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At the start of the ascent via Blacksail pass.. after a two and half hour walk from the car park, along this valley bottom.
.. the pine forest known as "the giant caterpillar" from the previous shot. This is the western side of the outcrop known as The Rigg on the Haweswater reservoir, where the pines are more spaced out allowing lush vegetation to grow.
Getting these Herdies to all smile and look at the camera at the same time is really, really hard..
This photo comes with a Cuteness Warning.. you have been warned :-)
Taken on Hart Crag on the Fairfield horseshoe.
One of the many stone bridges in the Lake District, this old packhorse bridge is near Ambleside and is a pedestrian bridge linking the church at Brathay to the main road on the other side of the river Brathay.
al volo sotto casa
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SOOC means Straight Out Of the Camera.
Thanks for taking time to fave, comment and look at my picture. I really appreciate it.
Rydal cave in the Lake District. The cave water somehow remains high enough to support a vast numbers of small fish, despite no obvious water source.
A thunderstorm arrived and marked the end to the six-week dry spell that the Lake District and much of the UK has experienced.
I have not had much time for photography recently but was fairly pleased with how my new phone handled night shots during a quick tour of the (ex-) Unesco World Heritage docklands site in Liverpool. Best not to zoom in though..
The shopping centre of Exeter. The illuminated benches in the foreground completely change colour constantly, I found this combination to be the most pleasing.
HBM!
The Lakeland store in Windermere caught my eye late in the blue hour the other night.. Happy Window Wednesday
Smile on Saturday#flora SOOC
(Straight Out Of Camera)
I'm taking this opportunity to tell you that this is how I see everything around me right now. I have a vision problem, I have cataracts in both eyes and I will have the first cataract surgery on my left eye in November and the surgery on my right eye in January. I am forbidden to strain my eyes in particular work on the computer and phone, as well as use the camera.
I'm not a very obedient patient, so at least one hour a day I have to take a picture or process a photo. Processing photos and writing is very tiring for me because I have to bring the monitor closer to my eyes at a distance of 15-20 cm. It was very hard for me to miss some topics that I love. I want to apologize for not writing comments under your wonderful photos and I hope you will understand me. If you are wondering how some of my pictures have such a clean focus, I will tell you that the secret is in the autofocus and the red dot that flashes in my viewfinder. When the red dot starts flashing, I shoot, and then comes the much more difficult part for me, processing the photos.
HSoS!
Haweswater is a reservoir built in the valley of Mardale. The controversial construction of the Haweswater dam was started in 1929, after Parliament passed an Act giving Manchester Corporation permission to build the reservoir to supply water for the urban conurbations of north-west England.
At the time there was much public outcry about the decision as the valley of Mardale was populated by the farming villages of Measand and Mardale Green, and the construction of the reservoir would mean that these villages would be flooded and lost, and the population would have to be moved. In addition the valley was considered one of the most picturesque in Westmorland, and many people thought it should be left alone.
All the farms and houses of the villages of Mardale and Measand, and the Dun Bull Inn were pulled down. Coffins were removed from the graveyard, and buried elsewhere, and Mardale church was demolished. At times of drought, when the water level is low, many people go back to see what is left of the village of Mardale.
Source: VisitCumbria.com
Happy windows Wednesday.
For completion, this is the other end of Sanderstead shopping parade. The barbers has a wonderful display of barbering tools and some very fine and expensive looking chairs. Given that they only opened a few months before the first lockdown, the financial suffering must be immense.
The poor campers below have just given up trying to erect their tent in the strong breeze. I couldn't help feeling they had chosen the wrong spot, as the wind was rushing up the valley and being channeled into Scandale Pass. And their tent was a very high sided affair.
The slopes of Red Screes are on the left and High Crag and Low Crag on the eastern edge of the Fairfield horseshoe on the right. The lake in the distance is Windermere.
..at All Saints church, Sanderstead.
A lytch-gate is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard. The term lych comes from Old English for corpse, and the corpse-gate was the route that the dead would take when being taken for burial in the churchyard.
I couldn't find any information about how old this lytch-gate is, but England's oldest lytch-gate is not far from here, in Beckenham.