Ring of bright water at Capel Curig
A very dear friend asked me the other day if I had a good time in North Wales. Of course, I should have answered "yes" [...]
Birling Gap to Beachy Head
My husband was on leave from work the other week, so I took the opportunity to get him out for a bit. With an old house on two [...]
Seven minutes
It's an odd title for a post, especially one of an English landscape. I called it seven minutes because that's how long the sun appeared for as I photographed this [...]
Winskill
Thinking about it now, no person in their right mind would take a short break in Yorkshire in late October, but I did. This was the first of what has become my yearly [...]
Curbar light
It's funny how your brain works. No... perhaps I should rephrase that. It's certainly funny how MY brain works as it took a car crash for me to remember a wonderful [...]
Derwentwater
So... it was the last morning of my stay in the Lake District and the wheels finally seemed to be coming off my bus. I had already taken a couple of stunning images at the [...]
Otter at Ullswater
Of course, I wish I really had been able to photograph an otter at this stunning location. The truth is that it really was there, just like the red squirrel I spotted on the shore [...]
Warnscale bothy
Honister pass has been in the news recently, having set the UK 24 hour rainfall record of 341.4 mm on 5th December 2015. Hard to believe that just over two months earlier [...]
Buttermere – the other end
Perhaps I should have called this "Buttermere - the end with the famous tree". Having seen a photograph of a lone tree [...]
Buttermere – the misty end
It was probably a blessing in disguise that I left Castlerigg at sunrise. It had been a cold night and as I drove out of Keswick, I could see plenty [...]
Castlerigg
The Sat Nav and I fell out again. It was now late afternoon and I was on my way back from Cathedral Quarry. There was no rush, but I had stopped to chat to one of [...]
Cathedral quarry
I was beginning to think someone didn't want me to visit this place. I only found out about the location shortly before my trip - a set of disused inter-linked quarries [...]
Blea Tarn
So the alarm went off at quarter past five in the morning and it took a few moments before I realised I was in the B&B in Keswick. My trip had barely started [...]
Surprise! Surprise!
The morning of Monday 28th September dawned bright and clear. Even though my husband was on leave that week, we got up at the normal time and did the zoo [...]
Brimham Rocks
Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire. They stand at a height of around 30 metres in an area owned by the National [...]
Ribblehead Viaduct
With just a few weeks to go until my trip to the Lake District, I find my thoughts going back to my very first short break with the camera. I had chosen to visit the Yorkshire [...]