Blog / Archive of November, 2013

Landreader Quiz #1

November 21st, 2013 | Posted in: Quizes

© Dominick Tyler 2013 Do you know your tombolo from your isthmus? Can you tell a hummock from a hillock? What would you do with a kiss tank? This quiz will put your landscape vocabulary to the...

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Thar she blows

November 20th, 2013 | Posted in: Field Trips, Images, Video

Let me just say that I do not advise putting your head into a spouting gloup. Gloup is a Scottish word for a blowhole, I like it better than plain blowhole but I think there might be better...

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Stara Woods

November 18th, 2013 | Posted in: Field Trips, Images, Video

This is one of my favourite places and has been since I was a small child. I'm really pleased that it's being so well looked after and managed as a community woodland so that many more small...

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Misty Mistor

November 13th, 2013 | Posted in: Images

I've been scanning the films from my field-trip to Devon and Cornwall and finding a few that don't relate to any particular landscape feature but which I shot anyway. This was from the morning I...

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Video: Dartmoor

November 12th, 2013 | Posted in: Field Trips, Video

Video is going to be a steep learning curve. I take back every criticism I yelled at any TV presenter. It turns out that talking sense to a camera is preternaturally difficult. I need to shoot a...

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Field Trip: Dartmoor

November 7th, 2013 | Posted in: Field Trips

Five cosy nights in the van, 600 miles driven, 10 tors climbed, two logans rocked, one mire sunk-into, four beaches wandered, two pasties and four saffron buns consumed and sixteen rolls of film...

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