It’s not been the most productive period of my photography journey over the past few months. I’ve documented why that is the case in a few of the more recent posts but I’m now starting to feel more like I want to get back in the saddle. So this last weekend I did effectively two things, (1) revisited a familiar location, and (2) got out for a walk with a friend in a new location.
The images that follow are a result of the photographs I took in both of things that I was able to do last weekend. The familiar location is a walk around what I call Buckhurst, this is because it’s a circular walk that used to include the Tea Pod at Buckhurst Lodgeside. Unfortunately the Tea Pod is no more. Don’t get me started. Revisiting this area is easy to do, its a walk with Charlie, he loves it and it is out into the countryside.
Given that I only work 3 days now, I have Mondays and Fridays to do what I want to do, this will include photography. The good thing about being mainly a landscape photographer is that the subjects are in the outdoors, with Mother Nature. The other benefit of landscape photography is that I can get out walking. This last Monday I met a friend and we agreed to go to walking and Scout Scar near Kendal was chosen as an easy route that had some opportunities to take images.
The pylons that carry electrical cables are all over the countryside in the UK, we are all familiar with them. They are just part of the normal life, and this is what struck me about the image above, the animals just going about their daily routines as the electricity flows.
I love wind turbines. This image has great leading lines but has several layers to it. Where does this road go? Unfortunately not to the Tea Pod any more.
180 degrees turn and you get this image, where does the road lead? In all honesty it was the tree that caught my eye.
On the top of Scout Scar is a viewing point, from which (in good weather) you get views all around, and the viewing point tells you what you can see. This is looking out northwards towards Scafell (amongst other fells). The low lying mist is what caught my eye with this image.
They do say that the weather can change very quickly in the Lake District and this was very true on Monday. 10 minutes before I took this image you could barely see the tree, let alone Morecambe Bay in the background.
Get low and include a large foreground interest, a wise photographer once said (well all the bloody time actually).
All these images are taken handheld with my Fuji X100V, using the Fujifilm simulation Classic Negative. I have tweaked the raw files a little to apply a little more muting to the colour palette.