March has been a marvellous month for me, during this time I have been reasonably busy with my photography.
Wasdale
I started the month with a visit to Wasdale, which produced some reasonable photographs which I shared on social media, including a couple of drone shots.
Isle of Harris and Lewis
Shortly after this I set off the Isle of Harris and Lewis for a week’s photography on a workshop organised and delivered by Dean Allan Photography.
I had attended one of Deans workshops in Assynt a year before which was probably the best weeks photography ever.
We (Carole & me) had visited the Isle of Harris and Lewis once before for four days, this ended up being a very hectic few days chasing the honeypot locations. This inevitably lead to a huge amount of time being wasted by travelling from one location to another.
The plan behind booking onto Dean’s workshop was that he would take the hassle out of locating and finding the photo locations.
There are a (very) large number if images which I captured during this week, the plan is to create a specific blog post reflecting on this visit in the future, once I have completed editing them.
Woodland Bird Photography
Upon returning home, the photography continued with a visit to the Cumbria Woodland Photography Hide, it is a place that I have visited on many occasions.
Stephen and Linda have done a fantastic job in getting the hide up and running and securing the visit of the Sparrowhawks and the other small woodland birds.
On this visit, I was very fortunate to photograph a male and female Sparrowhawk, amongst the large number of small birds, I even managed to capture some in flight.
Low Rigg
Three days after the visit to the hide, I was off to visit Tewet Tarn, another place that I have been visiting for a few years.
I am specifically looking for a replacement image to use on my website, the one I have on show now is a really nice photograph, but I am conscious that it is becoming several years old, so a replacement would bring a nice update to the website.
After checking the weather gods, it looked very promising for a clear sunrise, with a smattering of cloud cover.
When I arrived at the Tarn, I was very hopeful, the sky was showing signs of pastel colours, just what I wanted, then within 5 minutes it was gone. The sky was ow a boring blue, with very little cloud cover.
Still, I was here so it was time to make the best of a bad situation, I took some photos of the Tarn from higher up on Low Rigg fell, then took a walk over the fell towards High Rigg fell.
I found a dead straight drystone wall which made a interesting leading line for another photo looking towards Blencathra.
A little later on I came across an area of Daffodil swich contracted against the surrounding colours, so I framed up a couple of shots using these as foreground interest.
Finally, I consulted the OS map to see what paths were local to me, I followed a bridleway back towards here the car, hoping to come across something worthwhile to photograph.
Sadly, nothing caught my eye, so it was a swift journey back home for some breakfast.
Blea Tarn
My next trip out was three days later, the 26th of March, again the forecast was looking favourable, so it was time for the long run to Blea Tarn.
The reason behind this choice was that I have a image on show on my website, but it has been there for a while, time for a re-fresh.
As I pulled up at Blea Tarn with the sunup and hitting the Langdale Pikes opposite, also, there were a few photographers already in place capturing their shots.
It was not long before I was in position on the lake shore and trying to find some reasonable foreground rocks, I hate having loads of them in the foreground.
Again, the only blight on the horizon was the lack of cloud cover, just a boring plain blue sky, not to worry, you have to work with what you are given.
Chatting to several of the fellow photographers, it was interesting to hear that they were on a four-day workshop in the Lakes organised via Jessops.
It was nice to chat with them to hear what and where they had been too in the previous days, and whet their plans were for the remainder of the day.
Back to the photography, I had moved location to try and create something different, shortly afterwards moving higher up the hillside to change the angle of the scene.
Once I had captured all that I needed, I took a short walk further around the lake where I took a couple of photos using the wooden fence as a leading line, and another close-up of a frozen inlet.
It was soon time to get back to the car and head home for a well-deserved bacon sarnie, the benefit of these early sunrises, a 4.30am alarm, but you are home by 10am.Thank you for finding the time to read my news post, until next time stay safe, and enjoy life.
