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 The Lemming 17 Dec 2020

Been a funny old year, and not much opportunity to take images, however care to share your favorite image taken in 2020?

The rules are quite simple, the image can be of any subject as long as it was captured this year. 

First place is one week's holiday in Blackpool.

Second place is two week's  holiday in Blackpool.

 Graeme G 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Where do we post them?

I haven’t been to Blackpool in years. I’m beside myself with excitement.

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OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Here is my fave from this year

Removed User 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

He's got his knob out!

 Mike_d78 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

One of my favourites "Light at the end of the Corona virus tunnel"...aka a composite of a bog roll tube and Ashway Gap tunnel!

If I win I donate my prize to second place...

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 Mike_d78 17 Dec 2020
In reply to Removed User:

Never seen a squirrel's knob before thanks for pointing it out!

 BuzyG 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

What if you don't make the rostrum.  I think the possibility of life imprisonment in Blackpool may be putting folk off.

OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to BuzyG:

> What if you don't make the rostrum.  I think the possibility of life imprisonment in Blackpool may be putting folk off.


True.

Third place is a week in Fleetwood.

In reply to Graeme G:

> I haven’t been to Blackpool in years. I’m beside myself with excitement.

{I'm embarrassed to say} I've never been to Blackpool, and my alter ego is beside itself with excitement.

OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

You've never been to the Las Vegas of the North?

It truly is a place of beauty, wealth and squalor.

 Harry Jarvis 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

> It truly is a place of beauty, wealth and squalor.

What interesting definitions of beauty and wealth you must have in your part of the world. 

 Wingnut 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

https://www.ukclimbing.com/photos/dbpage.php?id=356902

Early March this year. Bumped into the bloke a bit later and it appears we may have been the "random person for scale" in each other's photos.

 Wingnut 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Ok, you've just educated me ... squirrel porn is indeed a thing! (o::

OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to Wingnut:

I shan't show the lactating Mrs squirrel

Like the Cairn Gorms image 😀😀

 PPP 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Last good pre-lockdown snow. That trip feels so distant now and the fact the bothy was open to public feels weird. 
 

I also had few nice nights in the Tulloch hostel, chatted with few nice folk and remember listening to a podcast about some virus in China... 

OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to Longsufferingropeholder:

Great fun image

However proper climbers don't wear socks. 😁

In reply to The Lemming:

> However proper climbers don't wear socks. 😁

You take that back!

 Mal Grey 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Not my most dramatic, or best composed, photo of the year, but this is special for what it represents. Over the first lockdown, when the new weird world was a strange place, everyday I walked from home exploring my local natural world. It was such a joy to be away from the flat, where I have been working and living for so long now, and I learnt so much about my local flora and fauna.

On the edge of a golf course, that had kindly allowed folk to wander across the fairways if they were respectful of the greens, I once spotted a kestrel in a tree. Over a number of weeks, I visited regularly, and the two kestrels didn't seem to mind, if I stood quietly. One day, not long before the course re-opened, the lady of the woods just sat in this tree as I slowly approached, and we had a nice chat. Perhaps 30 feet away.

https://flic.kr/p/2iQo5tU

This connection with nature, and 100s of other creatures, is what has kept me going this year. Tonight I was chatting to a bunch of deer. They too, didn't seem to mind.

 earlsdonwhu 17 Dec 2020
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

I'm proud never to have gone to Blackpool.

 Tony Buckley 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Pleased with this one.  Been meaning to play with that filter for ages.  I also want to use it to get a shot of the polishing stone, on the Ridgeway near Avebury, but logistics, lockdowns and other stuff keeps getting in the way.  One for next year.

https://flic.kr/p/2jLdX7j

T.

OP The Lemming 17 Dec 2020
In reply to earlsdonwhu:

> I'm proud never to have gone to Blackpool.


That's nice.

 aln 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Favourite image taken by ourselves or someone else? If it's by someone else then probably one of Robert Durran's, he's posted some belter this year. 

 Blue Straggler 17 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

I have two possibilities

1: here 

edit - ok the bug has not been fixed yet, sadly. This was me trying to upload a picture from an iPhone gallery, via Safari on iPhone. I think I've had this issue before. 

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OP The Lemming 18 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Can I add another category to the End of Year competition?

If so, then you can submit one video that you've created and published somewhere on the internet that we can all enjoy and marvel at.

Pornhub is obviously not one of those outlets for viewing 😂

 ChrisBrooke 18 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Here’s my entry.  youtube.com/watch?v=c1GiBvhzni8&
Bouldering smut I’m afraid, but I was quite pleased with it. 

OP The Lemming 18 Dec 2020
In reply to ChrisBrooke:

Sorry, disqualified. I saw use of a knee 😂

Cracking little YouTube episode.

 ChrisBrooke 18 Dec 2020
In reply to The Lemming:

Thanks.

Knees are fair game when you're a punter

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OP The Lemming 18 Dec 2020
In reply to ChrisBrooke:

OK. After reviewing all the evidence and viewing your plea, I have relisted you for the competition.😀

 Cobra_Head 18 Dec 2020
In reply to Removed User:

> He's got his knob out!


Haven't we all? beside he's excited, he's having his photo taken.

 Blue Straggler 19 Dec 2020
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> I have two possibilities

> 1: here 

> edit - ok the bug has not been fixed yet, sadly. This was me trying to upload a picture from an iPhone gallery, via Safari on iPhone. I think I've had this issue before. 

Trying again. 

1:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-straggler/50301287472/in/album-721577158...

 Robert Durran 19 Dec 2020
In reply to aln:

> Favourite image taken by ourselves or someone else? If it's by someone else then probably one of Robert Durran's.

Thanks   I've had my highest ever ranked both climbing and landscape shots on UKC this year - glad you've enjoyed them.

OP The Lemming 19 Dec 2020
In reply to Robert Durran:

I showed mine, and went nuts all in.

Your turn. 😀

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