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.

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Ideally I’d have made it up here a month earlier as the Heather that covers Lingmoor is a beautiful vibrant purple, there were patches left but largely it has gone by mid September this year. However, the view remains the same and as the colours on the fells start to turn brown and the light is a little more golden at the end of the day I wanted to see this location I’ve visited a few times previously, but not at the end of the day when hopefully the fells will come alive with golden browns and illuminate this amazing scene.

Here’s how I got on and make sure you check out the video at the bottom of this post for a snapshot of the walk and some aerial footage too.

Below Side Pike at the start of the ascent, Rowan Trees lead the way. Three to pass as my first goal.

Number 2 and 3 Rowan Trees reached. 162 BMP my heart rate got too on this climb, much more and I could have easily passed out.

Taking a moment to rest and take in the view over Blea Tarn towards Weatherlam.

Thomas and Lewis charging ahead up towards Lingmoor, Side Pike behind us now.

Over the dry stone wall to the Langdale Pikes. The lights getting good now. Hoping it stays a little longer.

A beautiful view of the Langdale Pikes over the wall…

…including Side Pike on the left hand side really makes this composition for me.

At the Stile and can’t resist another shot of this scene…

…or two…

Using my fixed 35mm lens means switching to portrait orientation for more foreground.

Climbing up Lingmoor now and the views just get better and better as well as the light.

Up on the Heather covered ridge of Lingmoor.

Looking over the Langdale Valley to the high fells beyond.

Where the fence meets the wall. Looking straight on to the Langdale Pikes.

Just a bit more height and I’ll have the composition I want.

The view starts to open up now with a little more height.

Fence and Wall

This is far enough tonight. The light is disappearing behind cloud over Crinkle Crags so I set up and make the best of the light.

A flat scene at the moment. Here’s hoping for one last blast of light.

Here it comes one last sight of the sun.

There we go, just what’s needed. Not the light I expected on the Langdale Pikes and Side Pike but happy just to be up here.

and it’s gone. A few moments of light. Good job I stopped and setup or the extra time it would have taken me to climb higher would have missed this, the light didn’t reach the area I wanted anyway so probably the best of what was around for tonight. That’s how I justify it to myself anyway.

Experimenting with High Dynamic Range. Not so sure…

The last of the light above Crinkle Crags.

The odd patch of light illuminates an outcrop above Lingmoor Tarn. Time to head back.

Side Pike at the end of the wall.

A wider perspective showing the surrounding area, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Langdale Pikes above Side Pike and the Langdale Valley.

Losing the light now.

That’s it from Lingmoor tonight. I needed this walk and what a beautiful setting. I’ll come back earlier next year to capture the Heather in flower.

Here’s a short video I have put together from my walk up Lingmoor Fell

You can see my current collection of Lake District Prints featuring Lingmoor Fell, Side Pike and the Langdale Pikes here in my gallery.

I’ve been here a couple of times before. Only once with my camera however. I’ve been looking to visit here on a morning with the light illuminating the bridge from what I consider the best composition of the bridge which is slightly downstream of the bridge as seen below.

I use an app on my iPhone called the Photographers Ephemeris (TPE) which advises you on the position of the sun on any given day, time and location. It’s a must for any Landscape Photographer.

As you can see on the image below taken from the App. The wide yellow line indicates sunset and the thinner yellow line the position of the sun at the time suggested in the box below. You drag the box and the lines move. In relation to the Suns position. Also extremely useful is the angle of the sun too. I consider 20 degrees to be the start of the best light of the day. It just gets better as it lowers after that. Using the information below I could see the sun should illuminate Lingmoor Fell over Little Langdale Tarn from the side until sunset. There is a feature in the App where you can specify shadows from nearby objects such as tall buildings and mountains and at what time you’d lose the sun. I haven’t figured out how to do this just yet but knew if I were in position from 16:24 as the sun hits 20 degrees I should be best placed to see he best of the light as the sunsets.

That’s the theory. Here’s how it turned out. I made this short video to compliment the photos here

Walking down the lane towards the Bridge.

The Three Shires Inn, Little Langdale.

We’re heading in that direction. Weatherlam is the largest fell in the distance.

Turn left at this row of Lakeland Cottages…

Past the red garage…

I could live there.

Blackberry season.

This lane eventually leads to a Ford so its advisable to walk it.

Blink and you’ll miss the sign for Slater’s Bridge.

Heading through the gate and up the field following this decent path.

The tracks lead all the way to the Bridge.

Looks like there is enough time to capture the last of the light. Just.

The remains of the local quarries.

Forst sighting of Slaters Bridge.

Here we are.

This is the composition I like. Now let’s see what happens as the sun sets.

Lingmoor Fell over Slaters Bridge.

