Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Richard, Colin and B.D., Thanks for all the positive comments. Has no-one anything negative to say? :-) It's a fabulous area of the country, and we were lucky with the weather. It has a reputation for being very wet almost any time of the year, and getting good landscape vistas under those circumstances is much more difficult. I'm glad I had it easy! Simon. On 3/16/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > > Visited many of the same places just two years ago myself. Going > through your photos, it was fun to see the area through another's > eyes. I stayed at the Derwentwater Hotel. We may have even shot > some the same subjects. That tree at Bassenthwalte looks very > familiar. > > Couldn't possibly find anything to criticize. I particularly like > the way you've put the stones at Castlerigg up against the lumpy > hills in the distance > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/English-Lakeland/Castlerigg2>, the > mood and sense of depth in Misty Valley > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/English-Lakeland/Mist> and the subtle > color in Derwentwater > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/English-Lakeland/DerwentW2>. Nice > stuff. > > Looks like you were there at an interesting time of the year. I had > to make do with early-Summer (rain, rain, more rain, drizzle - you > get the idea). Beautiful place no matter what the weather though. > > Dick > Boston MA > >