the Photo thread

[Bruce Rioja]

Has he just sniffed some shit here, Roy Hodgson?

[clapton is god]

The Langdales looking good today. Set off from home at 6.30 and back home by 2pm!

[Hoboh]

The Langdales looking good today. Set off from home at 6.30 and back home by 2pm!

Going to put my bike over there next spring/summer, God willing.

[TANGODANCER]

That's really beautiful Clapton. Both the scenery and the pic.

[Dujon]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

[clapton is god]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

I sat there nearly an hour waiting for the shadow of the hill I was on to creep clear of the white buildings. I can think of worse places to sit and watch the world go by! Whilst there I heard a tremendous noise as an RAF jet shot past me. I jumped up, camera in hand but I never saw the thing. I can only think it was below me close to the face of the hill I was on.

[thebish]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

I sat there nearly an hour waiting for the shadow of the hill I was on to creep clear of the white buildings. I can think of worse places to sit and watch the world go by! Whilst there I heard a tremendous noise as an RAF jet shot past me. I jumped up, camera in hand but I never saw the thing. I can only think it was below me close to the face of the hill I was on.

those colours are lush! certainly worth the wait. I'd say!

[bobo the clown]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

I sat there nearly an hour waiting for the shadow of the hill I was on to creep clear of the white buildings. I can think of worse places to sit and watch the world go by! Whilst there I heard a tremendous noise as an RAF jet shot past me. I jumped up, camera in hand but I never saw the thing. I can only think it was below me close to the face of the hill I was on.

Superb photo Clappers.

Looking at that crag above the white farmhouse bring to mind a thought I have now and again .... that it's perfectly possible that no human, literally none since the dawn of humanity, has ever stepped foot on some of that. Ever.

I don't know why but that is a thought which fills me with awe.

[thebish]

Looking at that crag above the white farmhouse bring to mind a thought I have now and again .... that it's perfectly possible that no human, literally none since the dawn of humanity, has ever stepped foot on some of that. Ever.

I don't know why but that is a thought which fills me with awe.

that's a thought I often have when out walking on Dartmoor...

it's coupled with the opposite thought - when walking ancient pathways - tracks that go back hundreds (if not thousands) of years - that I am walking exactly in the spot that a medieval traveler once walked...

both thoughts fill me with a sense of awe - even though they are kind-of opposites!

[clapton is god]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

I sat there nearly an hour waiting for the shadow of the hill I was on to creep clear of the white buildings. I can think of worse places to sit and watch the world go by! Whilst there I heard a tremendous noise as an RAF jet shot past me. I jumped up, camera in hand but I never saw the thing. I can only think it was below me close to the face of the hill I was on.

Superb photo Clappers.

Looking at that crag above the white farmhouse bring to mind a thought I have now and again .... that it's perfectly possible that no human, literally none since the dawn of humanity, has ever stepped foot on some of that. Ever.

I don't know why but that is a thought which fills me with awe.

That white building to the left is a farm but the one to the right is The Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel, a very notable walkers halt after a hard day on the fells and one where I have spent the night several times. The pointy bit to the left of the main fell in the image is Pike O'Stickle and just this side of that is a tremendous scree shoot, which has proved to be the site of an ancient axe head factory, the product of which has been found in bronze age settlements all over Europe, so your observation is a little more accurate than you might have imagined.

I never fail to get that feeling of awe when in the Lakes. I have been going since I was 17 and for a ten year period around the 90's was there upwards of 20 times a year, now only maybe 8-10 times a year, but it never fails to rejuvenate me. Love it!

A couple of weeks ago I put a photo of a 'stop the car!' moment up here. This one, below, taken 20 feet to the right of that previous one, is currently at the framers and will be on my wall this afternoon:

[TANGODANCER]

With your permission I'd like to use you fantastic pic to copy as a painting, Clapton. If you're happy with that, can you title its location?

[clapton is god]

With your permission I'd like to use you fantastic pic to copy as a painting, Clapton. If you're happy with that, can you title its location?

No problem, Tango. The one above is the Coniston fells from the south near Tottlebank, I believe. I'd be interested to see what you make of it eventually.

[TANGODANCER]

With your permission I'd like to use you fantastic pic to copy as a painting, Clapton. If you're happy with that, can you title its location?

No problem, Tango. The one above is the Coniston fells from the south near Tottlebank, I believe. I'd be interested to see what you make of it eventually.

Excellent. Take a day or two but I'll post the result. Thanks.

[Dujon]

'Struth, TANGO, you've set yourself a task and a half there. I doubt that any water-colourist in the world could do justice to the job. In fact, when it pops up on my screen, due to the compression into a mere 800+ kilobytes, it looks like a water colour rendering. The subtle pastels of the fells shading into the vibrant foreground colours must have been something to behold 'in the flesh'. Anyway, good luck with the challenge.

Clappers, I have few regrets of leaving England but one of them is that I never visited the Lake District. Perhaps it's because my paternal grandmother gave me a book for my thirteenth birthday (I had been living here for a couple years then) titled The English Lake District in pictures. I spent many hours poring over the images even though they are all B&W. I still have the book; on the inside flap of the dust cover lies proudly the price - 12/6. I have been pondering over what that amount would have bought in 1957 - it would most certainly have been a lot more than it would today. Still, I've had 'my' money's worth out of it.

[TANGODANCER]

'Struth, TANGO, you've set yourself a task and a half there. I doubt that any water-colourist in the world could do justice to the job.

