Slow water – Riggindale Beck

This is a long(ish) exposure of Riggindale Beck so that the fast moving river slows to flow over the rocks! Glorious! View looking up Riggindale, Rough Crag and Long Stile leading up to High Street in the distance. FujiFilm X-A5 – 18-55mm XF Zoom lens – 18mm; f/20; 1/6sEdited using LuminarAI

Let there be light!

Taken almost at the peak of Kidsty Pike – a glorious shaft of light from the heavens! Haweswater reservoir can been seen in the valley; Kidsty Howes in the middle distance to the left and Riggindale and Riggindale Beck are lit by the light. FujiFilm X-A5 – 18-55mm XF Zoom lens – 18mm; f/5.6; 1/420sEdited…

Sunrise…Lake District Style!

I had an overnight work trip to Leeds last week, so decided to take the opportunity to travel up to Newcastle to see my daughter who is studying at the University. On the Saturday evening I came across to Penrith and made an early start to walk from Mardale Head at the end of Haweswater…

Waterfall II – Small Water Beck

Another waterfall photograph from the recent walk from Mardale Head to Small Water. A wider shot than in Waterfall I, but just as stunning! Again, a long exposure to show the movement in the water – used 8s shutter for this one. Technical Details: Fuji X-A5 with an XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4.0 OIS lens – 18mm;…

Waterfall I – Small Water Beck

From the recent walk from Mardale Head to Small Water, a long exposure shot of one of many cascades over rocks as the stream flows from Small Water down to Haweswater Reservoir – heaven if you like that sort of thing! And there is probably some more if you walk from Mardale Head up towards…

Above Small Water

Stopped off in the Far Eastern Lakes on an extended route back from Newcastle having stopped at Hadrian’s Wall first near Haltwhistle (pictures from there and the stay in Newcastle will follow). This is the area from the end of Haweswater Reservoir – Initially a smaller natural lake, Mardale valley was dammed and flooded in…

Watching the watcher…

This was taken on an early morning dog walk along the quayside in Newcastle during a recent trip to the city to see our daughter. While walking back towards the hotel, I spotted this chap underneath the swing bridge watching the sunrise over the River Tyne. Glorious colours and great reflections! Shot taken with a…

Bassenthwaite Lake

On a recent and all to brief visit to the Lake District, I took this six shot, handheld panorama from the edge of Bassenthwaite Lake a short distance from Keswick – I had come from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, having got our daughter settled in her accommodation at the University and stopped off near Steel Rigg on Hadrians…

Walk – Burford to the Barringtons

A few pictures from a walk I did with Sparky on Saturday – a nice walk, mostly along roads, but these were quiet – Walked from Burford along the Windrush Valley to the edge of Little Barrington, then up to Great Barrington and back via the road to Little Barrington to return to Burford –…

Partial Solar Eclipse – June 2021

As so often seems to happen with celestial events, it was cloudy here today, but the clouds did break momentarily and I managed to take this photograph of the sun – not taken at the time of the maximum (for us this would have been around 20% of the sun covered), but not too long…