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Lake District floods

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...

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I am still here…

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...

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Blowing Gales in the Lake District

The sky had been a solid shade of mid-grey for a few days, leaving me feeling uninspired and a bit restless. However, when I woke to rain on my last day in the Lake District, I was hopeful that I might finally be able to take a photograph. Not in the pouring rain, but rain...

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Rising Early for Dawn at Blea Tarn

The alarm clock jolted me out of my sleep at 4:30am. It was already light outside, but the sun hadn’t yet actually risen. After a couple of minutes of debating “should I, shouldn’t I” in my head, I eventually gave in to myself and got up, quickly got dressed and picked up my camera bag...

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Time to Take Stock

Last month I took the step that a lot of photographers have already done. I bought myself a digital SLR camera. I am not replacing my trusty and much loved Hasselblad, but rather this new camera should compliment it instead. I have found that in some circumstances it’s not practical, or even possible, to carry...

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