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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 2h

Coppermines Valley, Coniston. The colours and the atmosphere. The essence of place in a photograph.

Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’ve been experimenting With intentional camera movement again. I guess it’s more about capturing the essence of a place, rather than a precise representation.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There’s something almost fairytale like about this cottage hidden deep in the woods. The door, with names and initials carved in it from as far back as 125 years ago, only adds to the magic.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In Roudsea Woods this morning, I came across these ‘Dancing Trees’. Wasn’t that a song by ABBA? 🤔

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A detail from the mountain around Levers Water, above Coniston.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It seems that herdwicks are partial to a little Heather 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plenty of water here in Coniston 😳

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fascinating remnants of a long extinct copper mining industry on the fells above Coniston.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The quarry is known locally as Blue Quarry and is high up on the right hand side of the Coppermines valley as you go up the valley.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I often wondered why it was called Blue Quarry. Long since abandoned, but where rock falls from the quarry face, the exposed ‘new’ rock shows its true colour.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A wren and a robin that were hoping around in the quarry this morning.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Out on the Coniston Fells on a magnificent morning 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I took a photo from this same place last week, but today I returned with a tripod. Ok, it’s just an excuse, you’ve found me out. I just love being in the Coppermines Valley 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

First I liked the wavy pattern of the rock, but I also liked the shadow cast by the ivy. Then I thought “why not feature them both together 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very atmospheric conditions this morning at Levers Water in the Coniston Fells.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coppermines Valley just above Coniston, when the sun came out this afternoon.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I couldn’t resist a photo of the moon as it rose in the eastern sky over Coniston this evening. Not a full moon, that was last night, the Harvest Moon.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always enjoy the walk from Coniston to Little Langdale, but this section through Moss Rigg Wood is the part I enjoy most.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just because I really like this pastel of Bob Dylan that I had given, I thought I would share it here. 😊 “The times they are a changing”.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may be developing something of a disused quarry obsession. I wonder if there’s a name for it 🤔

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s so much to see in a big rocky hole 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a fascinating afternoon in the old quarry at Hodge Close, mainly photographing rock and enjoying the total silence that comes with being at the bottom of a big hole 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From yesterday’s foray into foraging territory 😊 Roudsea nature reserve.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some wonderful old Yew trees in Roudsea Woods.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think this might be a Trooping Funnel, but I’m not a fungi expert by any means. Other opinions always welcome 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some of the fungi seen in Roudsea Woods, on the side of the Leven estuary are this morning.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What if it doesn’t quack like a duck… what then?

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some nice fungi in the woods this morning 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another week at Bryn Mel almost at an end. Back soon I hope 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whatever you choose to do, enjoy your weekend 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The extraordinary colourful landscape that is Parys Mountain Coppermines on Anglesey.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A walk to Porth Wen brickworks on Anglesey. Silica was mined just back from the shoreline to make fire bricks which were all taken out by sea. The site was operating between 1950 and 1949.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A walk around The Dingle at Llangefni this morning, to see red squirrels.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Porth Eilian, Ynys Mon, this morning.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A walk out to Point Lynas on Anglesey this morning where I was lucky enough to spot dolphins and porpoise. Apparently dolphins aren’t friendly towards porpoises, but there were definitely both there for a while.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Four replacement, limited edition prints, delivered to Coniston Fudge, Gifts & Gallery. They have a selection of 50 of my prints to choose from.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve the wall, where trees grow tall.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An old drystone wall, covered in all sorts of life. The second picture is a lichen that was growing there. Its common name is Devil’s Matchsticks.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A small section of the Cumbria Way as it leaves Coniston, heading towards Langdale.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Groynes on the northern shore of Morecambe Bay.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A change of location for me today. This is the RNLI lifeboat station at Roa Island, Barrow.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just a short walk from my front door yesterday afternoon. Following the stream, up through the wood and out onto open fields.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Flying over me when I was out on the fells yesterday. Looks fun, but not for me. 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of the smaller fells in the Coniston area. I did the whole walk without meeting anyone. Oh, except for a brief “hello” with a paraglider about 50 feet above my head 🤣

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That surprises me as this was it two weeks ago 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No doubt it will be full again when the autumn storms arrive.

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Very rarely, but this was two weeks ago 😊

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here’s a novel idea. That’s novel as in new, as opposed to book. But not a book cover, rather an album and that’s records not photos. Are you still with me?

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good to see the waterfall is back in Tom Ghyll, on the walk up to Tarn Hows.

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