Chris Routledge
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Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement.
https://chrisroutledge.pictures
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Plashing Vole
1 day ago
This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…
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Just wanted to thank you for recommending Shute's On the Beach a while back. Finished it today; it certainly resonated with the current lunacy. Quite a novel
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
11 days ago
I am overjoyed to have appeared at the wonderful Words by the Water festival today, in this the festival’s 25th anniversary year, to talk about my new book, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’. Thank you to the festival organisers and to all who attended and made the event so very special 📚🍄🍃
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Stiles
14 days ago
I think I may have found
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repository. I can't possibly put an alt text on these videos. Have you ever found the St Kilda wool
@tutty352.bsky.social
? There are four in total, and a picture of the mill from outside at the end. Excuse heavy breathing, I ran there.
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Selside, North Yorkshire, January 2026. It was a bitterly cold, damp day when I took this and I can feel it now when I look at it.
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Innocent holiday makers surprised to learn Abu Dhabi is in the Middle East: 'Nikki added: “It just makes you realise how volatile the area can be.”'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘It was surreal’: holidaymakers on first flight out of Abu Dhabi describe petrifying experience
Hundreds of thousands of passengers have found themselves stranded in the middle of a conflict between Iran and its Gulf neighbours
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/holidaymakers-first-flight-out-of-abu-dhabi-describe-petrifying-experience
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
26 days ago
Thanks largely to work undertaken by MA graduate
@suewilkinson.bsky.social
, today an important collection of archive material by the early 20thC Cumbrian poet, Margaret Cropper was handed over to The Armitt Library & Museum by her executors, where it will be available for future scholars to study 📚
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Paula ⚪️
26 days ago
Bulb.
#AlphabetChallenge
#BonusHomonym
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Signs of Spring: four lads in waterlogged urban sportswear stuck on the other side of the river (stepping stones submerged) in an epic rain shower.
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Good advice.
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Steve Brokaw
about 1 month ago
Store Windows - Olympus Pen FT with FPP Wolfman 100 developed in FPP-110 1+31 for 6 minutes
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RSPB
about 1 month ago
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
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Deborah Parkin
about 1 month ago
I have just written a blog about my approach to photographing my Horse series. If you have the time, I would really appreciate you stopping by. I have had a few technical problems with sentences going for a walk but hopefully it will be ok.
deborahparkinphotography.blogspot.com/2026/02/i-ha...
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Slowing Down. Photographing my Horse series. I have been seeing a new trend lately - 'Slow reading' - in which we are invited to read along ...
https://deborahparkinphotography.blogspot.com/2026/02/i-have-been-seeing-new-trend-lately.html
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Have been channelling
@analoguelass.bsky.social
making Lake District diptychs. Here is some street photography.
#BelieveinFilm
#LakeDIstrict
#ThePark
about 1 month ago
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Pete Martin
about 1 month ago
Here's a thing about the recent Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group trip to Tilberthwaite.
cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/02/12/t...
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Tilberthwaite pt 2 lichen trip report 7 February 2026
Eleven months on, we returned to Tilberthwaite. Last time we visited the old mine workings, this time the woods were our destination. We made short work of the journey from the car park; the rivers...
https://cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/02/12/tilberthwaite-pt-2-lichen-trip-report-7-february-2026/
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Have spent part of this week installing the Wrestle exhibition (formerly at The Florence, Egremont) at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre. You can see it there until May.
#Wrestle
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Amazingly, Julian Cooper offered me my first solo photography exhibition, at the Archive Gallery in Grasmere in 2019. Apart from being a very thoughtful, imaginative, and accomplished landscape painter, he's also a highly amusing fellow to be around, with a dry wit of the best kind.
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Katie Martin
about 1 month ago
it's *always* the women. always.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
about 2 months ago
‘How shall I paint thee?’ (William Wordsworth’). A brilliant talk by
@chrisroutledge.bsky.social
this evening on the evolving landscape of the Lake District and how we can explore and tell its layered and complex history through photography and art🍃
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Longbarrow Press
about 2 months ago
A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with £2 off until tomorrow:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Deborah Parkin
about 2 months ago
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Julia Pirotte (1908-2000)
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https://open.substack.com/pub/deborahparkin/p/julia-pirotte-1908-2000?r=e2c4h&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Lynne Murphy
about 2 months ago
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Deborah Cameron obituary
Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jan/28/deborah-cameron-obituary
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Katie Martin
about 2 months ago
Great thread illustrating how crap AI is
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It's going to be one of those days.
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about 2 months ago
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RK Photographic / Rob Knight
about 2 months ago
“London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious “pea-soupers”. This presented difficulties for early “orthochromatic” photographic emulsions, which were insensitive to orange and red.”
theconversation.com/how-romantic...
