Today we had a run out to Sizergh Castle which is only a few miles outside of Kendal in Cumbria. We first met up at Sizergh Barn with a friend for coffee and cake, the barn is just outside the grounds of Sizergh Castle and is an excellent place to stop for a bite. The gardens at Sizergh Castle are great for a wander with the camera, I could not take photographs inside the castle as it’s not allowed, but I managed a few outside 😉
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Long Meg and her Daughters
Today we had a quick run out to Long Meg stone circle, well the stone circle is actually made up from Long Meg’s daughters and Long Meg is a single Menhir standing alone outside the circle. The light was tricky, with the clouds drifting quickly in front of the Sun, but it was nice to get out and wander amongst the stones. Click here for larger version 😉
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Sometimes you just have to go with the flow, not in the “follow the crowd” sense, but in the sense that when you’re feeling inspired you should just see what happens. This morning I came home from dropping Julie off for work and the Moon was starting to illuminate a little bit of mist beneath the Pennines whilst Orion stood rather majestically to it’s right. So I grabbed the camera and tripod and proceeded to take far too many photographs, but then you never know in low light what is…
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Oh yes, there was a landscape too 🙂 Yesterday I was having problems, nothing serious, but I was struggling to take a photograph to Blip. I took a few photographs on our morning walk but when I looked at them on screen none of them were any good. I took a cobweb, but there was no spider in it and the light wasn’t exciting; I took some shafts of light in the wood, but when I looked at the results it was a dark mush of nothing; my photographs of…
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Driving home from work this morning I became more and more frustrated, the Sun had not crept above the Pennines and the valleys were filled with mist, with the odd tree poking it’s head out of the mist like a lone sentinal to the morning. Why was I frustrated, well I’d been too stupid to take a camera to work with me last night and the phone wasn’t really going to be up to the task. When I arrived home the cloud above the hills was starting to change colour…
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