Beaches are places of intertidal liminality. Transient, impermanent and ever changing. To be the first person to walk on the sands as the tide retreats, is to find the world remade.
Cairnholy II: The Tomb of Galdus. A Neolithic Chambered Tomb, around which swirls tales of the mythical King Galdus and of Bishops of Galloway killed in battle.
A freezing cold evening at Drumtroddan Rock Art. By daylight, the carvings are hardly distinguishable, but once dark enough to light them at an angle, they jump out of the rock.
One of the enduring mysteries of Northern Britain is that of British Prehistoric Rock Art. These panels are at Drumtroddan in Galloway, with views to the nearby stone row, the Isle of Man and the Galloway Hills. #StandingStoneSunday#Scotland#History#Galloway
Alignments of standing stones, mythical beasts, kings and giants engaged in dimly remembered battles, the landscape of the British Isles is filled with memories. This collection of photographs and poetry is an exploration of place and our relationship with the landscape and nature around us. My first book is now available from Kindle Direct and it's only £3.99!
Who measures time in these high places?
The call of grouse and lapwing?
The flowering of the heather?
The pulse of rain and snow?
The ebb and flow of mist?
The rise and set of sun and moon?
These places are beyond time.
Beyond our fragile understanding.
This mid-18th century folly was built at Wentworth Woodhouse by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, reputedly to win a drunken wager claiming he could, "drive a coach and horses through an eye of a needle".
The Aiggin Stone, close to Blackstone Edge. A medieval waymarker, on a packhorse route, overlaying a Roman road, crossing the Pennines. It was once much taller, but has been diminished by numerous falls.