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How romanticised images of London fog shaped the way we see polluted air
London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious ‘pea-soupers’.
https://theconversation.com/how-romanticised-images-of-london-fog-shaped-the-way-we-see-polluted-air-272851
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Eileen Jones
about 2 months ago
A lovely eclectic list to be part of. Thank you ,
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Cool Bike Art
2 months ago
Christian Adam of Lübeck, Germany, holds the current world record for cycling backwards with a violin: 60.45 kilometers (37.56 miles) in 5 hours, 9 minutes.
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Stig
4 months ago
Canning Dock
#MerseyMeetUp
📷 Nikon F6 - 24/85mm Zoom 🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23
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Bill Thoo
2 months ago
Sydney 2026 New Years Fireworks trichromes Fomapan 400 sheetswith red filter FP4 sheets with green filter Catlabs 80ii sheets with blue filter Ondu Eikan 4x5 + Nikkor 135/5.6 Each sheet 15sec at f5.6 Combined in Ps
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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. "There are two places to hunt grouse: ordinary places, and Adams County."
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I've been thinking a lot about the Duddon valley recently, not least because I'm giving a talk about photographing Hardknott Forest at the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus on February 3rd. Details here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
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Duddon Valley, Cumbria.
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Tom Cox
2 months ago
I am slightly in awe of this photo taken of my grandparents just as they were about to casually ride a tandem on a 500+ mile round trip from their home in Nottingham to Devon, as if that is something you could just do really easily in 1948 on your week off from the factories where you worked.
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Ray Newman
2 months ago
“They love to hear us talk, explain our gelato flavors. We are the funny-talking people who explain flavors. They are the protagonists of history; we are not. They are slow because they are the main characters; they own their time. They own time.”
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial
How American tourists took over everything.
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/american-tourists-rome
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Yorkshire Bylines
2 months ago
Northern publishing co-op makes its mark The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary By Andrew Bibby
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Northern publishing co-op makes its mark
The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/northern-publishing-co-op-makes-its-mark/?fsp_sid=3727
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Merlin Mann
2 months ago
Start off your week with something sweet and humane.
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Shy interviewer asks Michael Sheen the BEST question 💛 | The Assembly - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-f07KT_jo
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You ain't seen me, right?
2 months ago
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John Abernathy
2 months ago
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Sam Johnson
2 months ago
My favourite image from 2025 using
@ilfordphoto.com
Ilford HP5 developed with DDX at box speed. Taken at the beginning of Spring using my Pentax 17 it is part of a piece of work capturing light in the landscape.
#fridayfavourites
#2025fave
#believeinfilm
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The Public Domain Review
3 months ago
Photographs of the Arctic in the 1880s by self-styled glaciologist, Frenchman Charles Rabot:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic
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I happened to be passing so I dropped in at the Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick this morning and there was *nobody else there* for a few minutes. This very rare phenomenon only occurs when the sun and the moon are in a very specific position relative to each other.
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2 months ago
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Davenant 📸
2 months ago
Working on the final report for
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
on the Outsiders exhibition and the numbers look good. We estimated 20,000 visitors and ended up with 120,000. The exhibition was shown for around 520 days and averaged 230 visitors per day across the tour. The grant was key to this.
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Polly Atkin
2 months ago
Events updates! First up - a
@bars.bsky.social
digital panel on Jan 14th, 5pm - with Anneke Lubkowkitz, Annie Rutherford, Abi Palmer and me talking about Romantic era writers, disability, walking, landscape and queerness.
pollyatkin.com/events/
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Future Events Wednesday 14th Jan, 5pm, Walking Forward with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth – an online panel for The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) –…
https://pollyatkin.com/events/
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
2 months ago
The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will take place on Tue 3 Feb. It will be a free talk by
@chrisroutledge.bsky.social
on 'Restoring Hardknott Forest: Photographing "Wildwood" in the Duddon Valley'. See here for further details & to book a place:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
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We are beset by little birds. This posse was right outside the front door, monitoring our activities.
3 months ago
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Sam Johnson
3 months ago
Capturing silence and synchronising with the environment - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot
European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/20/sausage-meat-lobby-europe-plant-based-name?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Tom Cox
3 months ago
Thing is, I know some people will get angry that I've reposted this, but from it I will probably gain 40ish followers & one of them might buy one of my books then read it in 2034 & tell their friends about it, leading to the knock-on effect that my books earn me a full-time living prior to my death.
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Daughter just found this picture from a holiday in Wales ten years ago. She is wearing a helmet, because safety first.
3 months ago
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We seem to be at the "driving past No Entry Except for Access signs looking for parking and then turning round and driving back because there is no parking" stage of the Christmas holidays. Will update when we reach the "parking in the field despite the Do Not Park in the Field" signs stage.
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