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The southern Pennines at the high point between Sheffield and Manchester on Friday. Lovely sight on a late-summer day; rather scary when driving back on a mid-winter night.

 

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George Osborne's Northern Powerhouse (formerly known as Manchester). Not sure how many minimum wage hard-working families live in the flats round the quays (or can afford the tickets to The Lowry that we middle class types eat up).  Eee, it warn't like this when I were a lad.

Journey back across the Peak District from Manchester to Nottingham:

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Middle one there is Arkwright's first mill at Cromford from the 1770s, now claimed (amongst other competing sites) as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. I cut my teeth there as a young teacher taking history field trips in 1980. Despite lots of promises and lots of money it's still in much the same dilapidated state as 35 years ago...except it has tea shops, places to buy lavender smelly things and a few people in fancy dress spinning. Very nice to walk by the canal though which seems to have more trees than I remember. 

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Lovely one from the BBC weather site:

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"A glimpse of the rising sun," Arlene Towriss describes her photo taken on 9th September at Castlerigg, Cumbria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34184907

And from the same site:

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Beautiful landscape shot of the Buttermere Valley, Cumbria on 4th September. Photo by Mike Whorley.

Colours a bit odd on the last one - looks like a postcard from the 50s. 

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Pennsylvania, USA: The end of a fishing trip on Briar Creek Lake.

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Melbourne, Australia: Tightrope artist Kane Petersen successfully walks 300 metres above the ground at the Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne.

Now there's a way to admire a cityscape.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/sep/16/photo-highlights-of-the-day

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Dark sky over a coastline Atmospheric evening light in Rhosneigr, Anglesey on 14th September. Photo by Phil Taylor.

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These seagulls seem unfazed by the crashing waves in Eastbourne on 15th September. Photo by Adam Ransom.

This was what Debussy was on about.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34256903

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Finally got up to Haworth yesterday. Didn't spend long in the town which is Ye Olde Tea Shoppe City (with everything from estate agents to motor garages named Bronte or Heathcliffe) but after an overcast morning got some nice sunny spells on the moors:

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First time I've seen an English footpath sign with Japanese subtitles! 

Sadly no courting couples communicating their ardour in semaphore to be seen. 

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Finally got up to Haworth yesterday. Didn't spend long in the town which is Ye Olde Tea Shoppe City (with everything from estate agents to motor garages named Bronte or Heathcliffe) but after an overcast morning got some nice sunny spells on the moors:

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First time I've seen an English footpath sign with Japanese subtitles! 

 

The station at Oxenholme in Cumbria used to have signs indicating platforms for London, Scotland and the Lake District in both English and Japanese. Last time I was there they were in English only. Drop in tourist numbers or rise of UKIP?

Some beautiful photos there, Bev.

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Thanks Bill. All down to the landscape itself - my skills are rudimentary. 

Back in the days of film I had an SLR where you could see the depth of field as you turned the appropriate thing-a-me-bob. Can't seem to do this with my digital camera. As a result I end up with way too many with ugly (as opposed to planned) out-of-focus areas. 

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This is nice:

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2015/sep/19/eyewitness-vale-of-york#img-1

As is this:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/34256903

You see some real skill there. If I'd have taken it I'd have got either a bleached out sky or an over-dark foreground. Going to have to explore how to handle that. I'm too reliant on bright sunshine.  

Finally, somewhere close to my heart:

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The beach at Gwithian in Cornwall

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Not quite landscapes but elements thereof:

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Berlin, Germany: Water droplets glisten on grass in Tiergarten, one of the capital’s largest parks

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/sep/18/photo-highlights-of-the-day

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The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2015 winners: Overall winner and habitat category: Barrie Williams, 'On the Edge', northern gannets, Shetland Isles, Scotland

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/sep/14/the-british-wildlife-photography-awards-2015-winners-in-pictures

That last one immediately has me thinking of Pink Floyd's 'Echoes'. 

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Some lovely early days of autumn shots from The Guardian website:

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/sep/23/first-day-of-autumn-in-pictures-autumnal-equinox

You've been able to see the leaves changing over the last week or so. I was in Sheffield yesterday and the place was alive with freshers queuing up to register for university - the season and those (very, very young) kids really stirred the memory pot.   

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2015/sep/24/eyewitness-autumn-equinox-penrith-cumbria

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A misty Meon Valley from Beacon Hill Nature Reserve, photographed by Barrie Webb.

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A beautiful sunrise over the outskirts of Johnstown, Carmarthen photographed by D.G Hales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/pictures/34338438

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Ordos, Mongolia - The starry sky above Kubuqi desert

 http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/sep/22/photo-highlights-of-the-day

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Lah di dah, lah di dah, 'tis autumn...

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I travel all over seeking out nice landscapes...but sometimes you need to just look in your own neighbourhood. 

 

Nice! Particularly like the one with the furrows.

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Don't know if you noticed this, Bill, but I'm much more aware of the incremental changes of the seasons now I'm not at work all day. I was thrown back to being a kid on the lane in that last picture when I saw a horse chestnut ready to drop.

At work I'd notice the gorgeous colours of autumn in the morning/evening drive but my brain was so full of other things that it was just an passing impression. Having time just seems to make me more aware of it all.  

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Don't know if you noticed this, Bill, but I'm much more aware of the incremental changes of the seasons now I'm not at work all day. 

Well, the seasons don't get much of a chance to penetrate into this part of the world ...

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Seriously though, I commuted 22 miles to work each day, most of it by train and some of it through countryside, so I was always aware of the seasons. 

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