Graeme Skinner » cumbria

Brougham Castle

Graeme — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:24 +0000

I paused briefly (it was too cold to linger) by Brougham Castle, Penrith, this morning as the Moon looked good behind it illuminating the river. I ended up having to put this image together from three different photographs to get close to what I actually saw.

Chilly Start

Graeme — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:27:56 +0000

Today the photo session started well before the Sun had decided to pop over the horizon and burn off the morning mist, but I could not resist the Moonlit wood near the house.

Then a short while later I turned to a few frosted shots.

A bit of water

Graeme — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:59 +0000

I was intending taking some larger landscapes today, but we were stuck in fog and murk all day. Eventually I decided to wander down to a small waterfall and take a few photographs.

I could not decide whether to leave this one in colour or black and white, so I’ve uploaded both, some will like the colour, some the b&w.

I paused halfway through taking the photographs and wondered for a moment how I was going to get out again having half slid down down moss and ice covered stones to get a shot I realized that sliding out again could be a problem.

Morning Magic

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:45:27 +0000

I went down to the River Eden at Langwathby this morning to see how it looked in the moonlight. Mist was rising from the water and the Moon was silhouetted behind the trees on the river bank, the only sound I could hear was a few ducks muttering away on the far bank. Then the ducks stopped their chatter (which was probably the result of me making so much noise getting there), and the mist whipped up surrounding me. It was one of those moments where you feel like you’ve stepped from reality and into fantasy, if some wizard complete with pointy hat had popped up and said hello I don’t think I’d have blinked at that point (okay, I may well have screamed and sprinted back to the car but lets not get too picky). The moment was fleeting though as a truck rumbled over the temporary* bridge behind me pulling me kicking and screaming back to the real world. It was nice to know that fantasy was so close though

Anyway, I took a couple of photographs which is essentially what I went for

*I believe Langwathby Bridge is the longest standing temporary bridge in the Country, built in 1968 it’s not doing too bad

Misty Morning

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:50:25 +0000

Mist in the valley looking out from the window – well, I’d already got cold this morning

Low Cloud

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:04:06 +0000

The light was quite interesting early on (11/1/12) so I took a couple of shots -

Well, I tried to resist it

Graeme — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:59:05 +0000

But for some reason the camera kept calling me until I took another dawn photograph

From the Moon to the Hills

Graeme — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:40:17 +0000

Returning home from work I paused for a moment after getting out of the car to take a quick photograph of the Moon hiding in cloud…

A few hours later the cloud pretty much cleared and I snapped a bit of snow on the Pennines.

Moonlit Morning

Graeme — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:00:21 +0000

Went out for a few photographs before the Sun popped up today, quite enjoyed the long exposures with the clouds moving, would have been nice to have had a clearer view of the hills as well though.

Not sure what caused those two lights in front of the cloud on this last photo, didn’t notice anything when I took them, but then I wasn’t looking up there

Early Morning Light

Graeme — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:58:02 +0000