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Mar 14, 2017
Tarn Hows
I’d made a trip to the small Cumbria lake of Tarn Hows last autumn. What I didn’t realise on that day was that if I walked about two...
Mar 6, 2017
OMD-EM10 vs K20D – Olympus vs Pentax
My Olympus OMD-EM10 is out of action at the moment. I think the lens is broken but the camera has gone haywire because of it. I’ve gone...
Mar 1, 2017
Alderley Edge
Two shots taken today at Alderley Edge, before I was driven off by the rain and sleet the forecast said wasn’t going to happen. #cheshire...
Feb 8, 2017
The best view in Wales?
In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Solitude …in which we discuss how you can find one of the best views in Snowdonia with...
Dec 26, 2016
Stoodley Pike Sunset
With plenty of free time over Christmas I’ve been looking over old shoots that I haven’t fully processed. I found some from a session I...
Nov 22, 2016
Lymm Sunrise
Lymm is the village I live in, hidden away in a corner of an otherwise very busy area. It’s local beauty spot is called Lymm Dam, which...
Aug 15, 2016
Sensor cleaning
I’ve had spots on the sensor of my Pentax K20D for some time. In fact I think they were there for some years before I finally noticed. I...
Jun 24, 2016
Pen by Thor’s Buttress to Scafell Pike
Great Gable (Napes crags facing us), Kirk Fell left, Ennerdale behind, looking towards Grasmoor 15 km, 1000m ascent Grade 3 scrambling...
Jun 13, 2016
Roughing it part II
We left our hero on the hill after he’d settled down for a short night, with the alarm set for 4am ready for the sunrise. I didn’t get...
Mar 2, 2016
Nant Gwynant Spring
It was the first day of spring yesterday. I went to Nant Gwynant, along the road from Capel Curig to Beddgelert, and walked along the...
Feb 21, 2016
Cheshire, Beeston Castle
Cheshire continues to be a black and white location. I’d hoped for a good sunset but it turned cloudy and wet, hence the B+W treatment....
Oct 30, 2015
Little Langdale for Sunset
The day before my previous post I stationed myself at Little Langdale for the sunset. And a very nice sunset it was too. I used both the...
Oct 14, 2015
Thirlmere Autumn
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Happy Place.” The theme for the this week’s Daily Posts’s challenge “Happy...
Oct 6, 2015
Cloudy days in autumn
We have some good autumn colour around here. When it’s cloudy I like to focus on close-up shots to make the most of the colour....
Sep 29, 2015
Fog in the morning
A nice foggy morning in the autumn can make for good pictures or can simply be grey. You just have to go out and take your chance. Here’s...
Sep 28, 2015
Great Rock
Not far from where I live is a small piece of rock called Great Rock. El Capitan it isn’t. But there are good views up and down the...
Sep 27, 2015
Rock Park
There’s a place on the Mersey estuary, very close to where I grew up, called Rock Park. In the olden days it must have been a very...
Sep 26, 2015
Hardcastle Crags
I think you have to work to get autumn colour in this country. It doesn’t all come at the same time and in the same place so you have to...
Sep 22, 2015
Stoodley Pike and Hebden Bridge from Heptonstall
Our local monument, seen from Heptonstall, with Hebden Bridge in the valley below. Stoodley Pike from Heptonstall with Hebden Bridge...
Sep 2, 2015
The Valley of Desolation
There’s a little-known valley near Bolton Abbey called the Valley of Desolation, named after the damage caused by a storm in 1826. It’s...
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