It’s interesting to see the weather change around you, though normally I like to be hidden away indoors when it’s turning bad 😉 Anyway, the day started out fine with a nice touch of mist rising from the River Eden, so I took a few snaps by Langwathby. Then it all clouded over and looked a little boring for a while – well, boring for landscape photographs or sketching that is. We ended up having a run down to Kirkby Lonsdale, I took the camera along more out of hope…
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Going Pear Shaped
I went out this morning nice and early as there was mist forming quite nicely in the Eden valley, my intention had been to capture a bit of the early morning summer atmosphere. Not far from the house I paused and started taking photographs, and it was indeed a pleasant morning to potter about with the camera taking both moody misty shots and shots that I could only describe as desolate. So why is my favourite photograph of the morning one of a scarecrow in the field next to…
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Went for an early morning wander and spent a little bit of time watching the patches of light come and go amongst the trees. It’s quite interesting to watch how quickly things change as the Sun climbs above the horizon creating different patterns as its rays pass through the branches and leaves. Maybe one day I’ll manage a time lapse of it.
Read MoreDawn at Long Meg
This morning we had a quick run down to Long Meg And Her Daughters stone circle for a wander and maybe take a photograph or two. I had to Photoshop the images to lighten Long Meg and the foreground grass a little 😉 Sometime you just have to get down low for a photograph, pity it was rather cold this morning…
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Long time no blog, well a few days at least. I gave in and caught some cold bug which kept me away from the computer for a while, today I can sit and stare at it, then every now and then remember to click the mouse button 😉 luckily the computer is not voice controlled as I still can’t speak 🙂 Anyway, I did manage the odd photograph in between trying to turn myself inside out coughing and sneezing. This morning I decided to try and take a photograph of…
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