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…
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…
Read MoreChange of plan
When I returned home this morning I thought I’d play with the camera taking photographs of the misty valley and the Moon above; as the morning wore on my plans changed slightly 😉 At this point I thought it would be a good idea to go for a wander with the dog and the camera along the lane – As I took this photograph I thought, wouldn’t it be good to take the Sun poking its head above the hills through the telescope rather than with the usual lenses, unfortunately…
Read MoreThe best laid plans…
This morning I had a few things planned so I decided against taking the camera out of the bag until everything was sorted. As with all good plans this lasted around 5 minutes then I noticed the Moon starting to drop behind the trees and the mist rising from the fields.
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