Back to Cumbria – The Amazing Lake District Landscape

I’ve not done that much “landscape” photography for a few years, concentrating more on developing styles with flash, architecture and cars.

However, with it being Autumn, I decided to invest a few days in the wonderful Lake district and recapture my love of the place. It’s certainly the highlight of England for my money, a mix of lakes and craggy mountains is hard to beat, even in the Dales.

Last time I was in the lakes, I was fixed on a certain style – very wide angled lenses, low angles, dark skies, lots of colour and just about everything followed that formula. The top shot in this blog is an example.

This time I was armed with long lenses – a 70-200 and 500mm lens – as well as the 17-40 ultra wide lens.

This gives you a whole new view of the lakes – the 500mm brings things into close view, mountain tops appear only meters away when you use that.

Here’s a shot with the 70-200 taken from Hardknott Pass – nice bit of rock detail brought out by the directional sunlight.

Panoramic shot of Langdale

Crumock Water

Ambleside at sunset

Crags in Langdale

Wrynose Pass

Duddon Valley

Bridge at between Wrynose and Hardknott passes

Layers of hills viewed from Hardknott Pass

Strange pool of light in Eskdale –

Isle of Man on the horizon too

Small random stream

Hardknott Pass

500mm lens on this one!

Pike O Stickle and Harrison Stickle with the 500mm lens, from miles away!

So there’s a few from day 1 of the trip, I’ve not got to editing anything from day 2 just yet, but will blog more.