Nick’s Pics
8 November 2011 // Nick's Pics
A British Summer, Part Two. Words & pictures by Nick Small. That was it then. Gone. Flounced out in a veil of drizzle. Well, so long then, British Summer, I can’t in all honesty add “and thanks for all the fish” because, aside from a few small brook trout from Hebden Water, there weren’t any. [...]
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2 September 2011 // Nick's Pics
A British Summer, Part One. Words & pictures by Nick Small. At this time of year I’d normally be bamboozling the fish and photographing the glory of endless sunsets in Swedish Lapland. Sadly, for reasons too dull to go into here, this year I’m spending summer at home instead. As it turns out, this isn’t [...]
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Pike. Words & picture by Nick Small. “perfect Pike in all parts” * Pike really would be the perfect fish to eat, were it not for the rather irritating, secondary set of fine “Y” shaped bones along its flanks. The French, who know a thing or two about food, love to eat Pike. I do [...]
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Fire. Words & pictures by Nick Small. I’m lucky to have some of the world’s finest moorland on my doorstep and, taking full advantage of the extended warm and dry Easter, I decided to enjoy it with my lad. We trudged up onto the tops, sharing space, if not time, with Heathcliff and Cathy or [...]
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The Lakes, Luck and Lenticular Cloud. Words & pictures by Nick Small. This photograph of a rather strange, beautiful sky, seen here exactly as the camera recorded it, is the result of a shutter-click, yet so much more. A few weeks ago I went to the Lake District, tasked with making a short film for [...]
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25 February 2011 // Nick's Pics
Squirrel. Words & picture by Nick Small. I’d seen his footprints in the sand at the lake’s edge before and assumed the slender toes to belong to a bank vole or rat. The lapping waves undercut the bank adjacent to our little beach, and I had guessed there to be small mammals enjoying the prime [...]
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Words & pictures by Nick Small. A couple of years ago I wandered around a few of my favourite local waters in Lapland, taking with me a small domestic handycam. Yes, I know normal people use those to document family fun. I do that too, honestly. Anyway, these little portraits of lakes, rivers, brooks and [...]
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25 November 2010 // Nick's Pics
The Beauty of Chance. Words & picture by Nick Small. I was flying back up to Manchester from Newquay a few weeks ago, gazing out from my window seat, when I saw parallel contrail lines tracking rapidly across the sky. I managed to switch the camera on and focus just in time to press the [...]
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20 October 2010 // Nick's Pics
Lapstrake in Lapland. Words & picture by Nick Small. The Byske River, just as it meets the brackish waters of the Gulf of Bothnia, that narrow finger of the Baltic that separates Sweden from Finland. Beneath the beguiling blue calm, thousands of migrating Salmon set their sat nav for the hills, hell bent on procreation [...]
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6 September 2010 // Nick's Pics
Another Boring Sunset. Words & picture by Nick Small. The camp fire contemptuously spits pine resin at the man made fibres that keep the mosquitoes off my legs. Ignoring the threat of spontaneous combustion, I pick up my camera to take this shot. It is the umpteenth photograph I’ve taken of this particularly riotous display [...]
