Eden

Pre dawn at Ullswater, a bit a a break from the Icelandic images, ironically this was a heck of a lot colder than Iceland was!

Last week Myself, Geoff Moore, Mark Waidson, and Mike (Muddyboots) headed off to the Isle of Skye for a few days in what turned out to be a fantastic trip where the weather somehow played ball for us everyday.

On the way up we decided to stop off here for a sunrise shoot, it had been several years since I shot this location and I've never had conditions like this here, it had been down to minus 10 on the way up over Shap and this made for some great ice and frost around the lake giving some different foreground options.

This one was shot pre sunrise, we got some great light when the sun came up over the hills too but I really like the cold, still feeling to this image.

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Just up the path from Aira Force, I prefer this one!

Happy New Year Everyone! Another Shot of the Duke of Portland Boathouse from my last visit to the Lake District.

A five shot stitched panorama of Haweswater reservoir in the Lake District. Bitterly cold, with an awkward accent and treacherous return down the...

Dawn breaks at the North end of Ullswater over the boathouse situated near to Pooley Bridge, a lot shorter expsoure than the last shot at just 23 seconds, the light having increased considerably now, a lovely still morning unfolds over the misty Lake.

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Morning sun hits the hill and the Duke of Portland boathouse on Ullswater Lake in the English Lake District. It is perhaps the most photographed building in the area and nowadays it is a vacation cottage you can rent.

Pooley Bridge,

A beautiful early morning scene on Brothers Water, the sun had just begun to come over the fell tops and fall down onto the area, there was a load of low lying moving mist this morning and the sun has just started to hit it and the rocks on the shoreline, causing the mist to rise upwards even more.

Myself and Mike (Muddy Boots) - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk had decided to come here after shooting sunrise on Ullswater and I'm really pleased that we did as the light that followed was just superb, allowing to get 3-4 shots I'm pleased with from one location which is really rare to say the least, this one was a bit of a nightmare exposure wise with the sunlit mist very easy to blow out against the dark backdrop of the fells to the rear.

Something I honestly never knew until recently, 'Brothers Water' used to be called 'Broad Water', but the name was changed after 2 brothers drowned in it in the 19th Century..

Mike's done a Youtube video of the trip which actually includes this bit - you can it see here, give it a watch it's really good. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVZ389TxrTM&feature=youtu.be

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One of those rare moments when it all comes together. The forecast was for a cold, clear morning, so the snow and clouds were a complete surprise and...

Taken between showers at Yew Crag overlooking Ullswater. You wouldn't believe that the sky had been blue all day. Typical Cumbrian weather. Drama all...

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Is it just me or has Explore gone down the pan............? And I should have spent more time listening to Rocket from the Crypt.

Following on from the last image, this was a very impromptu trip out, and it has to be said probably the single most fruitful photography trip I have ever had in such a small amount of time.

While we were here shooting the mist on Brothers Water I kept looking back urther along the Lake, tried various things but there wasn't really any sort of composition I was happy with but I knew there was an image to be had somewhere, as I remarked to Mike at the time. As the sun rose higher and was hitting the mountain tops it started cascading further down from the perfect angle, and for a few moments it lit the entire of the shoreline here illuminating all the reeds and trees while the mountains to the rear were still in shadow and the whole matching contasting scene was reflected perfectly into the still lake....

A quick run up the shoreline ensued and I knew exactly what I wanted to shoot, big lens on and zoomed into the far end of it, it turned out to be a 10 shot vertical panorama of the scene.

Shortly afterwards the scene had changed entirely and the moment was gone, always pays to keep looking around.

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Ullwater, just after sunrise, a perfectly calm morning and load of low lying mist, magic.

I'd spotted this boat earlier this morning on the way to photograph sunrise further up the lake, I could only hope that the low mist would still be around by the time I got back here, as it happens it was as although the sun had risen it had yet to clear the top of the mountainsides here.

Myself and Mike (Muddyboots) - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk spent a short while here shooting, this one being my favourite from here.

You can imagine just how peaceful the scene was here, you could literally hear a pin drop, the odd bird making a noise but literally complete silence, that was until there was a strange screeching sound further down the lakes followed by what sounded like an enourmous explosion, almost jumped out of my skin!! we both looked at each other to say what on earth was that!! no sign of anything at all, the noise stopped and that was that....

about 20 minutes later we were driving towards Brothers Water and we came to Glenridding village, on the outskirts was a completely smashed to bits car wrapped around the metal fencing on a bend with a guy stood on the roadside with somebody else with him, that will be that then!!

We later learned (from the guy that was with him) that he said he had 'swerved to avoid something', I had a 'bit' (lot) of doubt about this bearing in mind the noise we heard, it was a 30mph road, and the absolute state of his car told another story...

Guess he won't be doing that again in a hurry !

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Morning reflections

Here's an image that I took today at 4pm after a huge bank of mist rolled in over Ullswater from the north. I was wrapping up my one day workshop to...

It was a sensational day in Lakeland yesterday. We went to Mardale to bag the few Far Eastern Fells we had left. This was the view from the road just...