If you haven’t decided to follow my new site at artoflandscape.co.uk, here’s something hopefully to tempt you – a new post about a winter round of the Langdale Pikes with a good story and a few good shots:
https://www.artoflandscape.co.uk/post/the-sublime-the-langdale-pikes-in-winter
UPDATE: I’ve added a subascription form to the bottom of the main blog page to allow you to follow the new blog. You’ll get an email whenever I add a new blog post.
I’ll be moving hosting providers soon and one of the casualties of the move will be this blog. I have a new blog as part of the new site but this one won’t be kept going. As this is a WordPress site and the new one isn’t, I think it means that if you use the WordPress Reader to view the blogs you subscribe to, you won’t see the new one.
It’s a shame I have to do this, as I suspect some (many? most?) of you may not come across to the new site, which would be sad. I have to do it though. The new host, Wix.com, has much better features and it means I can combine the main site and blog under a single URL.
I’ve also used this to revamp my branding. Marketing really isn’t my strength but I’ve made a big effort to try and come up with a more professional image which I’ll adopt across social media and also on my market stall, so I hope that works well.
To get the new site going I’ve added some blog posts with new photos from trips I’ve made recently. There’s some pretty good shots there, if I say so myself. I hope you’ll come over and take a look. This URL will continue but my main site URL – artoflandscape.co.uk – will migrate to the new host. For the moment it’s still on the free domain, which is:
The bluebells around the Lake District are good this year. I took these two weeks ago around Langdale and Grasmere.
You can see some of my shots in a 4×4 portfolio published by OnLandscape magazine this month at https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2018/07/subscribers-4×4-portfolios-163/
We’ve just got back from a holiday in Provence. Not the weather we’d hoped for and I didn’t take many photographs but here’s one that includes two of the main features of the holiday – rock (for climbing on) and blossom.
The Duddon Valley is in the south-west of the Lake District, running north to south just to the left of Coniston. It isn’t popular, perhaps because it doesn’t have any big mountains, but it’s one of the most beautiful valleys of Cumbria. Spring is a good time to visit because of the blackthorn and hawthorn blossom, wild garlic, bluebells, and the delicate bright green of new leaves.
The road climbs very steeply for half a mile as you enter the valley and as soon as it levels out you give an internal “ooh” as you see the view. The fields, walls, barns and hills are laid out just so and the trees look like they’ve been chosen to make an arboretum. This is one place where the view is better down near the road than from the hill tops.
The rain that started at lunch time wasn’t just a shower and eventually I gave up early and retired for a cuppa at an empty cafe in Broughton, a very pleasant little market village close by.
I’m happy to have some of my Wales photographs featured over at OnLandscape at the moment. Why not take a look?
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2018/04/cwm-bychan-the-heights/
Happy Christmas for 2017! I haven’t posted anything here for a while for the simple reason that November and December are my busiest months in the year by quite a long way. Doing three markets per week instead of two per month, extra sales through the web, plus all the restocking that’s needed, leave no time for going out taking photos. That’s all finished now and hopefully back to normal. Weather permitting I hope to be back in the hills next week and taking more photographs. Here are some other new things for 2018:
You can now find me on facebook. I have a page at @artoflandscapephoto on which I’ll be posting updates and news. Please take a look.
I’ve started adding market dates to my events page on the main site.
I’ve been slack at keeping up my galleries page and my Etsy online shop with my latest work, so I’ve started adding new work to Etsy and will continue with that over the coming days and weeks.
I’m planning to start offering photography workshops and individual tuition at some point in 2018. Not sure when yet but I’m currently trying it out on some willing test subjects. Let me know if you’re interested.
That’s all for now. Good shooting for 2018.
Anthony
Working at the computer for any length of time is currently giving me muscular problems, hence why I haven’t been posting much. Here’s a shot from yesterday that I like. I did a round of Snowdon, up the Rhyd Ddu path and down the Snowdon Ranger path. As usual, Snowdon itself was under a thick blanket of cloud. This isn’t just bad luck, as Snowdon usually makes its own clouds even if everywhere else is clear.
Anyway, this is a shot looking north-west from the ridge of Clogwyn Du’r Arddu towards Moel Cynghorion and Y Garn. This also marks the return of my lovely little Olympus OMD-EM10, for which I’ve finally managed to save up and buy a replacement lens. I’m now convinced that the picture quality from the Olympus is better than from my Pentax so I’m really happy to have it back.
Windgather is a wonderful outcrop of perfect gritstone on the western edge of the Peak District, not far from Macclesfield. It’s a wonderful rock climbing crag, especially if you like easy climbs (which I do). Good rock, easy access, wonderful views. I wanted a bit of bouldering and soloing and thought I’d have the place to myself on a weekday. No such luck. There were several minibuses-worth of school children on a day out, though they did stick to just one part of the crag so no too much of a problem. Continue reading
Anthony Shaughnessy 