I posted this on Twitter this afternoon:
A reflection at @WWTWelney this morning. pic.twitter.com/qTvTpGodzo
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) July 13, 2025
I have not, as yet, posted the video on any other platform.
I admit this is an experiment. I used a DJI Action Pro, which is a camera I am not very familiar with. I also made, and then managed to add, the B-roll near the start when editing this video in Descript, something I have never managed before, and which I am sure could be done better.
But if you can get onto Twitter, I hope it is worth watching. I admit, I enjoyed making it, and that doing this could be fun.
And if you think I look hot in the video, I can assure you, I was.
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But I expect your wife would say you were always “hot” …..
I very much doubt that ….
My favourite place for such moments is the upper Lady-bower dam. On the trail there you come across some tall pine trees facing a bank that descends down to the reservoir. You can sit there on some rocks and just listen to the wind going through the trees (a gentle, continuous wooshing noise) and hear nothing else (except the odd tree creaking if it gets rocked by the wind). In places, the Peak District has its mini alpine spots and they are terrific.
But in those moments of ‘silence’ – you are right – it is an experience of pure un-adulterated clarity and freedom and your senses – once attuned – move to a different level. A good time to have camera as well. It is a feeling of being connected to something but also – strangely – that it matters not that you are there at all watching it all. Because somehow, unlike one’s self, it will always be there in some form or other; there’s an omnipotence about it that is strangely reassuring.
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My weekend reflections were the Buxton Carnival (lots of money raised for charity) and so much incredible effort put in by individuals and local businesses – I had a pocket full of small change for the smaller children to put into the ‘buckets’ – heaven knows how much those buckets weighed by the end of the parade! – and a fly-over by a Lancaster Bomber – in fact, it flew over 3 times. Added to all that, a good midday ‘conversation’ at the Buxton Festival with Diane Abbott being interviewed about her book ‘A Woman Like Me’ – she is a remarkable lady, and, yes, I have read the book – maybe more on that in another blog, if Richard is so inclined) as she had ‘things’ to say about Kier Starmer! Then in the evening a preperformance talk, and then a performance of ‘Hamlet’ – a grand opera in five acts (1868) by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier – and indeed it was ‘grand’ if not entirely the story as told in Shakespeare – and some incredible young talent on stage with a few older faces/voices too – but the director had cast the singers for the age of their character and I have nothing but praise for the singers performing as Hamlet and Ophelia, and indeed all of the singers on stage, especially those from the RNCM and all excellently accompanied by the orchestra of Opera North. After such excellent music in Aldeburgh, this first night of opera in Buxton did not disappoint.
Thanks for sharing.
In contrast (if you have half a minute to spare) see this drone footage of a red kite over Norfolk: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly1gen58w1o
I hope he filmed from a distance….