Mark Crean

Well said. Round here, the land bears centuries-long wounds of exploitation and extraction. There is no magic garden to go walking in, and we - us and the land - both need healing.

Walking through a veil of colour and light and back into the dull drech of a damp winter’s day. Blenheim Park this morning. Oxfordshire, December 2025. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday

Walking through a veil of colour and light and back into the dull drech of a damp winter’s day. Blenheim Park this morning. Oxfordshire, December 2025.

#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#BlenheimPalace
#Oxfordshire
#Stunday

Knocked about, freezing cold and stuck here for the winter. Probably how most of us are feeling by now. At Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025. #Oxfordshire #Statues #Portrait #BlackandWhitePhotography

Knocked about, freezing cold and stuck here for the winter. Probably how most of us are feeling by now. At Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025.

#Oxfordshire
#Statues
#Portrait
#BlackandWhitePhotography

The fabulous Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025. #Oxfordshire #Chickens #RareBreeds #Photography

The fabulous Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025. #Oxfordshire #Chickens #RareBreeds #Photography

The fabulous Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025.

#Oxfordshire
#Chickens
#RareBreeds
#Photography

Cherwell II, by Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire, after Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, a copy of which sold for $4.3 million in 2011. Alas, it looks a tad unlikely I’ll find any of that in my Christmas Stocking. #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #EastCoastKin

Cherwell II, by Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire, after Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, a copy of which sold for $4.3 million in 2011. Alas, it looks a tad unlikely I’ll find any of that in my Christmas Stocking.

#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#EastCoastKin

A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world. #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world. #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world. #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

A beautiful soft end to November in the English countryside. A few honey bees were still on the wing in an orchard and there was a red admiral butterfly on the path. No one else was around. Just the world.

#Oxfordshire
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin

Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, and alas not very mobile these days, staring in the general direction of a proposed new housing development at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire that threatens to spoil his view. #Oxfordshire #RomanEmpire #Photography

Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, and alas not very mobile these days, staring in the general direction of a proposed new housing development at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire that threatens to spoil his view. #Oxfordshire #RomanEmpire #Photography

Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, and alas not very mobile these days, staring in the general direction of a proposed new housing development at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire that threatens to spoil his view.

#Oxfordshire
#RomanEmpire
#Photography

I doubt we can do this until the current generation of politicians stops lying (essentially about the past, as British Exceptionalism) and instead admits reality, starting with our relations with Europe. It’s likely that in a very complex world governments do simply have to do more than they used to

A bend in the river. The Cherwell at Lower Heyford, and the first time I’ve seen a decent amount of water in it since early spring. #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #Autumn

A bend in the river. The Cherwell at Lower Heyford, and the first time I’ve seen a decent amount of water in it since early spring.

#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Autumn

After 36 hours of rain, wind and thick grey cloud, it’s great to see some sunshine and colour in Blenheim Park this morning. #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #Autumn

After 36 hours of rain, wind and thick grey cloud, it’s great to see some sunshine and colour in Blenheim Park this morning.

#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Autumn

4.15pm. The last of sunset and the trees are bare. It must be winter at last. St a Michael’s Street, Oxford. #EastCoastKin #Sunset #WinterLight

4.15pm. The last of sunset and the trees are bare. It must be winter at last. St Michael’s Street, Oxford.

#EastCoastKin
#Sunset
#WinterLight

Unlikely, alas. He was from the southern Irish branch of the Creans, I believe, whereas my forebears were from a northern branch around Sligo and Mayo. But what a guy!

The Cherwell watermeadows at Kidlington in Oxfordshire today, now in flood as they are almost every winter. This is about half a mile from the huge new illegal rubbish dump next to the Cherwell that the government don’t want to do anything about. #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography #Flytipping

The Cherwell watermeadows at Kidlington in Oxfordshire today, now in flood as they are almost every winter. This is about half a mile from the huge new illegal rubbish dump next to the Cherwell that the government don’t want to do anything about.

