I got back at the weekend from a week leading a landscape photography trip in the Lake District. Yes, that’s right. Last week…. in the Lake District….
Despite the awful forecast, we did actually get brief glimpses of sun and rainbows during the first day, but after that the forecast came true and it was pretty much non-stop rain. On the final day, after spending the morning sheltering from the rain, we returned back to the house we were staying in to discover the car park 2-feet under Derwent Water and the cars well and truly sinking.
A frantic few hours followed with a group of us wading up to our bottoms in the cold flood water, pushing the cars to relative safety. One had a fatal injury (couldn’t start the engine even after it had been rescued) and one had to be abandoned to fend off the floods by itself as we couldn’t release the handbreak. I was one of the fortunates as for some reason I had moved my car out of harm’s way earlier that morning (although I am feeling a small amount of survivor’s guilt over this).
I took a few photographs on the final morning, while waiting for the water to recede enough to make it back over the road bridge (as at this point we were trapped in the village with no way out) but as they were taken with my Hasselblad, I am still waiting for the film back from the lab. But here’s one of the back garden that I took from the safety of the conservatory on my iPhone.
All that wading in cold flood water has now taken it’s toll though as I have caught a bug of some description. I will survive, but I’m keeping a low profile and catching up on processing and album building while I recover. So please excuse the croaky voice if you call….
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