If you go down to the woods today

This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we’d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn’t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a…

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Towards the Sun

….or should I say out of the mist? This morning I set out to take a few misty photographs, but there was quite a bit too much mist for me to get the photographs I was after. So, in the end I decided to pop up Hartside Pass to see what the views were like. Whilst at the top I stopped to watch the Sunrise, as you do πŸ˜‰ and took a quick photograph while I was there.

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