David Abbott

Notes

Topic: Place

May squared

May 16, 2025

Can't get enough of this May.

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Travel
  • Photography

May

May 07, 2025

Spring is another country

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  • Landscape
  • Travel
  • Photography

I like to pretend I accept the ambivalence of landscape but really I expect some subjectivity from it. I want its blessing, its confirmations, it’s healing powers. I want the right configuration of hedges, trees just so.

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  • Place
  • Writing
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography

Barn Wood

March 21, 2025

Barn Wood is full of wood anemones, a patchy blanket of expectant white faces pointed towards any break in the forest canopy.

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  • Place
  • Writing
  • Nature

Islanded

March 18, 2025

On the shore that first day were ocean-pocked plastic buoys, steel oil drums, nylon rope, hemp rope. A toilet seat.

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Travel
  • Writing

East Anglia

January 28, 2025

A two day trip east at the tail of last year to Suffolk and Norfolk

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  • Place
  • Photography
  • Travel

Interior

January 22, 2025

Dust doesn’t settle here but thickens the air like cornflour.

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  • Place
  • Travel
  • Writing

Severnland

December 17, 2024

A Severnland circular

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Photography

Wells

November 30, 2024

I spent the last afternoon in November walking around and around Wells Cathedral.

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  • Place
  • Photography
  • Travel

Worcester

November 27, 2024

November visit to Worcester cathedral

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  • Place
  • Photography
  • Travel

Places form

November 24, 2024

Places as the interaction between the physical and the soulful

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  • Landscape
  • Nature

Shooting in the dark

November 20, 2024

The small car park at the start of the Ridgeway is half full of camper vans. No one is stirring at 6:45am and there are no other walkers when I bounce the car over the uneven surface of the car park, grab my camera and start up the ancient track.

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Travel
  • Writing

Snowshill

November 02, 2024

Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade's house in Gloucestershire and Gloucester Cathedral.

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  • Place
  • Photography
  • Travel

October song

October 24, 2024

Sunrise mid-October, Hunter's Moon, Cornwall

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  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Travel

Lights

September 30, 2024

Nighttime starlights of boats constellate, strung festively along the invisible horizon.

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  • Place
  • Writing