Tag Archives: Fen Landscape

Fen Landscape?

Watercoulourist painting landscape with cows at Landbeach. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as fen landscape. Maybe just about.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

The symmetry of potatoes, Great North Fen, Cottenham.

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Fen? Landscape

I’m not sure whether this qualifies as fen landscape. Its name notwithstanding, Fen Ditton is at best fen edge and has been nearly swallowed by Cambridge. Ditton comes from Old English dīċ (‘ditch, trench, moat’) + tūn (‘enclosure; settlement’).

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham Lode and Horse Chestnuts

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Fen Landscape – Broad Lane

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

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Fen Landscape – North Fen Flag

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

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Fen Landscape – North Fen Fire

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.

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Fen Landscape – November

No sun — no moon!No morn — no noon —No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member —No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —November! Thomas Hood

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

New go-down fence at Quy Fen.

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Fen landscape – Cottenham

Soft early morning shadows at Great North Fen, Cottenham. Note healthy level of water in the Lode – compare with picture posted 23rd August 2022

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Fen Landscape – Broad Lane

4th October 2022.  Mid-afternoon walk along Broad Lane, Cottenham, across Great North Fen as far as Archie’s Bridge (Archie was a horse).  It’s about 1.1 miles, so no great distance, but always a pleasure: far horizons; changing crops; vast, ever-varying … Continue reading

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New Ponds, Cottenham

Three new shallow pond have been dug at the end of the dog-walking area off Broad Lane, Cottenham.  They are still completely dry, which is no surprise seeing the wide cracks in the surrounding meadow – there is now water … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

There are not many days when a walk along Broad Lane across Great North Fen, Cottenham, doesn’t produce something of interest.

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham Lode

I wasn’t sure whether to post this picture under fen landscape or only colour.  The Lode has been drying out for weeks now and on the 19th the last trace of water at the Broad Lane bridge had disappeared.  But … Continue reading

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Fen landscape – Cottenham

August evening walks out along Broad Lane after the harvest.

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