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…

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social 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

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 📚🍄🍃

I think I may have found @hookland.bsky.social 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.

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. #BelieveinFilm

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...

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 📚

Bulb. #AlphabetChallenge #BonusHomonym

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.

Good advice.

Store Windows - Olympus Pen FT with FPP Wolfman 100 developed in FPP-110 1+31 for 6 minutes #smalltown #filmphotography

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

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...

Have been channelling @analoguelass.bsky.social making Lake District diptychs. Here is some street photography. #BelieveinFilm #LakeDIstrict #ThePark

Here's a thing about the recent Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group trip to Tilberthwaite. cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/02/12/t...

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 #LakeDistrict #BelieveinFilm

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.

it's *always* the women. always.

‘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🍃

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...

Great thread illustrating how crap AI is

It's going to be one of those days. #stormchandra

“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...

A lovely eclectic list to be part of. Thank you , @waterstones.bsky.social

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.

Canning Dock #MerseyMeetUp 📷 Nikon F6 - 24/85mm Zoom 🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

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 #BelieveInFilm #Photography #4x5 #Trichrome 1/3

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."

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...

Duddon Valley, Cumbria. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm

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.

“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...

Northern publishing co-op makes its mark The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary By Andrew Bibby

Start off your week with something sweet and humane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-f...

You ain't seen me, right?

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.

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 #filmphotography

Photographs of the Arctic in the 1880s by self-styled glaciologist, Frenchman Charles Rabot: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic

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. #LakeDistrict

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.

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/

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...

We are beset by little birds. This posse was right outside the front door, monitoring our activities.

Capturing silence and synchronising with the environment - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX #believeinfilm #filmphotography

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...

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.

Daughter just found this picture from a holiday in Wales ten years ago. She is wearing a helmet, because safety first.

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.