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Silent stream

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Silent stream

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 161

A stream in the Forest of Bowland. This didn't look right for me until I accidentally recoloured it. I think it's probably over-processed, actually.

Babble

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Babble

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 133

There's not enough words to describe how beautiful I find the Yorkshire Dales (okay, I'm a Lancashire man, so that's almost treason, but we'll gloss over that).

They're so desolate and yet full of life, scruffy and yet elegant. Just when you think there's nothing bug scrubby long grass and mossy hillocks all around you you find something like this, which is about as close to idyllic as you can get.

Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town

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Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town

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.

For this, they built a viaduct

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For this, they built a viaduct

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 110

The stream that runs under the Ribblehead Viaduct, a 24-arch span that crosses the Ribble Valley in North Yorkshire.

This might actually be the Ribble itself, or it may be but a tributary, I don't know. It's a wonderfully calm and idyllic spot, but only in the evenings or early mornings. During the day it's full of heavily togged-out tourists and walkers and somehow all the romance just drains out of the place.

I intend to go back and shoot the viaduct itself at some point. Probably at sunrise, when the conditions will be better.

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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.

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