Ken Rennie
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Borrowdale is one of the Lake Districts nicest valleys. It is a little more gentle than the area around Ullswater with the hills little more than a strenuous walk. This area is less than an hours drive from my home and has a variety of different locations with small steams and waterfalls and one lake, Derwentwater. I will start with a few gentle images. Before you start to think that is a sunfilled paradise it is the wettest part of England with the wettest day recorded at 1 ft and this after weeks of heavy rain, not up with "Florence" but it did flood many people out. we do not often get good shows of Autumn colour as storms usually strip the trees before the colours can develop. This year (2012) was an exception with the leaves lasting beyond the first snowfall.
As you can see we often get temperature inversions with flat calm water and mist hanging over the lake.
The next one was 2015 also in November
The problem that I find with this lake is the lack of foreground interest so getting depth is a little difficult.
Last one for this set is taken at the most popular location around here, Ashness bridge. This is a packhorse bridge of which there are many in the Lake District built when people transported goods on horses. It can be amusing when visitors come across one and discover that they need to drive over it or reverse back down very narrow roads on , for them, the wrong side.
Taken in Feb 2009 before the "fashion" for long exposure became popular. C & C always welcome Ken
The next one was 2015 also in November
Last one for this set is taken at the most popular location around here, Ashness bridge. This is a packhorse bridge of which there are many in the Lake District built when people transported goods on horses. It can be amusing when visitors come across one and discover that they need to drive over it or reverse back down very narrow roads on , for them, the wrong side.