#Oxfordshire
#LandscapePhotography
#Flytipping

'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years' The man was only meant to stay for a day.

I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.

metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...

The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning. #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #Autumn

The last of autumn on our walk through Blenheim Park this morning.

#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Autumn

Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts. #Oxfordshire #Flags #Buddhism

Prayer flags in East Oxford. So much more pleasant than being berated, at least round here, by giant poppies and St George’s Cross on lampposts.

#Oxfordshire
#Flags
#Buddhism

The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025. #Oxfordshire #GardenPhotography #Apples

The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025. #Oxfordshire #GardenPhotography #Apples

The last of the apples quietly rotting on the tree as winter begins to fall. Next spring’s buds are already visible. And so the wheel turns. Oxfordshire, 2025.

#Oxfordshire
#GardenPhotography
#Apples

Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025. #Oxfordshire #BirdPhotography #Chickens

Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025. #Oxfordshire #BirdPhotography #Chickens

Barbu d'Uccle bantam chickens, now a rare breed. They are extremely handsome, I think, particularly the cock birds. Rousham House, November 2025.

#Oxfordshire
#BirdPhotography
#Chickens

Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire. #BlackandWhitePhotography #Oxfordshire #Winter #Hades

Sinking light, sinking energy today, as if autumn was done and winter had come. So I thought of darkness and ghosts and gloomy places like Hades, with this statue of Bacchus. Rousham House, Oxfordshire.

#BlackandWhitePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#Winter
#Hades

The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been. #Autumn #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #BlenheimPalace

The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been. #Autumn #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #BlenheimPalace

The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been. #Autumn #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #BlenheimPalace

The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been. #Autumn #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire #BlenheimPalace

The autumn colours in Blenheim Park are still lovely. What an amazing autumn it’s been.

#Autumn
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
#BlenheimPalace

Wonderful evening, wonderful photographer. And there are lots of Photo Oxford events now on around town. For more, see photooxford.org

Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left. #Photography #Oxfordshire

Thought of going along en famille to the Halloween Celebrations at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, then looked at the ticket prices and realised there’d be almost nothing left.

#Photography
#Oxfordshire

Leaves in a woodland pool. Oxfordshire, October 2025. #Autumn #Photography #Oxfordshire

Leaves in a woodland pool. Oxfordshire, October 2025.

#Autumn
#Photography
#Oxfordshire

Group Exhibition: Surface Tension — Photo Oxford Kendrew Barn 25 October–25 November

Good one. Reminds me a bit of this expo about “Photography, Truth, Materiality” which I saw a couple of days ago (though perhaps - I don’t know - you are trying to do something quite different).

photooxford.org/exhibitions/...

The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town. #PhotoOxford #Photography #Oxford photooxford.org

The Photo Oxford festival has just kicked off with a superb exhibition of Paddy Summerfield’s work in the Weston Library in Broad Street. For the next three weeks there are many other shows and events all over town.

#PhotoOxford
#Photography
#Oxford

photooxford.org

Peak autumn in Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, this morning. #Autumn #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography

Peak autumn in Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, this morning. #Autumn #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography

Peak autumn in Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, this morning. #Autumn #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography

Peak autumn in Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, this morning. #Autumn #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography

Peak autumn in Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, this morning.

#Autumn
#Oxfordshire
#LandscapePhotography

Blenheim Park’s famous corn-fed sheep. #Sheep #Corn #Oxfordshire

Blenheim Park’s famous corn-fed sheep.

#Sheep
#Corn
#Oxfordshire

A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.

A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.

A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.

A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.

A local wander to enjoy the autumn in Oxfordshire. It’s been an amazing year for windfall apples and fruit of all kinds.

One in the eye for the horrid gammons. Further on, Britain could not have managed in WWII without massive help from the Commonwealth, eg 2.5 million men in the British Indian Army alone.

Thank you, James! It’s a lovely place.