We’d decided to take a short break in Fife to recharge the batteries and celebrate my 21st birthday. So, we made a few arrangements and got ourselves ready for the trip, then it snowed. It didn’t look particularly heavy but our car has issues with a light dusting of snow and we had a few twisty roads to negotiate, the worst parts would be getting off our hill, and getting the cat to the cattery. So, as the council tend to ignore our roads for 99.9% of the year we…
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Light
It was only by chance I picked up the camera when I headed out of the house earlier, I’m pleased I did as the light over the hills was quite impressive. So, I paused, snapped a few photographs, and carried on my way 😉
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We had to pop into town this morning (which was interesting as the roads were sheet ice and there was no grit in sight). Anyway, we paused briefly to take in the view before the excitement of food shopping –
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My morning was pretty much planned, sketch some ideas which had been niggling away at me and then paint. I did eventually sketch a few ideas, but first I was a little distracted by taking photographs of the Sun. After taking a few single shots I snapped a couple of panoramic sequences and made them zoomable 😉 A while later I tried out the solar filter I’d bought to photograph the transit of Venus (which I missed due to cloud cover ;-)), a few Sunspots are visible and it was…
Read MoreRannerdale & Crummock
We decided to go for a bit of a wander amongst the Bluebells in Rannerdale, Cumbria which was quickly followed by a trot down to the side of Crummock Water…..
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