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A lone traveller

Posted at 22:11:28 on Thu, April 24th 2008 by graham
in: d40x forestofbowland lamb lancashire landscape moors photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

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Three hundred and sixty odd days of 2008, day 114

A solitary lamb wanders away from the camera on Roeburn Road, near Littledale.

Actually, he's not alone. His mum is just the the right of him, hidden in the long grass. Just after I took this shot she herded him away, giving me reproachful glances as they left.

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Many monuments to man

Posted at 22:07:48 on Wed, April 23rd 2008 by graham
in: d40x heysham heyshampowerstation lancashire landscape morecambe morecambebay photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 113

The view out over the bay from the moors above Caton and Littledale. In the near distance, the salt-cruet shape of Ashton Memorial. Behind that, the twinned bulk of Heysham nuclear power station and, in the far, far distance (and not visible except in the large version), its newer cousin, the Morecambe Bay offshore wind farm.

The landscape is lovely. I wish we could stop putting things all over it.

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A long, slow collapse

Posted at 23:45:41 on Mon, April 21st 2008 by graham
in: buildings colourised d40x lancashire landscape northyorkshire photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 yorkshire

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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 112

A collapsing cottage on the road between Ingleton and Hawes.

I would have liked to get closer to this so that I could have worked with some more extreme angles. Unfortunately a large, barbed-wire fence was in the way and I couldn't find a way over it.

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Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town

Posted at 23:45:16 on Sun, April 20th 2008 by graham
in: d40x foxhillbank foxhillbanknaturereserve lancashire landscape nature ossy oswaldtwistle photography stream three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 tinkerbrook water

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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 111

This is Tinker Brook as it runs through Foxhill Bank nature reserve in Oswaldtwistle.

Once an area of hard concrete lodges, this is now just about the closest most Ossy people will get to nature without heading out of town and into the moors. It used to be made up of disused concrete lodges but a lot of work, followed by a lot of letting nature take its course, has made it rather a pretty place.

We used to come here after school when I was a kid, to talk and laugh and feed the swans. Witness a little bit of my childhood as it drifts on by.

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Post-industral countryside

Posted at 23:43:59 on Fri, April 18th 2008 by graham
in: accrington belthorn blackburn d40x grainroad home lancashire landscape oswaldtwistle photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 109

Three East Lancashire towns: on the left, Blackburn, on the right, Oswaldtwistle, where I grew up, and Accrington.

Taken from the Grain Road at Belthorn, possibly the most exposed an inhospitable place in the whole of East Lancs, except for today.

I do accept, by the way, that this looks somewhat like a Windows XP desktop background. I apologise.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.