Ha, Mr Turner no doubt could. But I'm not looking to reproduce a photographic work, Dujon. Clapton's done that a million times better than I ever could. I just want to do an impression of the overall scene. Already started on it.

[clapton is god]

Dujon, my file name for the image is 'pastel shades' so we are both on the same lines there. I've had many Lakeland books over the years, and most have gone on to the Oxfam shop now, but I still cling on to my set of Wainwrights, which will leave the house with me in my wooden box. His simple line drawings have never been bettered and from time to time I have realised as I looked at a scene that I must be stood in his footprints. In fact the relevant Wainwright (one of the seven guidebooks) still gets chucked into the rucksack every time I go to the Lakes, and he started the series over 50 years ago. After his first book appeared on the shelves there was something of an outcry amongst the locals who foresaw a huge increase in traffic over their land. One angry farmer is said to have confronted Wainwright who had written something like "....and turn left through the brown gate." The farmer is reported to have said "I've fixed you, yer bugger, I've painted yon gate black!"

And Tango, my wife does a Wednesday morning art class in watercolours and I felt sure she would want a crack at this one but no, the class has moved on and it was of no interest to her. I think she'll tackle it eventually though.

And, photographers secrets: The scene is pretty much as I saw it but no picture is perfect straight out of the camera. It has been brightened a shade and some vibrance added. There was a telegraph pole in the mid distance, near the cattle, with wires going left and right and I have removed them. Where the wall and hedge meet in the foreground there was a green tree rising right to the next wall/hedge and I have removed that too. That bothered me for a while as the image did not look balanced with it in. It looks much better without and its absence opens up the sweeping view through the centre right through to the mountains. Oh, and the leftmost sheep is an addition too.

[thebish]

And, photographers secrets: The scene is pretty much as I saw it but no picture is perfect straight out of the camera. It has been brightened a shade and some vibrance added. There was a telegraph pole in the mid distance, near the cattle, with wires going left and right and I have removed them. Where the wall and hedge meet in the foreground there was a green tree rising right to the next wall/hedge and I have removed that too. That bothered me for a while as the image did not look balanced with it in. It looks much better without and its absence opens up the sweeping view through the centre right through to the mountains. Oh, and the leftmost sheep is an addition too.

you don't know how much of a relief it is to hear that!

[clapton is god]

And, photographers secrets: The scene is pretty much as I saw it but no picture is perfect straight out of the camera. It has been brightened a shade and some vibrance added. There was a telegraph pole in the mid distance, near the cattle, with wires going left and right and I have removed them. Where the wall and hedge meet in the foreground there was a green tree rising right to the next wall/hedge and I have removed that too. That bothered me for a while as the image did not look balanced with it in. It looks much better without and its absence opens up the sweeping view through the centre right through to the mountains. Oh, and the leftmost sheep is an addition too.

you don't know how much of a relief it is to hear that!

Much of the magic is in post, but it has to be there in the first place to reveal it.

[TANGODANCER]

And Tango, my wife does a Wednesday morning art class in watercolours and I felt sure she would want a crack at this one but no, the class has moved on and it was of no interest to her. I think she'll tackle it eventually though.

And, photographers secrets: The scene is pretty much as I saw it but no picture is perfect straight out of the camera. It has been brightened a shade and some vibrance added. There was a telegraph pole in the mid distance, near the cattle, with wires going left and right and I have removed them. Where the wall and hedge meet in the foreground there was a green tree rising right to the next wall/hedge and I have removed that too. That bothered me for a while as the image did not look balanced with it in. It looks much better without and its absence opens up the sweeping view through the centre right through to the mountains. Oh, and the leftmost sheep is an addition too.

When I saved the pic to My Images to work from, I noted the title "Pastel Shades with tree removed" and wondered. One of the reasons I don't want to try for an exact copy is that light is forever changing and even on a pc screen it appears different in daylight than by electric light. I want to get the essence of your scene with my own stamp, if you will. I doubt, as Dujon noted, that paint could ever reproduce colours to match those.

[Hoboh]

Thanks for posting that image, Clappers, I've spent the last five minutes enjoying it.

I sat there nearly an hour waiting for the shadow of the hill I was on to creep clear of the white buildings. I can think of worse places to sit and watch the world go by! Whilst there I heard a tremendous noise as an RAF jet shot past me. I jumped up, camera in hand but I never saw the thing. I can only think it was below me close to the face of the hill I was on.

Superb photo Clappers.

Looking at that crag above the white farmhouse bring to mind a thought I have now and again .... that it's perfectly possible that no human, literally none since the dawn of humanity, has ever stepped foot on some of that. Ever.

I don't know why but that is a thought which fills me with awe.

That white building to the left is a farm but the one to the right is The Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel, a very notable walkers halt after a hard day on the fells and one where I have spent the night several times. The pointy bit to the left of the main fell in the image is Pike O'Stickle and just this side of that is a tremendous scree shoot, which has proved to be the site of an ancient axe head factory, the product of which has been found in bronze age settlements all over Europe, so your observation is a little more accurate than you might have imagined.

I never fail to get that feeling of awe when in the Lakes. I have been going since I was 17 and for a ten year period around the 90's was there upwards of 20 times a year, now only maybe 8-10 times a year, but it never fails to rejuvenate me. Love it!

A couple of weeks ago I put a photo of a 'stop the car!' moment up here. This one, below, taken 20 feet to the right of that previous one, is currently at the framers and will be on my wall this afternoon:

Fcuking awesome!!!!