A lovely summers afternoon in Wasdale

After wakening to a 3am alarm only to look outside and be greeted with lashing down rain and strong winds, it did not take much perswasing to quickly return to the comforts of my bed.

Later that morning after doing the home chores and getting the weekly shopping, we discussed the prospect of getting outside for some exercise and photography.

The weather had improved greatly, with bright sunshine, and a light breeze which was raising temperatures nicely, we decided to take a run out to Wast Water and Wasdale for our daily exercise, adhering to the social distancing at all times.

We set off for Wast Water in the hope that we might get some sun there, (its not often we are blessed with these conditions in Wasedale), I packed the camera gear and off we set.

We arrived in Wasdale in lovely summer conditions, the wind swiftly blowing the clouds across the sky, which were producing sun beams and strong shadows across the vista in front of us.

We parked up and began walking along the lakes side, it was not long before we found some lovely foxglove flowers, which I hoped could be included in a photograph looking towards Yewbarrow and Great Gable as foreground interest. One shot in the bag.

The light and shadows streaking across the fells in front of us was quite stunning, so I took a couple of images including Yewbarrow and Great Gable, some long exposures, some not, these would be reviewed once I got home and looked at them on the computer to decide which was the best.

After about 50 minutes or so we walked back to the car and began the drive up towards Wasdale Head, we ended up not stopping along the way, and were surprised at the number of vehicles parked at Wasdale Head.

After being in Wasdale for about 90 minutes, we decided to return home, calling in at Seascale in the hope of maybe capturing a shot of the small jetting in a the high tide, but upon arriving the tide was on its way out, not to worry there is always another opportunity to be had.

The photograph below is the one of the Foxglove fowers being used as foreground interest.