A Spring holiday

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

We all need to take time off. When that time is spent in beauty and quiet it's effects are deep and profound. I was lucky enough to spend the bank holiday weekend in the this peaceful valley. The wild daffodils were just finishing, but the woods were full of birdsong. Wild garlic, wood anemones and primroses took advantage of the brief time before the canopy closes over. I saw red and roe deer, a red squirrel, peregrine falcons, swifts buzzards, ravens. Cuckoos sang in the distance.

The fields were full of tiny leaping black dots, lambs of the local Herdwick sheep, whose lives are so tough that they leave giving birth until late April, weeks after their softer cousins elsewhere in Britain,

A welcome break.

Wild garlic on the old slate track

Primroses and wild garlic

I may be nearly 15, but I can still get up here!

Herdwick lambs

The old ruined hunting lodge

Spring colours emerging



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3 comments

  1. Anonymous7 May 2013 at 08:21

    Grey Fox,

    A nice little photo essay, you've done these in the past. Would you mind in future giving the basic equipment details? I do a bit of photography myself and I'm always interested in that type of stuff.

    Regards
    David

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  2. Grey Fox7 May 2013 at 14:43

    Many thanks David. I'm not really a photographer, so hadn't thought of giving such information.

    All these images were taken on a Panasonic G2 with 14-42 lens. I use this, an iPhone or a Panasonic Lumix GF1 with a pancake 20mm (effective 40mm) f1.7 lens (I use the last for indoor shots or some street images due to the fast lens).

    GF.

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  3. Anonymous8 May 2013 at 00:33

    Grey Fox,

    Thank you. It's obviously the photographer in me that likes that infomation, which I find useful.

    David

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