Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was there (well, in the southern part of the Lakes)
for a week in late October. One glorious day (my
daughter's birthday), the rest terrible. But a few
nice shots regardless in the soft or stormy light, so
it was still fun.
Nick
--- Simon Ogilvie <simon.ogilvie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
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