Lake District

I am very excited as I’ve just booked a holiday in the Lake District for next month! I’ve never been there before and I’m really looking forward to the break.

I don’t know if you know the area at all but it’s notorious for raining all the time. In a country where it rains all the time this means I am more than likely going to get wet!

Rain is OK with me. I quite like the idea of capturing a damp and liquidy landscape of mountains* and lakes, it’s all part of the experience. Who knows, we might get lucky and catch a break in the clouds, and I’m told when the sun does come out it is the most heavenly place on earth – that’s got to be worth a gamble, hasn’t it?

Here are some photos that have been inspiring me lately on flickr – if mine turn put a quarter as good as these then I will be very happy!

1. hill, 2. Buttermere – Fleetwith Pike, 3. castlerigg, 4. Bassenthwaite Lake, 5. Afternoon Tea, 6. Your cold eyes., 7. Wastwater Landscape, 8. Lake Windermere, 9. hey, I’m looking at you

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and start shopping for waterproof clothing and deciding what cameras to take…

*I know they aren’t technically mountains, just big hills, but I come from the relatively flattened out south coast – and at best our hills are ‘rolling’.