Fog and sunlight When I stood on the ancient Hill Fort on Hollingbury Hill on Saturday afternoon, the sun shone on the hills and its...

Photography is many things: a profession, a hobby, what you do on holiday, an art form, a form of activism, a way of making scientific...

9.00 - 15.15. Weather: overcast, frequent rain/drizzle; temperature: 1-3 degrees: wind: 10 mph (North/North-East; Tides: Low tide -...

On News Year's Eve I wanted to take a solitary walk in the countryside as I wanted to be able to sustain my attention on natural...

This blog post is a record of my experience of walking through Stanmer Wood and focussing my attention on what I saw, "bathing in the...

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities...

Baby albatross flies for the first time. Andrew Cotter narrates the nightly walk of the fairy penguins of Victoria's Phillip Island Olive...

These photographs of Lapwings (and a few Herring Gulls, Black-headed Gulls, Great Black-backed Gulls, Crows and Redshanks) are punctuated...

On Monday (21st December, the Winter Solstice) I had planned to got to Arundel, to visit the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust site there;...

The covid-19 pandemic has provoked much anxiety and stress for us all. The Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoko provides a way of reducing...

Slow looking is a form of mindfulness and, as such, an antidote to mindlessness and distraction. It teaches us to be present in our...

Friday was a grim day; overcast and cold. I lacked the energy to cycle to to one of my usual nature haunts (Shoreham Harbour/Widewater...

I headed of the the Adur Estuary and Widewater Lagoon this afternoon, as I had been informed that there were Kingfishers to be seen....

These photos of the coast from Brighton to Goring were taken whilst cycling along the National Cycle Network Route 2 on Monday 23/11/20....

The experience of vastness (see this post) is not a prerequisite for finding things that are sublime to you: the beautiful nearby can...

The importance of experiencing "sublime" landscapes was known to elite 18th and 19th century Grand Tourists; and was theorised by the...

On Friday I set off to Ferring, as I wanted to explore the Ferring Ryfe, a small river between Ferring and Littlehampton - a bird...

Spiritual activism has been much discussed of late in theories of social action on climate change and biodiversity loss. Ana Louise...

Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and print maker. He was a colleague of Kandinsky, and one of the...

If we are to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, it seems clear that governments and citizens need to take action to reduce...