Wordsworth's writing hut, at Rydal Mount. On a sheet of 4x5 film that managed, more or less, to withstand an enormous act of incompetence on my part and turn out quite interesting after all. #BelieveinFilm

It's been a while since I read them so I need reminding, but is this in one of Paul's letters to the Corinthians?

A small selection of my latest signed prints are now available at the Mersey Art Zone gallery in the Floral Pavilion New Brighton. £45 each. Please help support the gallery if you can, but otherwise these prints can also be purchased from my website alexisbutterfieldart.com. #Liverpool #Wirral #art

A few lovely folk have reached out and asked about a print of my half frame photograph. Prints are available for £12 inc P&P (UK only) overseas is available but price will be altered to reflect cost of P&P😊 #believeinfilm #printyourwork

Springtime walk in the woods with the Bronica. 📷 Bronica SQAi, 80mm 🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 100 ⚗️ Bellini Euro HC 1+31. #believeinfilm

Capturing Spring - Lake District Observations Photograph printed onto mulberry paper taken with Leica MA using Ilford HP5 and developed with DD-X. #believeinfilm #printyourwork

Anyone in or near Halifax on Thurs… come to the Piece Hall to celebrate 10 years of great books from @gritstonebooks.bsky.social . Meet the authors. Have a Piece of birthday cake. From 11am

Kathleen Lake - 2024 Leica M5 Ilford Pan F + The Yukon

That's the west coast mainline for you

Grounds for optimism, maybe.

At St James Cemetery, Liverpool 📷 Ilford Pixie II @ f6.4 🎞️ Ilford FP4 - Rodinal 1/50 15mins 20c #MerseyMeetUp #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

The river Rothay near Ambleside was walled into a canal in the 1870s, to drain the land for agriculture, but after heavy rain the old wriggling Rothay reappears next to it. I've been watching it for over a decade and I think the desire river is winning, slowly. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm

Well, look what’s about to appear in the world! With work from the collectively and individually fab @katharinenorbury.bsky.social @anitasethi.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social Josie Giles @helenmort.bsky.social Kate Davis Beatrice Searle Anna Fleming Linda Cracknell and Gail Simmons

Join us at our Ambleside campus one week today for this free talk on 'Vikings, Statesmen and Herdwicks: history and myth in the Lake District'. See link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃

This is from my "Wildwood" series. Ring barking involves removing a strip of bark all the way round a tree to kill it but leave it standing. The dead trunk becomes a home for insects and birds. This is Sitka Spruce, an invasive non-native tree. #Holga #BelieveInFilm

Bicycles by the canal in Utrecht, Netherlands (March 2026). #believeinfilm

An ICM multiple exposure shot (two photos) of the #bluebells, taken just after sunrise on Sunday at my favourite woods - my entry for this week's #ShareMondays2026.

No idea why this hasn't worked on the 1st post. It's all about FP4+ this week & the fantastic community on Bluesky #fp4party. (Thanks to @paulasmith.co.uk) These are our 5 favourites who will all receive some goodies www.ilfordphoto.com/friday-favou... Image @analoguelass.bsky.social

I watched The Matrix again this week, and of course the premise is that AI requires lots of power which means humans need to be farmed. For a film about Gen X workplace disillusionment and the nascent dot com boom it's surprisingly prescient.

The zine for Rebellion! is now available in my shop. It has 55 photos distilled down from 40,000 taken over the life of the project. I’m very pleased with the quality of the printing and hope you like it https://marcdavenant.com/product/rebellion-zine/

Proofing #FP4Party negatives #cyanotype

Here's my one and only image for #fp4party this time. Not made a #trichrome for a little while. Go big or go home? Ritter 7x17" 305mm G-Claron 3 x @ilfordphoto.com FP4+ ID-11 1+1 £45 of film in today money... #fridayfavourites #believeinfilm

We're now offering volunteer days at our new plant nursery. Help us grow trees & wildflowers to plant out in the valley. These days will be less physically demanding than our other volunteer days - but you will still enjoy fantastic views of the Duddon Valley. www.trybooking.com/uk/FZWG

The zine for Rebellion! is now with the printer. It has 56 pages and 55 photos in a mix of colour and monochrome, taken over 12 years. I’ve been really impressed with the quality of the proofs so hope it goes down well. It will be available in my shop from next week at a very reasonable price.

Every so often—for no particular reason—I feel compelled to post a gift link to the 11,000-word article I published in @theatlantic.com seven years ago about Donald Trump's mental disorders and how they rendered him unfit to serve as president. {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This week: Spring photos from 2023 I never got around to posting. Minolta CLE Voigtländer Norton 40mm F1.4 Kodak Portra 160 #believeinfilm #photography

This is horrifying.

Now printing for the pin-up version of the Rebellion! exhibition which opens in Newcastle in June. This one is recent, from the National Coal Mining Museum strike which remains ongoing. #Photography

Should be obvious, but apparently isn't. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm

in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned

Along with riding 1,000 miles in 7 days in 1934, London to John O'Groats in 4 1/2 days in 1935, and 10,000 miles in 100 days in 1938, Evelyn Hamilton's exploits include ferrying French Resistance fighters across Paris on a tandem during World War II. #BicycleBirthday April 3 (1906-2005)

Top day seeing l'al sis and the Cumberland/Westmorland wrestling exhibition at Grizedale! Including some amazing stuff from mates @chrisroutledge.bsky.social @lizziwake.bsky.social!

Dutch railway stations are usually super modern, but Haarlem is a lovely Art Nouveau design. All the waiting rooms and whatnot are on a central island platform. In that respect it's a bit like Preston, Lancashire. Unlike Preston it's beautifully maintained and is really very striking. #BelieveInFilm

I shared some thoughts about a double exposure roll I did recently. 👇 #filmphotography www.35mmc.com/28/03/2026/d...

Tidying up our cellar/utility room I find a wooden box with a corner nibbled off, and inside that a bag with a hole, and inside that another box that once held rat poison. #mice

Of interest to @chrisroutledge.bsky.social , @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social , @cumbriauk.bsky.social and others I hope...

Something here I just wrote on recording creative community, institutional memory and rural creativity as I begin to look back on 20 years of knowing Grasmere and the Wordsworth Trust, and 20 years of thinking about Romantic legacies and contemporary writers -

Based on the sign I reckon the facial recognition is a bloke pointing and saying "That's him!"

Went to Hardknott Forest today for the first time in a couple of months. Four sheets of film exposed, but I also took a digital camera, so here is a larch, on borrowed time, waking up regardless for another Spring. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. #photography #LakeDistrict

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.