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A Springtime shot for you. I quite like the band of blue that runs across the middle of the shot, lending a splash of colour against the rest of the greenery and the silhouettes of the trees.
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Back on Stonington Island this week. This sign was beyond the rusty nails and bits of glass and rusty metalwork of the American base. Whether someone had moved it from its original place or whether there was worse beyond I will never find out.
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Spring… depending on your viewpoint either started on the 1st March as classed by the weather forcasters, is about to start on the 21st as classed by the astronomers or will start whenever the weather perks up a bit.
Whatever your view, a spring like picture of the week for you this week. Green leaves, new flowers, the fresh drops of rain. This is the lesser periwinkle, bit invasive this one, likes rooting wherever its stems touch the ground.
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Outside the abandoned American base on Stonington Island, Antarctic peninsula. In complete contrast to the British base only a few hundred meters away the American base was showing its age. Outside what was left of the workshop the ground was littered with bits and pieces, from nails to broken candles and exposed film.
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Looking to Bassenthwaite Lake and beyond on the route up to Bleaberry Fell. To the right is Keswick. The fell is not particularly challenging and afforded plenty of scenic views especially at the top where some of the higher mountains of the lake district finally come in to view.
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On Shining Tor in the Peak District. A cold, misty, windy day.
I like this picture because of the motion from the wind. It gives the feeling of movement and I think adds something to the picture because of it.
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22nd February 2009 and we had finally arrived back in Ushuaia after a 4 night crossing of the Drake Passage from below the Antarctic circle. We were on a different ship having been rescued from the grounded Ocean Nova after a 36 hour wait for help that at one point was truely scary. Stuck on rocks with the ship tilting at an angle with hurricaine force winds howling round the ship.
This is the scene the morning of us arriving back in port, altogether more serene and no hint of the adventure we’d had. Thanks to Karl McGowan for allowing the use of the picture, I don’t have any from when the holiday went slightly wrong onwards.
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Friday the 13th 2009 found me in Antarctica, or very very close to it. We spent the day exploring the South Shetland Islands, starting off at Barrientos Island and then here, Deception Island.
The ship we sailed on was the Ocean Nova, holding just 65 passengers, on a 14 day trip down the Antarctic Peninsula to as far south as we could make, crossing the Antarctic circle in the process.
Friday 13th ended for us making the crossing from the South Shetland Islands to the Antarctic continent itself with the sun slowly setting in a cloud free sky and two whales repeatedly surfacing and diving close by as we drifted for a while with the engines off so we could watch.
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The Lake district. Looking south from Brothers Water, my map reading skills aren’t the best in the world but I’ve worked out the three peaks you are looking at are (left to right) a spur of Caudale Moor, Middle Dodd and High Hartsop Dodd.
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If your view of paradise is a warm sunny isle with a sandy beach and waves gently lapping on the shore you will be sorely disappointed visiting Paradise bay. On the Antarctic penisula, and for those people with a slightly wider definition of what counts, this is a truely special place. Stunning in it beauty and so far unspoilt, long may it stay that way.
