Purple saxifrage Saxifraga oppositifolia derives its name from the Latin saxum meaning ‘rock’ and frangere meaning ‘to break’ live amongst rocks and screes which are shattered and broken by severe cold temperatures releasing nutrients for the plants to take up through their roots. It is a coloniser of land uncovered by retreating glaciers. These relict arctic-alpine plants can be seen from February until May even as the snow is melting.
Landscape photography is my focus (sic) since retiring from a university career researching and teaching plant and environmental science. Photography combines my lifelong love of Britain's wild places with an understanding (I hope!) of how our diverse environments work and the processes within them, as well as the way light falls on them. Seeing - really seeing - what is around us is hard, and the challenge for me is to find formalist images whose structure and atmosphere are consonant with the nature of the subject.
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