lakes – Graeme Skinner

A la’l break

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:37:06 +0000

We managed to get a few days away in the caravan and I even managed to take a photograph or two….

First of all there was the river that became rather excitable after some heavy rain –

The next day we popped down to the south west of the county and stopped near Ennerdale as the rays were looking good –

Then we stopped near Muncaster castle for a quick snap –

Then we popped into Gosforth to look at the Gosforth Cross –

A day later we had another drive out and stopped to take a couple of pics up Caldbeck way –

It takes time

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:44:44 +0000

Well, it takes me time to finish a watercolour these days, mainly because I find I’ve a thousand and one other things to do in a day. Anyway, I’ve been working on this Lake District landscape for a while now, and I’m calling it finished actually I’m calling it finished until I decide whether to do any more to it or not.

Down by the lake

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:33:35 +0000

We popped down to Ullswater this morning to catch the morning mist, but we missed it I took a few photographs instead…

Before the dawn by Ullswater

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:48:29 +0000

There is something to be said for get up at stupid times of the day (or night in this case). So, at 0430hrs I was loading the camera gear in the car and hoping the cloud would vanish from in front of the Moon. As I approached Ullswater the cloud had completely covered the Moon, and I was about to turn around when I decided to stop the car and stand by the lake for a while. I’m glad I did, all I could hear was the water lapping against the stoney shore and the wind rustling a few nearby reeds. It took me a minute or two to remember I had my camera with me So, I took a few photographs while I enjoyed the tranquility. Most of the images are to be used as reference images for paintings, but here’s a couple of them…

Moonlit Morning

Graeme Skinner — 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

Patches of light

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:36:59 +0000

A trip west and a couple of photographs from Bassenthwaite and Caldbeck Common.

Out and About…

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:16:20 +0000

Today we had a run out and visited a few lakes and fells, some we’ve seen a few times recently and a few we’ve not seen for years.

First of all we stopped near Crummock Water and wandered up the side of Cinderdale Beck.

Looking back from the beck we spotted the Moon high above Melbreak

We also spotted a couple of unnamed fell tops

After Crummock Water we stopped off by Loweswater for a quick photograph

After this I had intended taking some photographs looking out over the coast and towards Scotland, but I was shocked by the amount of wind turbines cluttering up the land and spoiling the views.

From here we popped by Ennerdale.

Finally we stopped on the way home to look back towards the fells as the light was looking nice

All in all a nice morning out and about in the Cumbrian hills.

Bloomin’ Weather

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:30:42 +0000

This weekend we had a friend staying with us from Brazil, so we offered to show her around the area, of course the Cumbrian weather did its best to try and dampen our spirits but it failed So here are a few photographs of our whistle stop tour of Cumbria –

As you can see, at the end of the tour the weather was perfect

More Cloud

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:15:51 +0000

Another cloudy black & white photograph, this time looking over Penrith, Cumbria towards the Lakeland Fells.

This isn’t the SuperMoon

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:43:58 +0000

Nor is it the megaMoon, it certainly can’t be referred to as the amazinglysplendoroussparklyMoon. It’s just the Moon, yes it may be a little closer at the moment but you’re not suddenly going to be blinded by looking at it, and it’s certainly not going to start boiling all the fluids in your brain Having said that, the Moon is super, but then it always is to me
I decided this morning to take a few early morning photographs of the Moon as it hovered above Blencathra and slowly sank behind it.

This is the Moon nearly fully behind Blencathra, I quite liked the effect I also too a few photographs and put them together into an animated gif –

The final two images give more of a Sunset effect than a Moonset –