I just about caught the bluebells at the Bluebell Woods behind the Bleeding Wolf pub in Scholar Green. But they weren't as numerous or thick as previous years and it was hard to get a field of blue, so I tried something different. The result isn't 'great' but it is 'different', and I doubt you will see another shot like this. Were you aware that one manufacturer had been working on a camera design that would refuse to take a shot the same as anyone else? Good idea, but it would stuff a lot of landscape togs and instagramers who only try to tick off the honeypot shots with a big orange blob in the background without any imagination or flair for something different.
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I've always loved the profile of this pointy rock at Ramshaw. It had more white lichen on it than I had remembered it having when I lived in these parts. Wish I had had time to meet up with friends, but I easily forget people have jobs to do. A hot mug of coffee and a natter would have been nice though if I had been welcome
Tags: Ramshaw Rocks peak district stafforshire moorlands NowIknowthepiggiesareok
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t was very windy and very cold at Ramshaw Rocks. The road had been white with snow/hail between Buxton and Leek but I got a dose of fresh air and some dramatic views in readiness for 8+ hours dive home tomorrow to Acharacle.
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Castle Tioram was bought by a businessman for approximately £ 300 k. It's on a tidal island but accessible by a causeway at anything other than high tide. He wanted to invest millions in building a Clanranald visitor centre in the castle as castle Tioram has historical links with all the Macdonalds, and several other clans going back over 700 years to the Lord of the Isles, Somerled. The castle would have been developed as a major tourist attraction, a little like Eilean Donan it's more famous sister near Skye. But the owner of the landward side, The Loch Shiel Estates, with absentee brother and sister landlords refused him access to the castle to develop it. They are the same people who refused me to stand Gordon the black stag on their land too, for various feeble excuses
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Found way out in Kentra Bay at low tide was what I thought was an old cast iron oven, being used as an anchor because of its weight. There was a whole marine habitat inside it.
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