Chris Routledge
@chrisroutledge
Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement. Born at 323ppm.
The path through a birch forest, Arctic Sweden. #photography #Wildwood
I've been photographing Hardknott Forest here in the UK for several years now for a project called Wildwood. It's a commercial forest that is being allowed to fill with native trees. The birch are definitely my favourite.
Another one from Utrecht; a cargo bike using a shopping trolley as the cargo box. #Netherlands #BelieveinFilm
My neighbours and I spent this Spring getting ourselves connected to the mains water. It took a few months, was massively disruptive, and cost a lot of money, but our private supply would have run dry for sure by now if we hadn't.
When the Wrestle! exhibition opened at The Florence in Egremont last Autumn, I really had to photograph the pit head workings. Since it's an old iron mine, cyanotype seemed the obvious way of making prints. #cyanotype #cumbria
So this is what's possible, but it is fragile paper and I've failed today (this of Maryport from a while back)
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland. This is the jetty at Kiltoon from which the ashes of writer George Moore were taken to Castle Island to be interred after his death in 1933. #BelieveInFilm @ilfordphoto.com
Wordsworth's writing hut, at Rydal Mount. On a sheet of 4x5 film that managed, more or less, to withstand an enormous act of incompetence on my part and turn out quite interesting after all. #BelieveinFilm
The river Rothay near Ambleside was walled into a canal in the 1870s, to drain the land for agriculture, but after heavy rain the old wriggling Rothay reappears next to it. I've been watching it for over a decade and I think the desire river is winning, slowly. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm
This is from my "Wildwood" series. Ring barking involves removing a strip of bark all the way round a tree to kill it but leave it standing. The dead trunk becomes a home for insects and birds. This is Sitka Spruce, an invasive non-native tree. #Holga #BelieveInFilm
Bicycles by the canal in Utrecht, Netherlands (March 2026). #believeinfilm
Should be obvious, but apparently isn't. #LakeDistrict #BelieveInFilm
Dutch railway stations are usually super modern, but Haarlem is a lovely Art Nouveau design. All the waiting rooms and whatnot are on a central island platform. In that respect it's a bit like Preston, Lancashire. Unlike Preston it's beautifully maintained and is really very striking. #BelieveInFilm
Went to Hardknott Forest today for the first time in a couple of months. Four sheets of film exposed, but I also took a digital camera, so here is a larch, on borrowed time, waking up regardless for another Spring. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. #photography #LakeDistrict
Selside, North Yorkshire, January 2026. It was a bitterly cold, damp day when I took this and I can feel it now when I look at it. #BelieveinFilm
It's currently being advertised in the centre of Utrecht with a giant inflatable perch. Photo taken yesterday.
Have been channelling @analoguelass.bsky.social making Lake District diptychs. Here is some street photography. #BelieveinFilm #LakeDIstrict #ThePark
Have spent part of this week installing the Wrestle exhibition (formerly at The Florence, Egremont) at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre. You can see it there until May. #Wrestle #LakeDistrict #BelieveinFilm
I happened to be passing so I dropped in at the Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick this morning and there was *nobody else there* for a few minutes. This very rare phenomenon only occurs when the sun and the moon are in a very specific position relative to each other. #LakeDistrict
We are beset by little birds. This posse was right outside the front door, monitoring our activities.
Daughter just found this picture from a holiday in Wales ten years ago. She is wearing a helmet, because safety first.
I'm sure he does, and I do too! As I recall the light was lovely in that cut through to Exchange Flags. I was standing not far from you with my Yashica Mat 124G. I think I was pushing HP5 one stop (as I often do in winter).
Gotham. The Olympus Pen FT camera that I've been futzing with recently is really much better and a lot more fun than I anticipated. This is on Ilford HP5+ pushed one stop. #believeinfilm #Liverpool