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You are here: Home / Columns / British Landscapes Photography / British Landscapes Photography: Britain’s Beautiful Breathing Spaces

British Landscapes Photography: Britain’s Beautiful Breathing Spaces

September 17, 2012 By Derek Fogg

Following my recent introductory post I thought it best to start by providing  you with an overview of the key scenic areas of the British Isles and where better to start than with the national parks of England, Scotland and Wales of which there are currently fifteen.  Ten are in England, three in Wales and two in Scotland. There are currently no national parks in Northern Ireland but there are six in Ireland.

Although I have visited some of the parks in Ireland none of those visits have been during my photographic journey so for now I will concentrate on the others.

Two thirds of those parks have been visited to greater or lesser extents on my journey so for now I will share with you an initial insight into 5 of those parks.  In due course I will return to them in more detail along with others visited in the meantime.

Lets start off in Scotland and an area I am sure you have all heard of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs.

 

Loch Lomond © Derek Fogg – British Landscapes Photography

 

Loch Lomond and the Trossachs is a truly special place and has a great variety of landscapes contained within it, even though its so close to the major cities of Scotland.  Loch Lomond is the jewel of the park and is the largest expanse of fresh water in mainland UK and has many different moods depending on the weather, time of day and season.  This image was captured from the eastern shoreline near Rowardennan in early Autumn.

Now for something totally different the Yorkshire Dales with wild valleys criss-crossed by drystone walls and dotted with barns, limestone pavements, high wild fells, waterfalls and the summer glow of wild flowers in the traditional hay meadows.

 

Swaledale © Derek Fogg – British Landscapes Photography

 

The image above shows Swaledale and is renowned for its archetypal Yorkshire Dales scenery of drystone walls, field barns and meadows. The barns and dry stone walls form a unique historic farmed landscape that has evolved since at least the 17th century. The majority of the field barns were built between 1750 and the end of the 19th century. There are 1044 field barns in Swaledale alone and a conservative guess of the number in the whole national park would exceed 6000.

Now its Wales turn. On the very tip of south west Wales lies the unique Pembrokeshire Coast,  the only one of Britain’s national parks that is almost entirely coastal.  It contains long, windswept beaches, hidden coves, outstanding geological features and a variety of natural and man made harbours. The park celebrated its Diamond anniversary earlier this year.

 

Whitesands Bay © Derek Fogg – British Landscapes Photography

 

The ‘white sand’ that the beach gets its name from is as a result of the geological formations of the nearby cliffs and riverbeds, producing a soft white sand that sits majestically on the shores of this bay on one of the most remote corners of Wales. Having walked to the bay I sat for ages one evening many years ago to capture this image.  Fortunately I got talking to a couple who were also watching the sunset who very kindly gave me a lift back to my base for the night otherwise I would have been walking back in the dark.

In Norfolk, on the east coast we have the Broads National Park, Britain’s magical water land, a uniquely beautiful environment shaped by people working hand in hand with nature over thousands of years.

 

Brograve Mill © Derek Fogg – British Landscapes Photography

 

This image of Brograve Mill was captured earlier this year and is a windpump located on Brograve level in the parish of Sea Palling.  The mill is a grade II listed building of red brick construction, now lying in an extremely dilapidated and unsafe state.  Built in 1771 it is thought to have last worked around 1930.  Its purpose was to drain the Brograve levels into the man-made Waxham New Cut.

And finally for this month we briefly visit the newest national park, the South Downs having become fully operational in April 2011.  The park in southern England, stretches for 87 miles from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.

 

Birling Gap © Derek Fogg – British Landscapes Photography

 

The National Trust now own the coastline around Birling Gap and its position receives the full force of the south westerly wave action at the cliff base.  The result is that over a metre of cliff is lost every year and this rate has been increasing since the 1960s.  Disappearing into the distance you can see the Seven Sisters, the finest example of unprotected chalk cliffs in Britain.

That concludes our brief introduction to some of the national parks.  To see more and other areas of the British Isles don’t forget to follow this column on a regular basis.

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