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Posted at 22:51:46 on Tue, May 13th 2008 by graham
in: d40x landscape photography reflection stream three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 water yorkshire yorkshiredales yorkshiredalesnationalpark

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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.

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Mostly unspoiled

Posted at 22:24:39 on Sun, May 11th 2008 by graham
in: colourised d40x gimpd landscape photography ribblehead three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 yorkshire yorkshiredales yorkshiredalesnationalpark

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Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 131

Taken from Ribblehead station. I wanted to get this shot a couple of days ago, when I took this one, but the clouds were too uniform to be interesting. I came back for the sake of getting this shot, in the hope that the sky would do something photoworthy. Thankfully, it did.

It's a little too dark (it looks better viewed large, but I couldn't get the contrast right without blowing the sky. (I've tweaked the light on this and re-uploaded, since it looked awful when viewed on my desktop machine rather than my laptop).

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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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For this, they built a viaduct

Posted at 23:44:21 on Sat, April 19th 2008 by graham
in: d40x landscape northyorkshire photography ribblehead stream three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 water yorkshire

Graham Binns posted a photo:

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.