Back in November, I was assisting on a landscape photography course in the Lake District. To say that the weather was awful is perhaps a bit of an understatement, as anyone who regularly reads my blog will already know that we got caught up in the terrible floods that happened. We even got trapped in the village as the only way out over the bridge was completely submerged and a couple of 4×4′s who decided to brave it got washed to the side by the strong current. Several of those on the course had their cars completely flooded in the carpark, and the back garden of the house we were staying in was half under water as Derwentwater severely burst its banks.
During these trips, I often don’t get a huge amount of time to make my own landscape images as I am helping everyone else. But on the first morning, a few of us got up early to photograph the sunrise. Of course, that never happened, due to the big grey clouds continuously covering the sky, but where the lake had flooded into the garden, trees and plants were poking their heads out of the water.
We woke up the next morning to photograph at dawn again, but by then the plants were all completely submerged. Only the trees were left with their tall trunks above the surface.
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