK, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 18 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 10:24:00
Abereiddy
2009-06-09 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 09 Jun 2009
on the Pembrokeshire coast...
Keywords: Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, TWTME, UK, Wales, cliffs, landscape, lpyc, sea
NIKON D90 105 mm f/9.0 0.001 sec (1/1600) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-19 14:36:45
Derwent Water
2009-06-07 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 07 Jun 2009
Keywords: 123, 123N, 321, Cumbria, Derwent Wanter, England, Lake District, UK, flowers, lakes, landscape, lpyc, mountains
NIKON D90 18 mm f/10.0 0.013 sec (1/80) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 18:42:03
Newlands valley
2009-06-05 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 05 Jun 2009
more from the lakes. not sure if i got the processing quite right this time?
Keywords: 123M, Catbells, Cumbria, Derwent Fells, England, Lake District, Newlands, UK, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 46 mm f/11.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 12:39:53
Tunnel 228
2009-06-04 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 04 Jun 2009
The Old Vic / Punchdrunk Metropolis in the space beneath Waterloo Station.
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/08/tunnel-288-pu...
Keywords: England, London, Tunnel-228, UK, Waterloo Station, art
NIKON D90 18 mm f/3.5 0.125 sec (1/8) ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:28:42
Hive Beach
2009-06-03 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 03 Jun 2009
I wish I'd composed this differently now -- from further back, with a longer angle. Oh well. Must learn to compose in my head rather than on a computer screen, I guess.
Keywords: 123, Burton Bradstock, Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, English Channel, Golden Cap, Hive Beach, Jurassic Coast, UK, West Dorset, beaches, fishermen, landscape, sea, sunset
NIKON D90 65 mm f/10.0 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-11 18:34:38
fallen angel
2009-06-02 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 02 Jun 2009
exhibition by paul fryer at holy trinity, marylebone, in october.
Keywords: Paul Fryer, art, let there be more light
NIKON D50 10 mm f/4.0 0.167 sec (1/6) ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-10-17 11:59:35
CWS
2009-06-01 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 01 Jun 2009
Old flour mills on Avonmouth Docks in Bristol. These docks were constructed on the Bristol Channel in the early 20th century, when boats grew too large to navigate the three miles of meandering Avon estuary into Bristol Harbour.
Keywords: Avonmouth, Avonmouth Docks, Bristol, CWS, England, UK, derelict, industrial
NIKON D50 55 mm f/8.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-10 17:02:38
gulls!
2009-05-16 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 16 May 2009
at Croyde two years ago...
Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, Bristol Channel, Croyde, Devon, England, North Devon, UK, animals, beaches, birds, sea, seagulls
NIKON D50 200 mm f/8.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-04-01 07:43:28
star stuff
2009-05-14 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 14 May 2009
You need to view it large on black. It's badly stiched, I know...
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On the iPlayer on Thursday I stumbled upon In Search of England's Green and Pleasant Land. I guess it's another one of those BBC formats where somebody draws up a list and then D-list “TV personalities” are drafted in to compete in another demoralising popularity contest which is supposed to somehow reflect something about the list and the items on it. There'd be votes involved, if the BBC were still allowed to do them. You know the type of programme I mean. Perhaps there'll be a book at the end of it.
Anyway, this time the subject is the English regions, and the episode I watched was Stuart Maconie campaigning on behalf of the Lake District. He claimed that “the Victorians” (probably that same species of Victorian that thought piano legs were too sexually suggestive) had to view the landscapes of the Cumbrian Fells via a small circular mirror, because the uncropped vistas of untamable moors would have been just too massive and wild for them to handle.
What a thoroughly appallingly depressing idea: that somebody might willfully throw away the opportunity to truly know and enjoy England's greatest spectacle just because the sight might initially lie outside of their comfort zone. They would prefer to see the fells, pikes, crags, spies, heads, riggs, moors, and jaws with a neat man-made frame around them. We can not conquer them, so we will turn our backs and pretend that they are just a painted picture.
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One of the many quotable facts from the great classic of factual broadcasting, Cosmos – written and presented by the genuine personality and genuine expert Carl Sagan – is that “we are made of star stuff.” The heavy elements that make the formation of planets and the evolution of life possible are produced by nuclear fusion reactions inside stars. For the incomprehensibly long period of 15 billion years, since it was “created” by an initial expansion of energy condensing into matter, our universe – “the” universe – has fostered the evolution of heavy elements in its seventy sextillian nuclear reactors. At 4.57 billion years ago, our sun – “the” sun – formed from the great gaseous remnants of previous suns – countless ancestral yet alien solar systems that had already lived out their full lives. A few tens of millions of years later, our Earth – “the” Earth – was in place orbiting that sun, and somewhen, perhaps half a billion or a billion years after that, life – life that, by cycling through natural laws and processes, has since evolved and diversified into many millions of fantastically exquisite different species – had arisen on that earth.
A mere four or five million years ago – one one-thousandth of the duration of that earth's existence – a particular branch of that earth's tree of life, a branch that considers itself special, separated from what is now its nearest extant neighbour. During those four million years, the traits that this species thinks set it apart – above – its neighbours were stumbled upon by evolution. That species found itself in possession of a large brain and intellect, and created a culture and shared memory, recording the species' own unique perspective on the most recent one one-millionth of the history of its tiny speck of the universe. Its history of developments in technology, philosophy, and civilisation. Of petty feuds and passing love affairs, kings and peasants, heroes and villains. Of coming to see and to know and to begin to enjoy its cosmic landscape.
Individuals of that species alive today – at least, the affluent ones – are privileged to experience around six one-billionths of their universe's history so far. Their lungs will take one billion breaths, exchanging a million molecules of star stuff each time. They will breath the same dust of the stars that before them was breathed by their tree-dwelling ancestors and great reptilian monsters on ancient continents; by their friends and their enemies, and by their own personal heroes. They will drink star stuff that rained from acid skies on an infant planet, and lapped at the shores of lakes of primordial soup; that carried great voyages of discovery, and was blessed by countless priests. In the blink of an eye they get to learn, to love, and to see the mountains, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
And if them mountains look frightening at first, they just better get used to them. The view from the top is more beautiful than anything a man could ever hope to paint and mount in a frame.
Keywords: Carl Sagan, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, UK, lakes, mountains, rants, reflections, stars
NIKON D90 10 mm f/4.0 30 ISO 640 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 21:05:12
Derwent Water
2009-05-12 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 12 May 2009
I do hope you like Derwent Water, because I fear there may be rather a lot of it about to fill the stream...
I think I've seen that same branch on many a flickr stream, and yes, I did take part in the ritual of repositioning it for a shot...
Keywords: 123, 123L, 123M, 2for2, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, NA, PiF, TWTME, UK, lakes, landscape, lpyc, mountains, reflections
NIKON D90 24 mm f/10.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 06:21:28
misty vale
2009-05-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 May 2009
from way back...
Keywords: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England, Stalbridge, UK, landscape, sunrise
NIKON D50 130 mm f/8.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-12-30 08:20:03
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