Today’s word of interest is “Dunkelflaute“, formed by combining “Dunkelheit” (darkness) and “Windflaute” (little wind) to describe heavy overcast skies and light wind conditions. As you may have noticed, UK weather has been in this condition for a number of days now – in meteorological parlance, an anticyclonic…
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It’s almost the end of a very strange and confining year. I usually get about the Southwest a bit, but have spent most of this year very close to home. So, my online advent calendar for my friends and followers this year is firmly local – views east…
It’s that time of year again, when leaves blow onto wet pavements or roads, and form accidental compositions for people to walk past unseeing, except for us dedicated band of sidewalk spotters (we are all over the place, hidden in plain sight!). If you see someone aiming their…
… to take a lyric from the song popularised by many artists, though I usually think of Tony Bennet’s version. We try to walk down in Lyme Regis every morning before breakfast (a practice that may come to an end once the winter weather sets in) – something…
The sky’s been very much in my thoughts recently – life on the ground has been quite trying so looking heavenwards has been a welcome distraction. This particular set of images has two very contrasting elements. The urban sky above the Barbican in central London on the 20th…
What a difference a month makes – at the start of February, we were admiring a snowfall, and now at the end we’ve been basking in improbably warm sunshine for several days. There is an indefinable sense that things are on the change – winter is receding fast…
The elements have been kind to the photographer these past couple of days. Living near the sea, we rarely get much snow, and in fact there was only 2-3cms in the garden. But as a diversion from a grocery shopping trip, I stopped at our local nature reserve…