Quite a nice wee scene. Getting to it left me with battle scars. Well, scratched legs! The joys of the well off piste 😂 #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
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Quite a nice wee scene. Getting to it left me with battle scars. Well, scratched legs! The joys of the well off piste 😂 #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
Green and Great Gable, Kirk Fell and heather. ##landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
Golden Misty Morning. Looking down into a beautifully Misty Langdale from Lingmoor. #landscapephotography #lakedistrict
Always good to see you guys!
As a British person, so not 100% sure, but I thought that this is precisely the reason why you have the 2nd. Obviously, I could be wrong, so I'm more than willing to be educated. And no, I'm not advocating gun violence, but defence against a tyrannical government has to be better that school shooti
It's not debatable. An attack on a sovereign state, especially one considered to be at war, is an act of war. But let's look at it another way. Russia bombs a US nuclear site, is that to be considered an act of war, or just an "operation "?
I made the mistake of parking on White Moss a few years ago, cost me 11 quid for a little over 3 hours. Never again.
Hmm, isn't an "operation" in this context, a part of an ongoing war? Or even a declaration of war? Surely attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war, one which can't be prettied up by the use of flowery words such as "operation".
Parking at White Moss? Someone's doing well 😂
I actually can't wait, one of my great joys in to just stand in the heather surrounded by a giant cloud of jubilant and busy bees!
Yep, I found a wee patch up on Holme fell 2 weeks ago.
When Mother Nature gives you mountain fog lemons, make mountain fog lemonade! #landscapephotography #lakedistrict
A wee bit heart in mouth, I went up to see my tree last night. after being so gutted to see it obviously sick last year I've been a bit reluctant to go up there. But here she is, telling me not to worry, that despite being bark-stripped by the deer which often sleep under her, she's doing just fine.
Castle Crag and the rowan. Weather conditions mean this is by no means the finished article, more a scouting image for a future visit. #landscapephotography #lakedistrict
Yeah, but don't forget, this is coming from the country who shouted (and continue to shout) "commie" at everything that wasn't "conservative" during the witch hunts.
Never owned an apple product and never will. Android for phones and windows for PC have worked and continue to work just fine for my needs. Apple phones macs have always been style over substance afaic.
Bottom of the Quay at the start of the path to Glasson. There was quite a fight for it to finally be awarded town green status. It's far from being a great woodland photography wise, but it's a lovely space. And there's ongoing planting of natives and wildflowers.
There's an incredible show of hawthorn in Freeman's wood in Lancaster, Mike. Branches are being weighed down under the weight of blossom and the scent is almost overwhelming.
Gorgeous this, Mike.
I was with you all the way. Right up to "his genius"
Of course he's right. But that doesn't excuse all his other monumental cuntitude.
Looks like IR but it isn't. An experiment in capturing an essence of spring in black and white. And back to ignoring compositional "rules" In this case, the rule of odds! #landscapephotography #spring #LakeDistrict #blackandwhitephotography
Cut them out of your life. I know that sounds incredibly harsh, but experience should tell us all that talking people out a certain mindsets is incredibly hard and rarely succeeds, they'll just dig their heels in and hurt you more.
I think you do. You almost certainly don't like what it's going to take, but you do know.
Thank you, yes. I've actually photographed this scene many times and you need to be in place at just the right time, it's a narrow window between the sun rising into position and it moving behind the mountain above. This is only ever back-lit early in the morning.
Considering there's been no rain for a couple of weeks, the sudden leap into life has been stunning to watch unfold. And now the oak are coming to join the party, so next week should be interesting too.
These are pretty much my ideal conditions!
This was the state of play last weekend.
What a difference a week makes! I photographed this scene last weekend and I was just a few minutes late for the light. This time I was in place on time and the new leaves were glowing in the morning sun. #landscapephotography #woodlandphotography #LakeDistrict #spring
We managed this in mid winter. Many other towns and cities saw massive demos on the same day. Honestly, I think the turnout for Sanders and Harris was fantastic. But after 4 months, this should be huge and happening almost constantly. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
No it's not, dude, it's the future of your country.
This is great and all, but 35k is an average premier league football attendance every single Saturday during the season here in the UK. It's just 1.2% of the city's population. Your uprising is going to need to be much much bigger.
Genesis of spring. #landscapephotography #woodlandphotography #LakeDistrict
A throwback to those heady days before all this blue skies nonsense. Well, just over a month ago! #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
Don't get me wrong, I was over the moon that they ran the tories out of town, but my conscience wouldn't allow me to vote for them, which is a shame because my local mp has been ace, she works really hard within the community.
The reason why I didn't vote Labour for only the 2nd time in my life and cancelled my membership was because the writing was very much on the wall. How they still have the gall to describe themselves as a democratic socialist party is beyond me.