A long exposure shot looking upstream.

I didn’t manage to capture the scene I had in my mind with the last of the light skimming to top of Lingmoor. However the light in general was beautiful and Im pleased with how these images have turned out.

On the short walk back to the car I was surprised to see this beautiful large Super Moon. See the house lower right for scale.

A close up.

Back to the Three Shires Inn and home.

You can see more of my Lake District Landscape Prints from Little Langdale here.

A 360 degree Panoramic Image from the Summit of Lingmoor.

Pavey Ark part of the Langdale Pikes.

The summit ridge.

The path runs along the fence and wall which makes for perfect lead-in lines to the Langdale Pikes.

Ling is an old world for Heather. Lingmoor Fell…

A brilliant walk and some of the finest views in the South Lakes. If you’d like to see my current collection of Prints from Langdale click here.

My latest Lake District Photographs are from just up the road from Elterwater, my last location. Langdale is regarded as one of the most beautiful locations in the Lakes with the Great Langdale valley and Little Langdale valley separated by Lingmoor Fell and the valley of Mickleden tucked away in the North West corner.

The beauty of this location is the combination of great looking fells, wonderful views and all in such a compact area. The Lake District in miniature. Blea Tarn has long been a favourite location of mine, I can remember the first time I visited about 15 years ago and I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been since, for a location so easily accessible it’s a true gem.

Blea Tarn, Lake District Prints

August 2010 will go down as a key milestone for us, my 5 year old son Thomas ticked off his first Wainwright when we headed up Lingmoor Fell above Blea tarn. It’s a fell I’ve been meaning to explore for a while and given its location and what surrounds it; there are countless opportunities for landscape photography.

A favourite location of mine is just above the National Trust Car Park at Blea Tarn as seen below in late winter and again in spring and summer. I imagine I’ll be making several more trips over the coming months to get Autumnal shots too.

Blea Tarn, Langdale

Blea Tarn in Summer, Langdale

Above Blea Tarn

The walk was a complete success, which I interpret as no carrying, no crying great photography and a family memory that I shall hold on to dearly. A realization that we’re going to have many happy days on the Lakeland fells for the years to come is an exciting prospect for me. Fell walking with a 5 year old is certainly interesting and worthy of further posts as a subject in its own right.

After a brief lunch stop just below the summit we see our first cairn, and as young boys do they have to build stuff so we invent a new game of putting the highest stone on the pile.

At the summit of Lingmoor fell you are rewarded with such a fine vista for a relatively straight forward climb, panoramic views over the Langdale valley, The Langdale Pikes, Pike o Blisco, Great Carrs, Swirl How and Wetherlam above Wrynose Pass and round to Coniston and Windermere as this 360 degree panorama shows.

On reaching the summit the sense of achievement brought out an emotional song and you can tell he was well pleased with himself, and rightly so it was a great achievement.

As you head along the summit ridge towards the Langdale Pikes you are treated to glimpses of the fine views awaiting as you get closer to the decent to Side Pike.

There’s so much heather up on Lingmoor Fell and I believe that’s where the fells name comes from with the Old Norse word lyng meaning “heather covered”

As you approach the descent toward Side Pike you are greeted with what I’m considering to be one of the finest views of this particular area if not the entire Lake District, for me this viewpoint has pretty much everything that you can compose to make a stunning shot. Great lead in foreground features, attractive mid and background features, such as Pike O Stickle, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark that make up the photogenic Langdale Pikes; the band leading up to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags, Pike O Blisco, Wrynose Fell and back round to Blea Tarn.

Side Pike and the Langdale Pikes – Lake District Prints

For an August afternoon the light was pretty good, patches of cloud helped to cast highlights and shadows across the distant fells and exaggerate their contours. After the third or forth “Dad come on” we descended towards Side Pike, here you have 2 choices, continue to descend onto the road just up from Wordsworth’s Solitary Blea Tarn House or continue across the south face of Side Pike. The only problem with that is there’s a large rock in the way of the path and having not passed it before was unsure if it was suitable for a 5 year old. We headed up there for a look and before I knew it he’d gone right through the gap, turned and said “Come on its easy”

Following the path round Side Pike reveals another stunning viewpoint over the Langdale Pikes and Mickleden, the two hotels the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel http://www.dungeon-ghyll.co.uk and the Old dungeon Ghyll hotel http://www.odg.co.uk are directly below the thought of a cool drink in the afternoon sun was getting close.

Lake District Prints of Langdale.

We descended to the road and picked up the path around the west side of Blea Tarn, where you can see the entire route of the walk and the scale of what we’ve achieved. Back to the car with 4 minutes to spare on the parking ticket and off to the pub for two lemonades with Ice and a plan for our next outing. A perfect day out in the lake District.

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