Daniel Stunell

Summit covered in snow and ice glowing in low afternoon sunlight under a pale blue sky

Summit of Ben More, Stirlingshire, #Scotland. Amazing late afternoon light on a snowy January a few years ago.

#MountainMonday #mountains #mountaineering #landscape #scape #snow #photography #EastCoastKin

A mountain ridge dusted in snow above a snow curtain and glacier. Clouds 'steam' off the back side of the ridge.

Ridge on Barre des Écrins from across Glacier Blanc. #France, #Alps. September.

#Stunday #mountains #landscape #scape #photography #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

They don't need to from a business point of view; the products sell themselves. They can get more favourable conditions, but it's marginal gains. Highly polluting industries 'must' push against regulation to stay in business; the payback from preventing or slowing change is potentially existential.

A bot doesn't care if you block them so I fear the time spent is not actually helping clean-up the wider ecosystem sadly. I do tend to assume all social media sites stating active users are over-estimating by *at least* 30%. I'd like them to do more but suspect it is an under-resoucred arms race.

#BlueSkyArtShow #small

#mushrooms #fungi #FungiFriends #forest #photography

Close up of wind carved snow

Snow covered moorland under a blue sky

Rounded hill catching early morning light on the summit, while the slopes remain in shade

Distant sunrise lights up foreground snow

Sunrise this morning on Ben Cleuch, Clackmannanshire, #Scotland. Only a hill really, but a predawn start and some snow brings a mountain feel.

#sunrise #snow #mountains #scape #landscape #mountaineering #photography

A wall of autumn tree colours on a hillside.

Cantal, #France, October.
#ForestFriday

#Autumn #forest #landscape #LandscapePhotography #scape #EastCoastKin

Cold sun rays slant down between a dark hillside and a dark cloud band.

Autumn sunset on an overcast afternoon. Campsie Fells and the Carse, #Stirling, #Scotland.

#autumn #landscape #scape #moody #clouds #photography #EastCoastKin

Also, many of your photos are of Scotland - which has excellent tourist footfall. People might not think 'I want a classic print from Scotland' in the abstract - they might well do though while visiting and sitting in a coffee shop or going to a local craft store or gallery and seeing something.

I think this is good advice for market numbers. The market for cards and calenders is bigger (if less valuable). I know people who buy/gift these every year. I know very few people with photographic prints. (I have some myself but they are my photos - not great but remind me of mountains visited).

Waterfall cascades from a cleft between cliffs into a turquoise pool. Overcast sky and photo framed (a bit!) by tree branches.

Cascade du saut de laire. Parc National des Ecrins, #France. A rainy day in August.

#WaterfallWednesday #waterfall #mountains #landscape #scape #photography #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

A thin slightly ruffled calcite curtain with light shining through it.

Not strictly a #stalactite - a drapery apparently. Grotte de Tourtoirac, #France.

#RockinTuesday #caves #geology #science #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

Possibly 'the Ancient of Days'? I wouldn't have thought of it but as soon as I read your comment, that's what I thought of.

Black and white photo with a solitary pine tree on moorland.

Survivor. This solitary Scots pine on the hillside shows how much many upland areas in the British Isles have been depleted - and what they could be again.

#Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #mountains #landscape #photography

Looking down a glen from a mountain pass - snow in the foreground and snow patches and brown vegetation on the slopes in the distance. Blue sky mountain day.

A very Scottish winter view for #MountainMonday. Looking out from 'the Window' (a narrow pass between summits) at Creag Meagaidh in late winter / early spring a few years ago.

#Scotland #photography #mountains #mountaineering #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin

Shards of Honor in the Vorkosigan series for this purpose perhaps? (Also generally, that one and Barrayar are my absolute favourites in the series)

Close up of a branch of a conifer turned red against a black background.

Tree branch catching the light on the edge of a dark forest. #Stunday

#photography #autumn #trees #forest #EastCoastKin

Looking through tangled branches and early spring leaves at the sun, also reflected in the river.

Tangled reflections - textures and patterns in this photo from a bright afternoon in early spring. River Forth, #Stirling, #Scotland.

#BlueSkyArtShow #bright

#river #water #reflections #trees #spring #sunshine #photography #EastCoastKin

A sprig of autumn orange beech leaves on the forest floor are illuminated by the evening sun.

Beech leaves. Low sunlight caught these ones on the ground.

#Autumn #France #Beech #ForestFriday #photography #EastCoastKin

Two day moths in close up on a purple flower. Moths have red spots on black wings.

Six-spotted Burnett moths (I think!). French Alps, summer.

#insects #moths #flowers #photography #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin

4-5 metre waterfall surrounded by autumn trees in a range of colours. Calm rather than dramatic.

Alva Glen, Clackmannanshire, #Scotland.

#WaterfallWednesday #forest #trees #autumn #photography #scape #landscape #waterfall #EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography

1/3s exposure, straight from camera.

Tree trunk with apparent eye and trunk amongst green undergrowth and canopy. Or an actual wild wood demon of course...

A wild wood demon for #ThickTrunkTuesday. (Photo from the spring).

#forest #photography

I loved this the first time I visited - and it is kind of true. The naming convention for smaller objects on Mars is to name them after smaller settlements on Earth. Glenelg, Mars, is really there.

Dark grey rocks looking into a Corrie of scree and stone, under a grey-white sky. The only colour is the odd splash of dull green grass.

Ascending the north ridge of Garbh Bheinn on #Skye between squalls, a landscape shaped by fire and ice. A colour shot straight from the phone camera - genuinely this almost-monochrome at time of shooting. Late May #Scotland #mountaineering #MountainMonday #mountains #landscape #photography #scape

Branches slight obscure a view of a river trees and faint misty hills, all in shades of grey and blue.

Near sunset on a wet and misty autumn day, River Forth, Stirling, #Scotland.

#Evening #BlueSkyArtShow
#Autumn #photography

Great read - and an amazing world build. Never read anything quite like it.

Tower on a hill above hills reflected in slightly ruffled river water.

Wallace Monument, #Stirling, #Scotland.

#PhotoOfTheDay #RforReflection #photography

Close up of water falling as a curtain from the bowl of a fountain, with sunshine catching the light as the water fragments from curtain to droplets.

Fountain in Grenoble
#stunday
#fountain #water #sunshine #photography

Light shines through the leaves and a patch of brown bracken catches the sun.

Oakwoods in early #Autumn.

#ColorADay #GreenSat
#forest #oaks #photography #Scotland #trees

Silhouette of trees and picture of starry sky with a 15 second exposure. Looking west with Milky Way faintly visible.

Dark sky and silhouette. #MassifCentral, #France, October.

#Scape #Starscape #photography