Hardknott Roman Fort

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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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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