This just continues the whole "isn't Boris great, he's just a loveable fool" mistake millions made. No, Boris isn't negligent or inept, everything he does is done deliberately. And it's the same with Trump.
It's a nice reminder that I really need to go back soon, too! Not sure if you've ever been up to Newbiggin Crags, but it's well worth a look, similar limestone pavement formations and some great trees. Very local to me and another place I keep forgetting to go back to. I blame the Lakes 🤣
Who needs tidy cupboards? I'm fairly sure I've photographed these two chaps before. Not as well as this mind!
In which Borrowdale does its thing, Mali makes some cracking images and he and some bloke giggle on a hill. And it definitely wasn't me who farted.
Indeed. But I think there's something much deeper and darker at play than a type of Stockholm syndrome. Trump's political opposition has fallen almost completely silent. There appears to be no real will at a high level to lead any cohesive backlash. You're being hung out to dry.
Obviously the person who blocked me after calling me an idiot and "part of the problem" can't see this because they blocked me. But I'm lightyears away from being any part of America's problem, which, like it or not, was caused by apathy and misogyny, not some bloke in the UK. Own your shit, USA.
Exactly what I mean when I say that he's running by Hitler's playbook. And exactly why it's going to take much much more than a few thousand folk standing on street corners waving placards.
As I said, we watched hundreds of similar videos every day during Biden's tenure, we saw dozens and dozens of legal challenges fail. You get back to me when this changes anything. And the fact remains, apathy and misogyny lost the election.
Thankfully I don't live in the USA. But it never ceases to amaze me that many of you seem to be surprised by this. Many of us around the world have been warning about your impending fascist for the best part of 10 years. It comes as no surprise to us.
You know, not so very long ago we saw "shocking proof that Biden stole the election" videos every single bloody day for 4 years. Apathy stole the election, "i ain't voting for no woman" stole the election. Not trump. Be better.
What trump and DOGE under musk are doing doesn't really need much in the way of qualifications and competency. Smashing things that took many decades to build needs little more than a few big hammers and the skill to swing them!
I'm afraid that soon won't be soon enough. The fascist takeover is almost complete. And the entire planet may have to deal with what potentially could come next.
2/ isn't going to be good enough. Direct action on an enormous scale are going to be needed. And even then, it's highly unlikely that trump will bend he'll just sign more edicts, further eroding any and all of your constitutional rights. This is exactly how Hitler did it, it's his playbook.
Oh I know some Americans are protesting, but there are few signs of anything cohesive, very little, away from social media, in the way of resistance. In a country of 340 million, these protests and resistance need to be registering in the 10s of millions. A couple of thousand here and there 1/
3/ hunger for what's going to be needed next.
2/ apparent now. With every unconstitutional edict, your fascist dictator cements an even stronger foothold with his minions running riot within your government departments. This eventually is going to take a bit more than people on the streets waving placards, I honestly don't think you have the...
As someone looking in from the outside, there are very few signs that this "eventually " is ever going to happen. You as a country had the power to stop this in its tracks by not electing trump but apathy and an unwillingness to elect a (black) woman put paid to that. That same apathy is even 1/
So short-lived, it may well have died of old age.
I was merely pointing out that you were wrong in your assertion that all, or most of our infrastructure is usa owned. Of course most should be under public ownership but at this present moment in time, I'll settle for them not being US owned/controlled.
Hmm, most of the uses energy providers, especially nuclear are French/Chinese owned. Royal mail is owned by a Czech run consortium. Most water isn't US company owned, apart from south western, owned. by Blackrock and Norjes bank. Gas and oil? Nope, not USA.
I do loves me a wee bit of mood. #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
Unfortunately your president, elected by your people, doesn't understand the ramifications of very deliberately starting a trade war with your closest neighbour. If he does understand, he doesn't give a shit.
No, when I want to talk about bad faith, I look directly at Putin and anyone who parrots his flimsy propaganda. Like Trump, you're throwing your weight behind a dictator.
If the USA "meddled" in 2004, so did Russia, they supported the Yanukovych campaign. The difference is, the USA was supporting democratic elections, there was no attack on a sovereign country, unlike Russias 2 invasions.
2/2 Russia, the UK, and France from threatening military action and financial coerscion against Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Trump has now also broken those terms. No NATO country has.
Tell me, if you can take your head from putin's arse long enough, which country was the first and only one to break the terms of the BM, not once but twice? Can you honestly blame Zalenskyy for not having any trust in Putin? BM actually didn't "enshrine neutrality" it specifically prohibited 1/2
And 3 years later, Russia haven't won, they have largely failed in their "special operations" even having to rely on help from NK. Do I agree with the war? No, absolutely not. But I do agree that Ukraine has the right to defend their sovereignty against invasion.
