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Rydal Cave is situated on Loughrigg Fell and is actually a man-made cavern, which was formerly known as Loughrigg Quarry. The cave has been hollowed out of a rocky outcrop which overlooks picturesque Rydal Water. Over two hundred years ago, Rydal Cave was a busy working quarry supplying excellent quality roofing slate to the surrounding local villages.
The cave forms a dramatic mini ampitheatre, the entrance framed by jutting, angular rocks, much of which is now flooded by a stagnant pool, which abounds with small fish and insect life and can be accessed by a short walk along Loughrigg Fell, ample parking is provided at the nearby car park at White Moss Common on the A591.
Several large blocks of stone have recently fallen from the ceiling of the cave (2009). Visitors are advised for safety reasons to keep out, anyone doing so enters at their own risk.
Thanks to English Lakes for the history lesson and information on the location.
a long exposure of the boathouse at rydal water in the lake district, uk. i waited around for hours during sunrise to get some colours but the only hint of them was on the fells in the distance which only lasted about five minutes.
A view of the Rydal Fells from Loughrigg. A light dusting of winter snow on Heron Pike, Rydal Fell, Great Rigg and Fairfield in the middle ground.
I loved the early light on the tussocks of moorland grasses in the foreground before the view opens up across the Rydal Valley. It was pretty cold and windy, but the views on this morning were fabulous.
A tighter shot of the boathouse on Rydal. I'd been reading an article the night before about using a 70-200mm for landscape photography and decided to try for the tighter shot.
The mist was still hovering above so the temptation is to always include it because it looks so atmospheric. So a little experimental but good to revisit and have a play with the tighter shot.
Hopefully a slightly different viewpoint from the standard shots of the Boathouse on Rydal Water. For this shot, taken prior to sunset, I donned my wellies and waded into the water to compose the shot, which was taken as 4 focus stacked images, eac using the Hi Res Mode of my Olympus.
Olympus Em1 mk2
Olympus 12-100 f4
Kase Polariser
Well, I did all the hard work spinning the wire wool while Gary pressed the shutter, but this was the view looking the other way out of the cave when I wasn't throwing fire about. Here is Gary's shot of me www.flickr.com/photos/100270227@N02/33251211816/
……Not caves at all really but an old Slate quarry which has left this huge cavernous opening under Loughrigg Fell in Cumbria, its usually a paddle or walk on stepping stones to get inside but once inside its quite dry for most part. Alan:-)………
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Rydal Beck in spate. An image made up of several exposures blended together to give an impression of a long exposure image.