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Rydal Water Autumn afternoon Landscape Photography Shoot

James — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:42:00 +0000

On my way home from Borrowdale as my last blog I got lucky as the wind and rain eased, I was blessed to see the sun today. It really did feel like a blessing as it’s quite difficult at times to muster up enthusiasm for Landscape Photography when you are been lashed with wind and rain.

As I approached Grasmere and Rydal I saw an opportunity to finally get my big camera out and make an image or 20. Initially, I stopped at Grasmere but decided to move on as I’d been there the other day, so felt a trip to Rydal would help mix it up a bit. Here’s how I got on…

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Rydal Cave – March 2020

James — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:33 +0000

A quick walk up to Rydal Cave today. I made a few shots form this walk but in my new found desire to only really show my best images or ones that at least tell some kind os story here is the one image I liked best.

Rydal Water Autumn Shoot 2019

James — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:42:36 +0000

A brief visit to Rydal Water this evening, a handy little location that has always inspired me photographically. Tonight I wandered around with no real intentions or visions of an image and I’m pretty pleased with what I encountered. Here are some go the shots I made tonight, but please check out the behind the scenes video that tells a more detailed story.

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Rydal Water Sunset Swim

James — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:36:53 +0000

Landscape Photography is a solitary pursuit for me most of the time. I try and encourage my children to come out with me for all the shoots I go on but only very rarely do they come along. Tonight was one of those rare nights i get to spend time with them and my camera in a place I love. The Lake District.

Today has been red hot and the idea of a paddle in Rydal was enough to tempt them along.

I re-composed this shot above into the shot below to allow the reflection of the middle rock to not intersect with the larger rock.

All of the Landscape Photographs from Rydal Water showcased in this blog post are available here on my website as archival quality framed prints on this link.

Rydal Water Evening Shoot

James — Sun, 20 May 2018 14:55:19 +0000

I’ve been hoping to capture more of Rydal Water ever since my morning shoot here last Autumn. Todays visit wasn’t for sunrise but in search of a sunset. It never materialised as is often the way, however it’s great to be here and to be able to get out so a success nonetheless.

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Rydal Water Landscapes

James — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:00:57 +0000

With the day’s becoming shorter and sunrise at a much more manageable time the opportunity to visit some of my favourite Lake District Locations for Landscape Photography is upon me.

September and October can be great months to capture the beauty of the Lake District Landscape with warm days and cool nights mist quiet often forms over the valleys and various Lakes and Tarns. Also the colours in the Landscape change from bright green to beautiful yellows, browns and reds. Autumn is certainly my favourite time of year for Landscape Photography and with my new desire to capture the amazing morning scenes we have here in the Lake District I headed out to Rydal Water in search of completing my desire to photograph a certain scene at this time of year. Here’s how it went.

Approaching Rydal Water and the Mist is there and nobody else so things are looking great.

In position as the sun rose in the distance.

A fellow photographer getting close to the Tree…

I was really lucky to be able to photograph this scene with these conditions having tried and failed several times already.

My Canon 5DSR setup.

That will do for this morning, very pleased with the results. So much so this shoot featured on the front cover of my 2016 Lake District Calendar.

I’ve made some of these Landscape Photographs available as Framed Lake District prints here.