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Derwent Water

2009-07-02 01:00:00

Derwent Water

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Photoblog: 02 Jul 2009

More from April.


Keywords: BRAVO, Cumbria, Derwent Water, Lake District, UK, lakes, monochrome, mountains


NIKON D90 24 mm 18.0 +0.75 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-18 19:39:13


Fishguard Harbour

2009-06-30 01:00:00

Fishguard Harbour

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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, sea


NIKON D90 46 mm 9.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-21 11:25:00


Buttermere

2009-06-28 01:00:00

Buttermere

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Photoblog: 28 Jun 2009


Keywords: 2for2, Buttermere, Cumbria, England, Lake District, TWTME, UK, lakes, mountains


NIKON D90 26 mm 10.0 +0.30 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 12:26:36


rocks

2009-06-26 01:00:00

rocks

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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 10.0 -0.45 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-11 17:08:55


Abereiddy

2009-06-24 01:00:00

Abereiddy

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Photoblog: 24 Jun 2009


Keywords: Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, beaches, landscape, sea, sunset


NIKON D90 10 mm 9.0 -0.30 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-18 19:58:49


Tunnel 228

2009-06-23 01:00:00

Tunnel 228

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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 3.5 -0.95 ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:24:26


Derwent Water

2009-06-22 01:00:00

Derwent Water

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Photoblog: 22 Jun 2009

in the morning...


Keywords: Borrowdale, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Jaws of Borrowdale, Lake District, UK, lakes, mountains, reflections


NIKON D90 34 mm 10.0 +1.15 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 07:06:09


Burnham

2009-06-20 01:00:00

Burnham

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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

Abereiddy

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Photoblog: 18 Jun 2009

In Pembrokeshire.


Keywords: 123L, Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, beaches, sea, sunset


NIKON D90 36 mm 9.0 -0.55 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-18 19:46:04


Tunnel 228

2009-06-17 01:00:00

Tunnel 228

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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


Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:24:39


Preseli Hills

2009-06-15 01:00:00

Preseli Hills

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Photoblog: 15 Jun 2009

and Newport Bay in the foreground.


Keywords: Atlantic, Irish Sea, Newport, Newport Bay, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, sea


NIKON D90 65 mm 9.0 +0.25 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-21 13:30:19


Derwent Water

2009-06-13 01:00:00

Derwent Water

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Photoblog: 13 Jun 2009


Keywords: Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, UK, lakes, mountains, silhouettes, sunset


NIKON D90 52 mm 11.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 18:17:24


Honister Pass

2009-06-11 01:00:00

Honister Pass

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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, mountains


NIKON D90 18 mm 10.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 10:24:00


Abereiddy

2009-06-09 01:00:00

Abereiddy

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Photoblog: 09 Jun 2009

on the Pembrokeshire coast...


Keywords: Abereiddy, Atlantic, Irish Sea, Pembrokeshire, UK, Wales, cliffs, sea


NIKON D90 105 mm 9.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-19 14:36:45


Derwent Water

2009-06-07 01:00:00

Derwent Water

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Photoblog: 07 Jun 2009


Keywords: 123N, 321, Cumbria, Derwent Wanter, England, Lake District, UK, flowers, lakes, mountains


NIKON D90 18 mm 10.0 -0.50 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 18:42:03


Newlands valley

2009-06-05 01:00:00

Newlands valley

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Photoblog: 05 Jun 2009

Photoblog: 05 Jun 2009

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, mountains


NIKON D90 46 mm 11.0 +0.45 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 12:39:53


Tunnel 228

2009-06-04 01:00:00

Tunnel 228

Large version - Comment at flickr.com

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 3.5 0.00 ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:28:42


Hive Beach

2009-06-03 01:00:00

Hive Beach

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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, sea, sunset


NIKON D90 65 mm 10.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-11 18:34:38


fallen angel

2009-06-02 01:00:00

fallen angel

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Photoblog: 02 Jun 2009

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 4.0 0.00 ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-10-17 11:59:35


CWS

2009-06-01 01:00:00

CWS

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Photoblog: 01 Jun 2009

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 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-10 17:02:38


gulls!

