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Another visit to Wastwater, this time a late afternoon vice early morning, you can never really tire of this place such is its beauty, surrounded by mountains and the huge screes that run down straight into the Lake, there's always something different on every visit be it the lighting or the colours, some great stormy clouds overhead on the visit lent themselves to a long exposure, during the exposure (just under 3 minutes) I got quite lucky with shafts of light illuminating different sections of the mountains for a decent amount of time so it registered in the final image and didn't leave any in full shadow.

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The harsh, rocky hills and the soft, boggy marsh around Wast Water in the Lake District.

The lake is almost 3 miles long (4.6 km) and more than a third of a mile (600 m) wide. It is the deepest lake in England at 258 feet (79 m), and is owned by the National Trust. It is one of the finest examples of a glacially 'over-deepened' valley.

The Wasdale Lady in the Lake, Margaret Hogg, was murdered and her body was disposed of in the lake. She was found after eight years, with her body preserved like wax due to the lack of oxygen in the water.

...but on a lighter note...

In February 2005 it was reported that a "gnome garden" complete with picket fence had been placed in the lake as a point of interest for divers to explore. It was removed from the bottom of Wastwater after three divers died in the late 1990s. It is thought the divers spent too much time too deep searching for the ornaments. Police divers report a rumour that the garden had been replaced at a depth beyond which they were allowed to dive. PC Kenny McMahon, a member of the North West Police Underwater Search Unit, said "Wastwater is quite clear at the bottom, but there's nothing to see. At a depth of about 48m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them. But several years ago there were a number of fatalities and the Lake District National Park Authority asked us to get rid of them. We went down there, put them in bags and removed the lot. But now there's a rumour about a new garden beyond the 50m depth limit. As police divers we can't legally dive any deeper so, if it exists, the new garden could have been purposefully put out of our reach." - Wikipedia

Five shot pano of Wastwater in the Lake District

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While working in the Lake District recently, I had the good fortune to stay at Bank House Farm at Hallthwaites. This was the view that greeted me as I stepped out of the front door every morning.

Apologies for being away for so long, but work keeps getting in the way of my photography. Now I'm back home, I'll try to remember where I left my camera ;o)

A beautiful little secluded rocky waterfall within dense woodland, found this hidden away little place on a walk and decided to set up and have a go at composing a shot, it looked pretty straight forward from the side, in reality it was anything but...

Getting into the water is always tricky but the water levels seemed to vary widly from one inch to the next coupled with the fact there was fallen branches everywhere I had to be really careful.. no sooner had I got into positon and set up I went to begin to set the camera up but in my haste I hadn't secured it with the lock on the tripod ... and off it came! freefalling towards the water.. anyone watching would have got a real treat as after some horrendously slapstick but lucky 'camera juggling' coupled with some fairly loud swearing saw me catch it after about 3 failed attempts about 1 inch above the water..... one of those heart stopping moments closely followed by extreme relief... followed by thinking you idiot...

It wouldn't be me if I didn't have some sort of mishap when I'm out and thankfully this time I lucked out and it didn't end up with a smashed up, wet, ruined camera and lens.

This was taken a while afterwards when the heartbeat had got back down under 200bpm :-)

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This was another great location on the recent Lakeland trip, tucked away well off the beaten track in Eskdale, the walk up to it with Brad Eide - www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08, and Mike - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk was great with some excellent scenic spots through the small wooded gorge that leads you to the end here at this waterfall.

I't a bit of a scramble down to this spot, made even more difficult with a big bag but worth it I think, although there didn't seem to be lots of spray I was so glad I actually got an image from here as when I'd got home despite constantly cleaning my lens / filters there were lots of images ruined by water spots, and of course they are always in the worst places possible...

This the end of the track up the gorge but there is a feint track up the left hand side of the falls as well (along with a sign that says no path) although we didn't venture up it it looks like people have and it's intruiging me now as to what the view is like looking back down the gorge from there, maybe next time....

A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch -

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Another image from the recent Lakeland trip with Mike Muddyboots - <a href="https://www.flickr.com , and Brad Eide over on holiday from America: www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/ and Mike Muddyboots: www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk This was a proper full on day of shooting from start to finish, luckily the heavitly overcast weather was ideal as this allowed us to shoot right through the day, even going for long exposures with no issues with the sun.

This is Hardknott Roman Fort, or rather the ruins of it, built under Hadrian's rule in the 2nd century, tucked away in an unforgiving and remote area of the Lake Distric,t it's really hard to imagine anyone living here let alone the legions of Roman soldiers who would have been stationed here..

We spent quite a while exploring the place and we all spent time shooting it from different angles, it really is a cracking spot with loads of photographic opportunities all over the place, we were really lucky with some of the light breaks too during the overcast weather, the key here was to just spend a good amount of time watching the weather and trying to guess what it was going to do before it did it so you could be ready to shoot, I reckon I got about 4 maybe 5 images from here that I'm really pleased with, which from one location on one visit is a great haul, this being the first one.

Definitely a place to return to with a few more ideas for shooting locations higher up the valley.

A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbghJ2rFhD8&feature=em-upload...

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This shot was composed so that our car, parked in the lay-by, was completely hidden by that large rock so that I didn't have to do any cloning in PhotoShop :o)

Reuploaded after yesterdays FlickR meltdown...

