A restless night's sleep can have it's advantages! After waking up on and off during the night (I think I'd gone to bed too early), at four o'clock I decided bite the bullet to try and get a sunrise up in the Lakes. It has to be the best time of day to travel, the motorways were all quiet so I was past Manchester and on the M61 just before six.
The sunrise itself never quite materialised but I got some brilliant photos of the clouds breaking on Windermere and more importantly, I had the place to myself. I then headed up the Kirkstone Pass with the hope that maybe I could get the same cloud conditions on Ullswater.
Unfortunately there were cloudless clear blue skies but I did manage to get the last of the rising mist on Brotherswater so all was not lost. I also took some amazing shots part way up the Kirkstone Pass looking back to a cloud inversion over the head of Windermere. The valley was in cloud and all the Langdale Fells above it.
A great drive up and some truly magical photographic moments
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| Dawn on Windermere |
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| Dawn on Windermere |
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| Jetty Windermere |
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| Dawn on Windermere |
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| Langdale Pikes cloud inversion |
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| From Kirkstone Pass |
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| Langdale Pikes cloud inversion |
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| Brotherswater |
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| Brotherswater |
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| Early morning haze |
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| Brotherswater |
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| Early morning haze |
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| Early morning haze |
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| Haze on Brotherswater |
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| Brotherswater |
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| Early morning haze |
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| Brotherswater |
Wow Norm! It paid off to get up early! I love all the pics especially all the "haze" ones!
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing! I love the dawn pictures- the fog, the beautiful sky- so wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGina