Photos - Buttermere

If you're a regular reader you'll know by now how much my (landscape) photographic output dwindles during the summer months. Until about July anyway... (read more)

As you know I'm normally drawn to pitching camp on tops of things rather than half way up them, but I think High Snockrigg, just off the top of Robinson, offers just as fine a viewpoint... (read more)

Winter has belatedly (yay!) arrived in the Lake District this week... (read more)

'Those hours between night and day are always a keen challenge to one's courage. One's body goes mechanically through the correct movements essential to gaining height; but the spirit is not yet awake nor full of the joy of climbing...' - Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider Don't worry.... (read more)

It feels like weeks since I’ve actually been out for a serious photoshoot. And by that I mean either the ‘wake up on top of  a mountain in a tent’ kind or the ‘headtorch walk up a mountain in the dark’ kind. Recently I’ve been spending lots of time behind the screen building up various stock collections, Alamy in particular (you can see my collection here), all of which is admirably productive, and a means to an end, but spirit crushingly tedious for those of us with our heads in the hills. The plan, as usual was to ascend a nice big hill with (read more)