Landscape
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Cumbria Again
I was driving back from Scotland yesterday in heavy rain, wondering whether to go straight home or stop off somewhere to do some Christmas shopping. As I drove down the M6 south of Penrith, the sky looked a bit brighter over to the south west…so I took a quick detour off the motorway at Shap and made my way over towards Ambleside. With no particular aim in mind (and shopping still on the cards), there looked like a tantalising bright area in the clouds, so I decided to carry on through Ambleside and take the road through Langdale. At this point the clouds joined up again and it started to…
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An Evening at Salford Quays
It’s become a bit of a Joke that club meetings with Wigan 10 have been blessed with fantastic weather and outings with Oldham Photographic Society have been invariably subject to poor light and heavy rain. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when OPS members met up at Salford Quays last Thursday evening to interesting and improving light. I had arrived late afternoon, before some of the other members and was treated to some good early light. Around 5ish, the sun went behind clouds and the light became dull, so a couple of us went for a pizza and an hour later the light had returned. Gallery 1 (click on thumbnails to enlarge)…
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Saddleworth Walk: Pots’n’Pans and Alderman
A Sunday afternoon walk Sometimes I think we don’t live in the most convenient place, but I can’t see how we could ever drag ourselves away from our beloved Saddleworth hills. The walk up to Pots’n’Pans from Greenfield is very popular up as far as the war memorial…but go beyond that and the chance of meeting other walkers is more and more unlikely. To this end we set off for a Sunday afternoon walk…starting from Knowle Top, just above our house. It was decided that we should take the most direct (steepest) route up. Bad idea! I think next time I would rather walk further and have to stop for…
