Geograph - photograph every grid square

Formerly avid caver, now enthusiastic canoeist (white water and sea kayak, occasional open boating). Skier, ski-tourer, cyclist, walker, climber, mountaineer, photographer, boat-builder, reader... About two thirds of Munros bagged, but this game has been somewhat in abeyance as the kids grew up. I'm now starting to pick up the thread again, but the b******s have added more (some promoted from tops of Munros I'd already climbed) so I seem to be going backwards....

I first discovered geograph whilst searching for photos of new rivers to paddle and quite a lot of my photos are aimed to meet this need, since photos from on the water seemed under-represented. My best hope for getting the green squares, however, seems to involve kayaking to remote skerries.

The personal milestones seem to add up quite quickly:

My first photo cited in Stellar Examples Game for Information was submitted on my second day as a user, but the next took a while longer (and was not an exciting photo). A third materialised after a solo sea kayak trip to Mull and a fourth after another Mull visit (must be a particularly inspiring place!)


My first photo shortlisted for GoTY (PoTY nowadays) was in week 10 of 2009, a week after becoming a user, but it took a while to get the hang of it. My first (and so far only) winner was a year later in week 10 of 2010 (another visit to Mull). As many of my better submissions in the first few months were from my deep past, those weren't eligible.

Shortlisted:
2009:

2010: week 10 winner:

2011: 2013: 2015:

2017: 2018: