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Snowdonia
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Snowdonia Mountains
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The snow-clad mountain lurching behind the tree at the top of this set of images is Tryfan, a mountain that has touched most of the outdoor-orientated folks I know in one way or another. I remember it for terrifying icy winter scrambles, oh, and watching my partner being helicopter-lifted from a decent route. A couple of friends will definitely remember the top of the mountain as the place they became engaged to be married. Another chap we know probably treats it with great respect after dislocating his shoulder on the way down. Once you have walked, scrambled or climbed the north ridge route of this hill, it distills the contradictory mix of outright respect and just plain rocky fun into everyone who passes that way.
The Sinister Snowman
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008The brief sunshine through the freezing cold today reminded me of one of my favourite poems by Wallace Stevens:
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Hamish
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Abstract Crete
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
It’s kinda hard to look beyond the sun-lounger beaches, terminally half-complete villas and sleepy tavernas of the Greek island of Crete for photographic inspiration. After a few days of wondering if I would take any photographs while on the island, I dropped any preconceived ideas and just enjoyed the little details…