On yet another heartbreaking beach walk, I came upon many pipefish, weedy whiting, and tubemouths washed up and dehydrating in the sun. This one, identified by Janine Baker, is a tubemouth (Siphonognathus argyrophanes). Tubemouths are almost impossible to see in their natural habitat when diving among seagrass beds. Perhaps I’ve captured them before, but never […]
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As I headed upstream from Lover’s Leap toward the River Blackwater Beach, I noticed a change. There were fewer lifeless fish on the riverbed now, and the first signs of the living, dying, and desperate. I saw trout with clouded eyes, their bodies veiled in a milky-grey film. Some floated upside down near the surface, […]
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Today, I slipped into the waters of the River Blackwater beneath Lover’s Leap, downstream from Mallow, hoping to capture some of the local river life. What I saw instead distressed me. It made me angry. It made me sad. In less than 100 metres of river, I counted more than a hundred dead or dying […]
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Eleven years ago today I originally shared this image, titled ‘The End of Time’. Back then I did not write or share the story behind the image. I could not. Today I will tell its story. Growing up this was our family clock which stood proud on the kitchen mantelpiece, struck its gong once on […]
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It’s ironic how such dainty little white and yellow flowers have taken on the omen of death. Still, here they are all congregated in a suspiciously defined patch of open grass amid the old graves of Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh. You can of course look at those little white and yellow daisies see them for what […]
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