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As part of my best of 2025 I posted an image of Colle Santa Lucia and thought that you might like to see the usual view plus more of the context of the first one. Ken I was several miles away at 7,500ft on a hill above the pass with a lot of the Dolomites spread before me Colle Santa Lucia is...

1. Unexpected snow on 5th January and I went out for a walk with camera. This is about 2 miles from home and I like the simplicity and the 2 couples split into men ahead with dog and the 2 women deep in conversation bringing up the rear. 2. River Brathay, Lake District 22nd Jan. The forecast...

A random collection of images from the last few weeks. Ken Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland 18 October Glen Affric Highland Scotland 13 October Glen Affric Highland Scotland 13 October Borrowdale English Lake District 25 October Borrowdale English Lake District 25 October

Grasmere is a small lake in the Lake District. Famous for a poet( William Wordswoth) and gingerbread. This looks like a nice place to live, but last year the average selling price of a house here was just over £1.25M ($1.5M) so just a little out of my price bracket. Ken

From last week in the North of Scotland. Driving across the country from East to West ( it is not much more than 50 miles at this point) I came across this scene at one of the many small Lochs. I stood around for about 10 minutes hoping that the distant cloud might shift and reveal the hidden...

I have not been posting much recently, life getting in the way of photography but we have been getting out and about. This was a short trip at the end of June Dunskey Castle is on the coast of South West Scotland about 100 miles away from where we live. We have visited before but I wanted to...

There have been castles here for at least 1,000 years, this one was built in the 14thC and has been at the centre of a lot of Scottish history. Its present state of disrepair however is not directly down to warfare but as a result of the owner the 10th Earl Marishchal picking the wrong side in...

This is a continuation of the 4 images in 15 minutes post and were taken a 10 minute hike away. It is really the same composition shot low to put the tree in the sky with a minimum of foreground, a different tree as subject and lots of sky. All taken with the same 16-35 lens. It was very windy...

A very brief visit to North Yorkshire on Saturday. The forecast was for heavy rain and thunderstorms later in the day but I hoped to get some time in before it hit. I know this area well but usually visit in the winter. This is an area of limestone pavements and trees growing under the influence...

I don't normally enter photography competitions but this year I decided to enter the Edinburgh competition. No prizes, just the kudos of getting your prints exhibited as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Unfortunately my PDI's are a poor representation of my prints. Ken

Tuesday's trip out to photograph Puffins led me close to Alnwick ( The l and w are silent and the stress is on the A [Anick] ). Probably more famous as a film set for the Harry Potter films it is a stunning castle (11thC) and the 2nd largest inhabited castle in England. Ken

We had a few days staying with our elder daughter in Manchester. On this day we visited the Lowry Art Gallery in Salford (Manchester). Lowry is famous in Britain but probably largely unknown outside of it although his work sells for huge sums. He painted the industrial North West of England when...

This castle was built at the same time as Brough castle but the odd pronunciation in Cumbria gives us Brough pronounced Bruff and Brougham pronounced Broo am with the a being very short with the stress on the oo. The river is usually much higher and faster than this but as it flows out of a...

We have had blue skies and no rain from the 6th April to the 23rd May so a little rain and some clouds was a good excuse to get out and about with my camera. There has been a fort on this site for almost 2,000 years. Firstly the Romans, housing up to 500 men, and then the English after they...

A few images from Sunday's short (15 miles) bike ride around the small roads in North Cumbria. The light towards the end was stunning. Thankfully I had a real camera even if it was only my old Fuji XE1. Ken

3 images from January 2014 on a trip to buy a bike frame. I was carrying my camera just in case and this time the light kicked off so a detour then a stiff hike up on to the limestone pavements to get a foreground for the dramatic light. Fuji XE-1 Fuji 14mm prime. Heavy rain throughout...

The temperature today got up to 40F with some "warm" sunshine. Tonight it will be down below freezing again. Ken

Corfe Castle built in the 10thC and detroyed in the English Civil war mid 17thC sits a few miles from the English South coast. Images from 2012 when we were visiting our elder daughter who was at University nearby. Processed in 2012 and produces a nice 16 by 12 print from the Olympus E410 10Mp...

This is Wray Castle built in 1846 as a holiday home for an incredibly rich couple. The weather wasn't doing photography any favours. Ken The castle from Windermere the largest "Lake" in the English Lake District We went for a cruise on Windermere and passed this upmarket Hotel $700 for a...