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Moss Rigg Wood Little Langdale

James — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:53:57 +0000

I’m really keen to explore more parts of the Lake District and make Landscape Photographic prints of new areas. I’ve been finding it all too easy to keep revisiting my favourite locations, or maybe locations that I know have potential or I’ve had success with in the past.

So, today I’m heading out to an area I’ve not shot before. I have visited part of this location before but as a teenager exploring not photographically. I am particularly keen to find the large quarry that you see in this area from Holme Fell.

You can see how I got on on todays shoot here in this blog below. I’ve posted a few of my favourite photos from todays shoot below.

All of the Framed Landscape Photography prints of the Little Langdale valley as featured in this blog are available as gallery quality framed prints. Please contact me for details. You can also see my range of framed prints from the wider Langdale are here in my gallery.

Lingmoor Fell Summer Evening Landscape Photography Shoot

James — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:06:39 +0000

Tonight I finally made it up on to Lingmoor Fell again for a summer Evening of Landscape Photography here in the Lake District. Ling is an old word for Heather apparently. Hence the name of the Fell, there is a lot of Heather up on Lingmoor. While I don’t confess to being a chaser of Heather I have wanted to capture a shot of the Heather on Lingmoor for a very long time. In fact, it was my first ever visit with my son Thomas back in 2010 when I first came across this place. Check that walk out here.

I made a vlog about my shoot tonight which I have embedded below. I won’t say too much here other than to share my pick of the images below and encourage you to watch the making of these images in the video. If you’re not a subscriber to my YouTube channel then head over to Youtube and subscribe to my channel as that is my platform of choice for sharing my work at the moment.

You can see more of my Landscapes from Lingmoor Fell here in my gallery.

Side Pike Summer Evening Landscape Photography

James — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:01:26 +0000

Ever since I purchased my Cambo Actus XCD I’ve been itching to get out with it in the Lake District. The last week I’ve been on various shoots along the Sefton Coast, a wonderful Summer evening at Crosby Beach, A frustrating evening on Ainsdale Dunes and a Superb Sunset Shoot in Southport. Tonight though I craved the Lakeland Fells and following on from my previous shoot up Holme Fell I was in search of another inspiring scene to make for an enjoyable evening of Landscape Photography here in the Lake District.

There was no plan for tonight other than to see how far I can get up Side Pike. Checking the weather it looked as though tonight would be the last dry night in a while and given I’m out of vlogs I wanted to get back out and make a new one for this weekend. Check out my vlogs on YouTube here.

For as long as I can remember I’ve missed the Heather Season in the Lake District. While I don’t chase it, like I don’t chase bluebells in the spring they do make for a colourful addition to the glorious greens of summer. The Langdale Valley is one of my regular locations for Landscape Photography here in the Lake District, it’s also an area I’ve had a lot of success in the past, probably due to the shear number of trips I’ve made here over the years.

Now that I have my Cambo Acttus XCD and my new lens to go with it, the Hasselblad CFE IF V mount lens I really can’t get away with my Peak Design Sling much longer. It’s full to the brim and too heavy to carry comfortably. For this evening I’ve decided to go back to my F-Stop Loka lightweight, only problem, it’s not so lightweight. I’ve also included a Hasselblad 80mm and 150mm V lens too incase any longer scenes jump out, in hindsight I should have left them in the Van to keep my pack weight down.

I struggled a bit with the walk, it’s fairly steep heading up Side Pike from the Cattlegrid at the top of the valley and the extra weight really caught me out, something to work on building up my strength and stamina for the future.

As I climbed up Side Pike it became apparent that the weather just wasn’t going to break, I was hoping for a shaft of light through the clouds or at least something to break up the flatness. It also looked like imminent rain too, I really didn’t fancy a soaking.

I made a vlog of tonights shoot which you can see below, I’ve also included some of my favourite images from the evening below too. All in all I was delighted with my Landscape Photography efforts from tonight on Side Pike. While the conditions weren’t as “Epic” as most landscape photographers crave, I was happy to be out, to be somewhere where I had to really work to find a composition and then to capture it the best I could. While the images I made may not win me any recognition they sow the seeds of a future image. I believe the composition is strong, the addition of some interesting light will really bring this scene to life. I’ll be back for this shot and hopefully it’ll be one of many I can make over the coming weeks as we transition from Summer to Autumn here in the Lake District.

The image below was made after I wrapped up the vlog.

Stay tuned for more content coming soon and feel free to check out my current range of Landscape Photography prints from the Langdale Valley here in my gallery.

Tarn Hows – March 2020

James — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:42:09 +0000

Today I wanted to spend some time around Tarn Hows, mainly for some fresh air but also to see if anything stood out for future reference. The weather was pretty awful for photography, drizzle adn flat lifeless light. A walk it was then. I managed to make a couple of shots, ironically not from Tarn Hows but on my way home. Not a complete write off then.

Langdale Boulders Sunrise Shoot

James — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:23:31 +0000

I spent a good hour stood around in sub zero temperatures waiting on the sun to rise and illuminate the Langdale Pikes above the Boulders here in the Lake District Today. A worthy investment in time.

My current collection of Framed Lake District Landscape Photographs featuring Langdale are available here.

Langdale Boulders Photography

James — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:37:06 +0000

I’d planned this Landscape Photography shoot to give me the best chance of capturing the warm low light on these iconic Lakeland Fells that are the Langdale Pikes. These images will make for beautiful large framed prints.

Check out my collection of framed Lake District Landscape Photography prints from the Langdale Valley here.