Tag Archives: Cottenham

There is another gate opposite the entrance to the mineral workings.  It opens onto a concrete road that runs east across Chestnut Farm land to the Amey Waste Management Park, which is accessed from the A10.  This allows heavy vehicles … Continue reading →

I’ve been intrigued for several years by the embankment that has been thrown up along the east side of the Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham, as it approaches the bridge over the Great Ouse.  Signs on the top warn of deep … Continue reading →

Stroll down Broad Lane, Cottenham, after lunch yesterday.

Early morning walk along Broad Lane, Saturday 16th September 2023.

End of a beautiful Indian summer day at Great North Fen, Cottenham. Recalling Fay Godwin’s The Duke of Westminster’s Estate, Forest of Bowland, 1989.

The symmetry of potatoes, Great North Fen, Cottenham.

Broad Lane, Cottenham, after a passing storm, 10th May 2023.

I usually make my fen landscape photographs in black and white. Walking out along Broad Lane, Cottenham, on Saturday I was struck how the landscape seemed to be split between the brown tilled field at my feet and the overcast … Continue reading →

Smoke signals over Great North Fen.  The tell-tale black streamer of burning rubber.  The sign of someone who cares nothing for the environment.  A carbon trailer of our profligacy.  A pyre for the planet.