pennines – Graeme Skinner

Short wander

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:51:18 +0000

We had a little wander this morning before my week and the grindstone starts…

Morning wander

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 11 May 2025 16:09:25 +0000

We went for a wander from Dufton this morning towards the Pennines, was a nice change of scene…

180 degrees

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:02:56 +0000

We had a quick Boxing Day wander this morning up the lane. Managed to take a couple of panoramic pics, one looking towards the Pennines and the other towards the Lakeland Fells, the light was rather different

Great Dun Fell

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:35:58 +0000

I had a scrap of illustration board lying around so I decided to practice a landscape in watercolour, well, I’ve been painting quite a few night scenes lately something in daylight was in order . I’ve never tried one of Great Dun Fell before so I picked that as a subject. It’s one I need to revisit soon.

Great Dun Fell, 34x8cm Watercolour.

Diverting

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:21:54 +0000

Driving home from my last night shift of the week and the sunrise was really distracting, the desire to sleep was pushed aside by the desire to take a photograph or two. A short distance from work the Sun was already poking above the Pennines but there was little in the foreground that was working so I carried on resigned to the fact that it wasn’t working today. Then I realised that as I went down towards the river Eden the Sun wouldn’t be as high in the sky so I drove round to the bridge over the Eden at Lazonby and managed a few shots before deciding I really should go home

Snow…..

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:59:00 +0000

Popped out with the camera to take a few snow reference images, the Pennines were looking nice with a covering of snow, sadly I didn’t have a sledge to hand.

Leaves, Trees, Fells and Stones

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:50:28 +0000

A mixed bag of images, mainly because the light kept changing and one minute you thought there wasn’t any point in carrying a camera and the next you couldn’t take enough photographs Anyway, my day started off taking photographs of leaves and trees by the pond, after a pause I was taking photographs at Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle, I ended the day taking a large panoramic of the Pennines…

Finally….

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:21:07 +0000

It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got something to post on here it feels like we’ve have weeks of grey skies, rain, snow, wind…. well in truth we have, but at least yesterday I managed to get out in between rain/sleet/wind to take a quick photograph – yes it did feel good to get out with the camera but sadly I couldn’t repeat the experience today. So, here’s how the cloud looked over the Pennines yesterday afternoon.

If this image is difficult to view, try this larger version LINK.

Towards the hills

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:21:10 +0000

These two photographs are the result of a quick wander when I noticed the light was looking quite interesting (after a spell of grey skies ;-)). I’ve kept the colour versions handy for some Shire/Tolkien themed paintings

A good start

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:59:10 +0000

Well, it was almost a good start, the thermometer on the car read -7.5C when I jumped in to go shopping this morning, and whilst the car started fine the brakes had decided to freeze on :-/ anyway, the delay in setting off meant I caught the dawn sky over the Pennines