Couldn't resist dashing up the hill this morning to take a moment above the clouds before they break.

Pics taken from Moel Morfyd. Dee Valley.

Couldn't resist dashing up the hill this morning to take a moment above the clouds before they break.

Pics taken from Moel Morfyd. Dee Valley.

Monday Muse: Deborah Parkin On horses, slowing down, and staying creative

Years ago, I published a photoblog. The premise was simple: a photo a day with some links to see more of that artist’s work. Instagram changed everything, so I’m trying something new. No algorithms, no ads. Just a picture to start your week. Enjoy!
www.flakphoto.news/p/monday-mus...

“Your mountainish inhumanity”

We’re doing this to ourselves

Editor’s Note | Hiding Black History Will Never Erase It Features Editor Nate Schumann discusses a recent incident in Philadelphia involving the federal censorship of “unfavorable” U.S. history.

OPINION: "If white Americans feel conflicted when they learn about Black hardship, it’s because they know those conditions were unfair," Nate Schumann writes. "That discomfort is important because it can lead to something this nation needs a little more of right now: empathy."

It shouldn't be on kids to fix all that's wrong with the world, that's 💯 on us. But I am continually in awe of how uncompromising they can be, on so many serious issues. I hope we can do better by them. 💜

Black and white landscape print featuring storm

#Rain is relentless in Dublin today – sheets of it! 🌧️

This Elizabeth Rivers print, ‘With #wind rain this journal opened…’ (c. 1947), feels like the perfect companion to the #storm. Explore it here: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041943

From my first zine, ‘One Night’.
June 7th, 2018. Czech Republic.

I arrived at the train station hotel after a 6 hour drive from Slovakia.
Showing the booking on my phone to the lady at the bar, she asked me, ‘Eat’?
I nodded yes.
‘Choose’ she said, kindly offering me...

There's evidence that the Uk ambassador to the US was acting as a commercial spy whilst a UK minister.

So why hasn't his homes/offices been raided?

Oh yeah. They need to give him time to shred/delete everything first.

Thank you. Yes. Not quite sure how it happened. Just know putting your hand to the earth here is healing.

Women behind the lens: ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’ Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, followed one girl’s tragic story

This photo and text hit me this morning. 14. Jesus wept.

Just wish the Guardian had given more space to the photojournalist/ Arti's story. Not the usual told with pity/victimhood perspective.

So much more humanising when agency is shown and then taken away.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Utterly mesmerised by this when it came out (visually and musically). Nothing else touches it.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

A reminder that change almost always comes at a cost. And care is often the missing piece of the puzzle imho. You care. 👏

Plate 17
From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
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Coniston, Cumbria
Copper deposits were mined in Coniston from the 16th century by the Company of Mines Royal, granted its charter by Elizabeth I. Thanks to the commercialisation of copper mining in the Elizabethan era, England no longer had to...

Stunning work Kristie 👏

Wide view of a drystone bench set into a curved stone wall on a grassy bank beside Loch Voil. The wall is built from mixed local stone with upright coping stones along the top. Leafless trees and a sloping hillside rise behind the bench.

Close-up of a drystone bench built into a low stone wall. The stones are layered in horizontal courses with upright coping stones on top. A thick wooden slab forms the seat, supported by projecting stones beneath. Grass and moss surround the base.

It is always good to revisit our builds. Photo from this morning, our drystone bench weathering beautifully on the banks of Loch Voil.

#Scotland #UK #Nature #Art #Sustainability

Brave. 👏

One of the students yesterday asked what he could do and my answer was something, anything. So many people are stuck waiting for someone else to take the first step. We we don't then who will.

I see someone at the Guardian had the decency to swap out the appalling original choice of image of Hannah Spencer, the Greens candidate for the Manchester by-election.

It’s weird that Trump can stand up to allies but not Russia

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Kristie the Bastard On women’s anger, imagination, and moral permission

I’ve just published a new piece of writing.

It’s a serious literary work that sits between essay and narrative, and it’s concerned with women’s anger and imagination in the aftermath of violence.

kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/kristie-th...

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women #Scotland

I was lucky enough to pick up my club's (Run Free Fell Runners) place in the London Marathon this year. So they'll be plenty of jogging/walking up and down these hills in the next four months.

I love these hills because my garden and living room looks out on them and if run on them I can look back across at my house. It's there in the second photo.

It's always a bit of a pinch myself moment looking across.

Cloud inversion. Snow. Sun. Mountains.

A few snaps from todays run.

Such a special place to live. Dee Valley.

A quick heads up folks that during a tidy up I've found 3 copies of my out of print book 'An Uncertain Path'.

If you missed it, then you can bag one quickly here anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/an-u... @anotherplacepress.bsky.social

As always, a massive thank you for your support folks! 🙏

Still a handful of copies left folks... 👇👀