2/2 to provide, under the terms of the NPT and Budapest memorandum it signed in 1994. The latter doc is the really important 1 here.
Oh I dunno, how about the leaders of practically every European country who think it's vital that the person leading the country, which is the victim of a brutal and illegal invasion, is at the table and not being coerced into giving up his mineral wealth for protections that the US is obligated 1/2
Here in the UK and in Europe, every single one of the demos were organised by left wing and liberal groups, while the right either stayed away or attacked them. Mainly because it was the right who openly supported Israel's continued genocide against Palestinians. It suits their hatred of Muslims.
The US had absolutely no bloody right not to include Zalenskyy. You remember him, right? The president of the invaded country, who you seem to want to roll over and cede at least half of his country's mineral wealth to a fucking racketeer. Peace talks MUST involve both parties.
Not that fascist prick Trump.
2/2 USA meeting the aggressor in the ukraine war and not inviting the Ukrainian president to "peace" talks. Anyhoo, the grown ups are at the table now.
Not sure how things went during the over 12,000 pro palestine/anti genocide demos in the US. But here in the UK and across Europe, tens of millions spoke out against our government's support for Israel. And "liberals" absolutely do protest against war. What we don't like is the president of the 1/2
Thanks, Em. It was turned all the way up to 11 for a while!
Kirkstone Pass... is in there somewhere. #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
The whole Helvellyn massif with added St Sunday Crag from somewhere between the Knight and Place Fell. Photography regrets? Not going up there when there was more snow. A wee natter with @marklittlejohn.bsky.social reminded me how much I love it up there. #landscapephotography #LakeDistrict
Very much so, it doesn't share the same kudos as its mates over the water, which is a good thing!
Easy to see why. I love the walk from Patterdale to silver point and the return round the back of Silver crag. I really need to do that again soon.
Lovely peaceful part of the lake.
For now? You have at least four years of this. Nothing short of an armed uprising, which would require your armed forces and law enforcement onside, is going to change this. And I very much doubt that there's much hunger, beyond shouty Internet rhetoric, for civil war.
Gorgeous light. Is that Devil's chimney area?
Bran says hi back. He doesn't mind the cold.
Re the trump gaza video. Stop being so surprised by what that maniac posts. He'd throw up a video of maggots eating the rotting flesh of his own offspring with great glee if there was a quick buck in it for him.
Staying and refusing would be better than running away. They'll be replaced by folk willing to do the job. Running away isn't a protest, it's running away.
Yup. Like all SM sites, Twitter relies on engagement, any engagement, no matter how small, is what they need to survive. Deny them the oxygen of engagement and they wither away.
Way to tell the world that you're about to do something very illegal.
That can't be real, Bran is stomping on your spuds 😂
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Nah, the bases are fully loaded in his favour. And it's going to get worse, much much worse. I feel for you guys in the US, it's making for disturbing reading here in the UK.
Solidarity from this little corner of the UK. Stand strong.
Ahhh, maybe I should just do that!
I've just got cheap crappy ones that plug into a cigarette lighter socket but wouldn't mind some decent hardwired ones.
Looking good mate! Are those led strips hard wired?
Thanks very much, Mike. It was a lovely spot!
I guess the world can hope that more like this are willing to remember their oath.
Thing is, Trump and co know that the likelihood of being invaded is tiny. Unless, of course, Putin stabbed him in the back and came in via Alaska.
I feel that for the time being, Trump won't pull out of NATO, the USA veto would be pretty much the only thing preventing ukraine from joining and enjoying all the protection that came with it.
Thanks! It's strange, it actually looked more like early spring than early autumn! But that light, which didn't last long was lovely. Took 3 days to happen 😂
Seeing @davidqueenan.bsky.social and others posting images from the Trossachs reminded me of this scene, less than 100 yards from my parkup, it teased me for a couple of days before delivering the gorgeous early morning side light that I knew it needed. #landscapephotography #woodlandphotography
It was missing on my visit too! I've just promised myself another visit in the spring, hopefully I'll take in a couple of the Arrochar Alps while I'm there.
Definitely! My problems were made worse by it being the start of autumn, so the call of the trees was loud!
Chon is gorgeous. I wish I'd spent more time down that way instead of staying close to Loch Katrine, although my parkup was lovely and handy for Ben Venue and Loch Achray.
Stunning view. Only been there once, I stopped briefly at loch Chon on my way to Inversnaid and then being utterly stunned by the view as I approached Arklet, unfortunately there was no light and the cloud rolled in, the mountains only reappeared while I was enjoying my pint at inversnaid hotel!