Photography Thread
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The thing I like about the meteociel one is that it just splurges out the raw forecasts from each model with no interpretation, so you can see by the divergence or not the confidence. On the downside it doesn't update hourly like the Met Office graphic forecasts do, so you miss that bit of confidence-rating: the days when the MO varies wildly from hour to hour you know that they really don't have much of a clue on the specifics.
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Yes, definitely could be worse. I shall be walking on this mountain after lunch... photo taken about two minutes ago from my front door.
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I don’t find Clear Outside that good. There’s been quite a few times when it has shown lots of cloud but then it’s ended up clear and I’ve missed a chance. It seems to go very cautious on the cloud prediction.
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I think that this is the problem with sites that synthesise the models: they are making an interpretation and giving you just one answer. (Met Office do exactly the same, of course.)
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No exciting weather here, but did spot a heron on the Wandle with a large trout.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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#snowtastic!!!!
The heavy snow up top yesterday and the mistral combined to give a spindrift like I've never seen before from the top of the mountain (2000m).
Looks like I don't need to worry about finding snow for my picnic tomorrow, but I must remember to take my microspikes, as the steep bit of the ascent today was rather snowier and more slippery than I anticipated, with a few comedy moments.
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Lack of snow possibly leaves more definition.
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That looks like a sizeable fish for a heron to get down its pencil neck. Did it manage?
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Marvellous mountains! The spindrift does add to it.
Operation find something colourful. Gloomy or what.
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Oh, best I could do with moving water, once I'd dropped below the snow line... need to remember that at the winter solstice, the sun shines right up this valley at about 3pm, and the low light is good, albeit a bit bright today for any longer an exposure.
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Defo #snowporn today. Just as well the snow wasn't any deeper up at 1000m or I'd have needed raquettes. The planets aligned. I think that might even be a golden eagle. The HDR came into its own for the snow shots.
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A non festive abstract woodland shot with the lichen highlighting the branch shapes.
The last storm has sadly toppled many of the large old beech trees, causing a domino effect, taking others down with them. A right mess with more gaps than trees in places.
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Sad when that happens, but I suspect that the botanists will tell you (like the forest fire here) that it's good for the forest in the longer term. Just looks sad for quite a long time... the full recovery time is measured in several decades, but one can enjoy the green shoots of recovery in the meantime.
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These woods are narrow and steep sided and possibly not large enough to recover from the sustained wind damage year on year. Once the canopy is opened the wind does more damage with each subsequent storm.
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In which case I guess it'll take on a new form over time, with species that are less prone to storm damage.
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Yes, hopefully. The soil/ground doesn't look very stable for the larger trees.
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Nature generally has a way of exploiting opportunities when they come along, even it's at the expense of other species. The problems tend to persist when humans try to intervene to hang onto something that is unsustainable in the long term.
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True.
Human intervention hasn’t worked as far as the natural world is concerned. It makes me laugh when nature is described as ‘fragile’. Billions of years of life on Earth suggest otherwise, but the sixth extinction event (holocene extinction) is here. Whether we survive it, who knows, but ‘fragile’ nature certainly will.
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Lots of food for invertebrates and fungi, from the decaying fallen trees and gaps in the canopy will let more light in giving an opportunity for plants at ground level. Some species can also carry on growing after they've fallen, provided there's enough roots still in the ground.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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In large virgin forests left undisturbed that is correct. In small UK woods, fast growing non-native (introduced) species will take over (J knotweed, rhododendron, sycamore) in the openings, hence the need for management if woodlands are to continue supporting native flora.
UK tree cover is pitiful and having mostly lost ash trees to ash dieback disease, is rapidly worsening. Factor in all biodiversity in the UK and it’s a grim picture (one of the world's worst).
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Anyway, back to joli-er things, Frosty the Snowman visited overnight.
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UK forest cover is now roughly what it was in 1350, and double what it was in 1900.
Granted, invasive species need to be managed, but the Sycamore has been in the UK for at least 500 years. There isn't really a fixed point in the past that defines some ideal mix of flora and fauna. We already have lots of species that only exist in man made cultivated environments.
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I know we're going OT with this, but it's always amusing to me as to how much human intervention is needed to maintain the 'wilderness' of Dartmoor. I must admit I'm conflicted about how much intervention there should be to resist 'alien' invasions (be they floral or faunal), but often the interventions have Canute-like vibes.
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Find your nearest ancient/semi-natural woodland here.
I assume there is a sister map for Wales.
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The thistle has come out nicely and interesting framing/light on the fourth shot.
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It's true everyone does go for a walk on Boxing day. Matchstick men and matchstick
cats anddogs.
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Love the first shot... the three people with surfboards make it.
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Cheers. I waited a while for a good moment and was lucky with the surfers entering the scene. Taken at a distance off the beach
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Nice spot!
Them walking perpendicular to everyone else is a nice juxtaposition.
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