Robin Cooper

This is lovely 🖤🤍🖤🤍

Three minutes of pictures of Coniston, taken this year. Well it was yet another wet day, what else could I do 😂

Some images from the gardens at John Ruskin’s Brantwood this morning.

On the lake shore this morning at the head of Coniston Water, on my way to Brantwood.

Coppermines Valley, Coniston. The colours and the atmosphere. The essence of place in a photograph.

I’ve been experimenting With intentional camera movement again. I guess it’s more about capturing the essence of a place, rather than a precise representation.

There’s something almost fairytale like about this cottage hidden deep in the woods. The door, with names and initials carved in it from as far back as 125 years ago, only adds to the magic.

In Roudsea Woods this morning, I came across these ‘Dancing Trees’. Wasn’t that a song by ABBA? 🤔

A detail from the mountain around Levers Water, above Coniston.

It seems that herdwicks are partial to a little Heather 😊

Plenty of water here in Coniston 😳

The fascinating remnants of a long extinct copper mining industry on the fells above Coniston.

I often wondered why it was called Blue Quarry. Long since abandoned, but where rock falls from the quarry face, the exposed ‘new’ rock shows its true colour.

A wren and a robin that were hoping around in the quarry this morning.

Out on the Coniston Fells on a magnificent morning 😊

I took a photo from this same place last week, but today I returned with a tripod. Ok, it’s just an excuse, you’ve found me out. I just love being in the Coppermines Valley 😊

First I liked the wavy pattern of the rock, but I also liked the shadow cast by the ivy. Then I thought “why not feature them both together 😊

Very atmospheric conditions this morning at Levers Water in the Coniston Fells.

Coppermines Valley just above Coniston, when the sun came out this afternoon.

I couldn’t resist a photo of the moon as it rose in the eastern sky over Coniston this evening. Not a full moon, that was last night, the Harvest Moon.

I always enjoy the walk from Coniston to Little Langdale, but this section through Moss Rigg Wood is the part I enjoy most.

Just because I really like this pastel of Bob Dylan that I had given, I thought I would share it here. 😊 “The times they are a changing”.

I may be developing something of a disused quarry obsession. I wonder if there’s a name for it 🤔

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I’ve just realised it’s Friday 🤣 #fingerpostfriday

There’s so much to see in a big rocky hole 😊

I had a fascinating afternoon in the old quarry at Hodge Close, mainly photographing rock and enjoying the total silence that comes with being at the bottom of a big hole 😊

From yesterday’s foray into foraging territory 😊 Roudsea nature reserve.

Some wonderful old Yew trees in Roudsea Woods.

I think this might be a Trooping Funnel, but I’m not a fungi expert by any means. Other opinions always welcome 😊

Some of the fungi seen in Roudsea Woods, on the side of the Leven estuary are this morning.

What if it doesn’t quack like a duck… what then?

Some nice fungi in the woods this morning 😊

Another week at Bryn Mel almost at an end. Back soon I hope 😊

Whatever you choose to do, enjoy your weekend 😊

The extraordinary colourful landscape that is Parys Mountain Coppermines on Anglesey.

A walk to Porth Wen brickworks on Anglesey. Silica was mined just back from the shoreline to make fire bricks which were all taken out by sea. The site was operating between 1950 and 1949.

A walk around The Dingle at Llangefni this morning, to see red squirrels.

Porth Eilian, Ynys Mon, this morning.

A walk out to Point Lynas on Anglesey this morning where I was lucky enough to spot dolphins and porpoise. Apparently dolphins aren’t friendly towards porpoises, but there were definitely both there for a while.

Four replacement, limited edition prints, delivered to Coniston Fudge, Gifts & Gallery. They have a selection of 50 of my prints to choose from.

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An old drystone wall, covered in all sorts of life. The second picture is a lichen that was growing there. Its common name is Devil’s Matchsticks.

A small section of the Cumbria Way as it leaves Coniston, heading towards Langdale.

Groynes on the northern shore of Morecambe Bay.

A change of location for me today. This is the RNLI lifeboat station at Roa Island, Barrow.

Just a short walk from my front door yesterday afternoon. Following the stream, up through the wood and out onto open fields.