2009-05-16 01:00:00

gulls!

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Photoblog: 16 May 2009

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 8.0 +1.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-04-01 07:43:28


star stuff

2009-05-14 01:00:00

star stuff

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Photoblog: 14 May 2009

Photoblog: 14 May 2009

You need to view it large on black. It's badly stiched, I know...

--

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.

--

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 4.0 0.00 ISO 640 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 21:05:12


Derwent Water

2009-05-12 01:00:00

Derwent Water

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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, TWTME, UK, lakes, mountains, reflections


NIKON D90 24 mm 10.0 +0.25 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 06:21:28


misty vale

2009-05-10 01:00:00

misty vale

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Photoblog: 10 May 2009

Photoblog: 10 May 2009

from way back...


Keywords: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England, Stalbridge, UK, sunrise


NIKON D50 130 mm 8.0 -0.80 ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-12-30 08:20:03


Croyde

2009-05-08 01:00:00

Croyde

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Photoblog: 08 May 2009

Photoblog: 08 May 2009

From April last year.


Keywords: Croyde, Croyde Bay, Devon, England, North Devon, UK, beaches, dunes


NIKON D50 80 mm 6643856/1000000 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-30 18:06:33


Whitehall

2009-05-07 01:00:00

Whitehall

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Photoblog: 07 May 2009

Photoblog: 07 May 2009

Galleries: London

A long exposure with a couple of busses going past. A police car came past making a big attention seeking fuss about something or other, so I grabbed everything to move to safety (the number of police cars I've seen firmly planted in the bollards and railings on Whitehall on my evening commutes...) giving a few additional weird effects here and there...

The headlights blew out completely, so an area around them merges into a -2 exposure from the raw file.


Keywords: England, London, Palace of Westminster, UK, Whitehall, busses, equestrian statues, londonist, long exposure, night, statues


NIKON D50 60 mm 13.0 -2.45 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-10 21:06:30


Swyre Head

2009-05-06 01:00:00

Swyre Head

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Photoblog: 06 May 2009

Photoblog: 06 May 2009

Galleries: Dorset > Jurassic Coast

from Eldon Seat. cliffs of Kimmeridge in the distance.


Keywords: 123L, 2for2, A1F1, Dorset, England, Jurassic Coast, Kimmeridge, Purbeck, Swyre Head, TWTME, UK


NIKON D50 18 mm 9.0 +0.70 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-01-27 15:16:56


Battersea Power Station

2009-05-05 01:00:00

Battersea Power Station

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Photoblog: 05 May 2009

Photoblog: 05 May 2009

The open day.


Keywords: Battersea, Battersea Power Station, England, London, Nine Elms, UK, Wandsworth, West London, derelict, londonist


NIKON D50 120 mm 6643856/1000000 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-08-23 15:11:12


boat!

2009-05-03 01:00:00

boat!

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Photoblog: 03 May 2009

Photoblog: 03 May 2009

Galleries: London

next to the dome...


Keywords: 2for2, Docklands, East London, England, London, North Greenwich, River Thames, UK, boats


NIKON D90 10 mm 8.0 0.00 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-22 16:14:50


Dog on boat

2009-05-01 01:00:00

Dog on boat

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Photoblog: 01 May 2009

Photoblog: 01 May 2009

From May or June 2004, when I was just getting into photography by going for evening walks around the harbour.


Keywords: Bristol, England, Floating Harbour, Redcliffe, Redcliffe Wharf, UK, animals, boats, cleanup, dogs


FinePixA204 6 mm 360/100 0.003 sec (1/340) ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2004-01-01 00:10:46


barges

2009-04-29 01:00:00

barges

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Photoblog: 29 Apr 2009

Photoblog: 29 Apr 2009

Galleries: London

on the river yesterday morning.


Keywords: Charing Cross Station, England, London, River Thames, UK, Westminster Bridge, architecture, barges, boats, briges, rivers


NIKON D90 82 mm 9.0 +0.25 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-18 09:11:57


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