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Fen Landscape

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Fen Landscape

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

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Fen Landscape: Cottenham, 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.

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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 (Ditton) Landscape

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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 – Cottenham Lode

Cottenham Lode during a very wet spring. Compare with post on 23rd August last year, the Lode during a very hot summer.

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

Walked out to Quy Fen from the Horningsea Road yesterday. Skylarks singing over vast fields of rape just coming into bloom; and disconsolate black cattle looking for grazing in a sticky sea of mud. Meadows around the coprolite workings water … Continue reading

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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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