Biggest Mountain

Another long-overdue post, this time of the best (in my humble opinion, anyway!) of my trip to the Lake District last August. As you can see, I had some cracking weather, ideal for some great landscape photography, & I walked & climbed over 48 miles & numerous fells over the 9 days. I completed the quartet of English 3,000'-ers with my ascent of Scafell from Eskdale, climbed some other new conquests like High Street & High Stile, & revisited my favourite Great Gable, although the cloud robbed me of a decent view that day. It was a fantastic trip though, & there's still so much I haven't explored there yet – I was already planning the walks for my next trip before I'd even left to come home! Enjoy.

Snowballed

Now that we've finally got something approaching a decent winter for the first time in years, it seemed only right & proper to capture it in the photographic form. It was -6˚C when I took these (even though the sun was out), but the light was superb & the sun sparkled off the snow beautifully – I could have spent hours just wandering the fields & taking photos, but had to stop when I could no longer feel my fingers! I think my favourite is 3484.

I took these the day before in Cambridge, but the weather had gone very gloomy & it had started snowing again, so I didn't expect great things from them, but after a bit of a tweak in Lightroom they scrubbed-up quite nicely.