Hadrian's Wall Taxis

Weather hasn’t been as good as it should for August.Torrential rain and really cold, even when it wasn’t raining it was overcast, so I haven’t been out for sunrise since the beginning of the month.I’ve been wanting to get some stormy sky shots, hard as… . . . → Read More: Storm clouds gather

I was awake when TT got up for work and 4am so I decided I’d get up, drop him off at the farm, then go and takesome photographs.It looked foggy but with a nice sky above the fog so I headed for the highest point on Hadrian’s Wall, Winshields Crag.Got t… . . . → Read More: If only

Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK, opened by the Queen in 1982, surrounded by Kielder Forest and marketed as a holiday destination. It is also the site of England’s largest hydro electric plant.It’s some 16 year… . . . → Read More: Kielder Water

Another of the English Lake District lakes, Buttermere.For a change these photographs were taken in the middle of the day when TT and I decided to have one of our ‘away days’.It’s a flattish walk around the Lake and if you’re energetic, with good knee … . . . → Read More: Lake District: Buttermere

From Gilsland, it’s only an hours drive to Keswick and the north Lakes, so when the weather looked promising I set my alarm and headed off to Castlerigg Stone Circle.I’d checked the solar calculator and knew where the sun would be rising and after… . . . → Read More: Lake District

From my bathroom window at 4am this morning things looked promising towards Walltown.Clear sky and a 4 degree temperature should have guaranteed mist, and there was mist at Longbyre as I drove through with yet another Little Owl flying across my bows t… . . . → Read More: Hello Sunshine

I’d gone out to Cawfields Crag hoping to photograph some little birds like the Whinchats, but suprisingly few small birds around and those I could hear I couldn’t see.It doesn’t help that my eyesight is so poor, hearing is good though so I can uaually … . . . → Read More: Where Buzzards dare

I’ve had a horrible day for all sorts of reasons, things were going from bad to worse so I decided to get out and walk off my mood.Off to Winshields with my new compact camera, it’s one of those camera’s described as a bridge camera with a lens that al… . . . → Read More: Wheatears and Winshields

TT is normally awake before the alarm goes off but he must have been extra tired yesterday so we were both awakened at just after 4am by the ringing of that bell.As I was awake anyway, I decided I might as well go and take some photographs. I dropped h… . . . → Read More: Early one morning