Following on from yesterdays shot from Hardknott Roman Fort....., yes, it's Hardknott Roman Fort again!, this time looking out with an overall view of the Fort ruins looking in the opposite direction with Birker Fell on the left, down through the Eskdale Valley and out to the coast at Ravenglass.

Myself, and the two others I was shooting with had a cracking time up here with the weather playing ball in as much as it didn't pour down on us somehow and gave us great dark, brooding moody skies to work with, - you can check out both of their websites here: Mike Muddyboots - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk , Brad Eide www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/

There's some really interesting stuff all round the Roman Fort including one small building that used to be the bath house and sauna! Given that this is a really exposed exposed area of the lakes that gets totally battered with high winds, heavy rain, and depp snow in Winter it struck me as being a curious place to have taken a bath and sauna! It went on to say how the sauna loosened up all the dirt on the skin so that it could then be easilyscraped off with a knife.... nice !! I don't suppose you would have the need of a cooling pool afterwards though, you'd just walk outside.... not for me!

Mike has also done a video vlog of our trip which he's posted up here - youtu.be/x8e8wu_TGIM - feel free to have a look and give him a follow, he's done a good job and he has the patience to do this kind of stuff, I don't, plus it would be more items for me to lose or break when outdoors, and I'm bad enough as it is :-)

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The view from Hallthwaites towards Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria.

A beautiful Autumn day in the domain of the fell walkers in the English Lake District. The pubs on the left are were hungry hikers arrive after climbing some of the highest peaks in the area, including Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain. In this view we see Kirk Fell and Great Gable.

Perhaps one of the lesser photographed lakes of the Lake District, because it takes a little more effort to get there. This was taken on a beautiful, clear Spring day, looking East.

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For all the walkers who make it to the summit of Scafell Pike (England's highest mountain) every year most will spend there time milling around the...

Paid a short visit to the Lake District for a quick scout round, probably a bad idea on a Bank Holiday Monday, no where to park in most places, Wastwater was one of the exceptions!

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This was a new location for me for shooting and one I have to say I really liked, so much potential here from both sides of the bridge, myself, Brad Eide - www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/ , and Mike Muddy Boots - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk had spent some time this day up at Stanley Ghyll falls which had been great (images to come) and we had decidced to walk back via here to check it out....

When we got here we all kind of had a look around for potential spots to shoot from as there was a large group of what can only be described as lunatics on the bridge jumping into the water with wetsuits on... as you do!! while they were busy getting wet it gave us time to slow down and pick our spots, and I decided on this one across the river, it looked ideal, but it didn't look ideal for getting to with a fence to climb and a big slippy looking bank to scamble down which ended abrubtly with a nice big drop into the water... amazingly (for me) this was dealt with without incident and resulted in this shot, Brad (wisely) I think thought he had better not go back to his wife with his arms and legs in plaster and decided to shoot from the opposite side with good results also.

This will definitelty be a great spot in Autumn and one I'll be coming back to to have a go at from Brads side, not long after this was taken it started to pour down so moving around for more images wasn't happening on this day.

Of note on top of the bridge on one of the parapets we noticed 2 markers carved into the stone where the river had flooded right over the top of the bridge!! one in 1890, and another one in 1962, that's some serious water level, we decided to press on just incase it happened again.

A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch -

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I always love coming here, whatever time of year, whatever the weather, it never fails to just blow you away with it's grandeur and drama, today was no different. Myself, Mike Muddyboots - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk/41776893231/in/datepos... , and Brad Eide over on holiday from America www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/ had had a really long (but very fruitful) days photography in the Lakes and this was our last area for the day, the lake wasn't still as we had hoped for but we had superb light and skies so plenty to be going on with.

While the others were shooting I was really struggling to find something to shoot which would be different from my previous images here, the yellow gorse bushes were really glowing in the sun but unfortunately none of them were in a decent position to get any kind of decent composition, so after 30 mins or so of walking around I eventually settled on this spot in the lake with the trusty wellies on :-), and decided to make the image all about the foreground while still getting some nice light on the mountains in the rear of the frame.

Just as we finished up here the light just died, totally flat, and it didn't return for sunset, as we drove off towards the head of the valley to try our luck we saw one lone photographer walking over the hill towards the lake with his tripod, couldn't help but feel sorry for him as he had missed the light totally, but, it would be hard to get fed up about such things in a place like this, still one of my favourite spots in all of the UK, I think Brad was suitably impressed too on his first visit. Brad made a remark to me about me being really lucky only living 1.5 hours drive away from the Lakes, oddly I'd never really thought of it in that way before (as I still considered it a bit of a long way), and I really shouldn't, because it isn't, 1.5 hours is nothing really, I guess living somewhere the size of the USA really makes the UK feel tiny, not something that I had really appreciated before, so thanks Brad!

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The farm track leading to Bank House Farm near Millom, Cumbria. Part of a small series of photos taken outside my accommodation when I was working in the area recently.

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The famous packhorse bridge at Wasdale Head.

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I found a few 'stragglers' from various parts of the Lake District that I'll upload over the next few days.

My Aurora hunting did not turn out particuarly well last night; too late and too much cloud and getting to bed far too late at 2AM. Never mind,...