#Cumbria
No portfolio of #LakeDistrict walks is complete without the Langdale Pikes walk. The distinctive shape of their summits is visible from all over the area in their setting above the gorgeous Langdale Valley. A great walk. For route details see tinyurl.com/yscfdxwx




Stoney Beach
Be on and off a bit this week, looking are Kar due to Covid.
#concrete #landscape #coast #waterways #beach #shoreline #waves #cumbria #LakeDistrict #sea #water #sand #pebbles #shells #seaweed #fujifilm #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome


ICYMI: As #RishiSunak rows back from the UK's #NetZero commitments, while pretending he's not... and Barrow (#Cumbria) celebrates new investments in #submarine production by the Govt. (via BAE systems), I ponder for @NWBylines whether the #Tories 'Military Keynesianism' is the best bet for the UK, or whether really we should be investing much more in the #GreenTransiton.
#Defence
#ClimateCrisis
#Greennewdeal
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/local-business/is-military-keynesianism-good-for-britain/
A photograph of a deforested landscape in #Cumbria #england national bleb park.
The blebs either don't know or don't care (or both) that forests provide home to a myriad of species, regulate water & sequester carbon.
This isn't the first time someone has written the facts to an uncaring bleb audience. Maybe if l were talking about developing a hotel for the blebs they'd be interested 🤔🤑
Lack of #wildlife #SoilErosion #floods #ClimateChange #EatTheBlebs, not farm animals #satire

A photograph of a deforested landscape in #Cumbria #england national bleb park.
The blebs either don't know or don't care (or both) that forests provide home to a myriad of species, regulate water & sequester carbon.
This isn't the first time someone has written the facts to an uncaring bleb audience. Maybe if l were talking about developing a hotel for the blebs they'd be interested 🤔🤑
Lack of #wildlife #SoilErosion #floods #ClimateChange #EatTheBlebs, not farm animals #satire

As #RishiSunak rows back from the UK's #NetZero commitments, while pretending he's not... and Barrow (#Cumbria) celebrates new investments in #submarine production by the Govt. (via BAE systems), I ponder for @NWBylines whether the #Tories 'Military Keynesianism' is the best bet for the UK, or whether really we should be investing much more in the #GreenTransiton.
#Defence
#ClimateCrisis
#Greennewdeal
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/local-business/is-military-keynesianism-good-for-britain/
Absolutly stunning view from the golf club over the bay yesterday.


It has been far too long since I travelled this road.

Cumbria: Missing poster plea reunites boy with Lego man
Sun and Railing
Been rather unwell last 24 hours so probably not on SM much this week. Have a great week all.
#naturephotography #sun #greenspaces #autumn #lake #nature #lakeside #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #forestry #forest #metalwork #railings #roots #blueskies #sunshine #sunrise #morning #fujifilm #viltrox



Dew Laden Morning
(Or how to get wet knees for a shot 😁 )
#naturephotography #sun #greenspaces #autumn #autumnvibes #farmland #nature #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #blueskies #sunshine #sunrise #morning #fujifilm #viltrox #clouds #silhouette #mountains #grass #dew




A (naturally long-exposure) photo taken on a 3D printed pinhole camera. Ilford stock.
The jetty runs into Ullswater in the UK's Lake District, behind the Inn on The Lake hotel.
#cumbria #lakedistrict #pinhole #blackandwhite #filmphotography

I've been working on a route based on our cycle club's various weekly gravel ride routes and having ridden, tweaked, and re-ridden over the past 6 months or so now have a final route which I'm calling 'Mint Gravel'. It's a 160km loop around South Lakeland, Cumbria with ~4000m of ascent and is approximately 50% off-road.
Details and GPX here: https://www.mintgravel.co.uk
Boosts, shares and #FKT attempts welcomed!

Feather
Just a lost feather covered in dew, just seemed to suit a melancholy feel.
#birds #feather #landscapephotography #woodland #trees #grass #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #naturephotography #nature #sunlight #greenspaces #cumbria #cumbriaphotography #lakedistrict #farmland

Colours of Morning
Playing with filters, just for the fun of it.
#naturephotography #sun #greenspaces #summer #lake #nature #lakeside #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #forestry #forest #stone #roots #blueskies #sunshine #sunrise #morning #fujifilm #viltrox

Methods - 50,226 women without prior lung cancer...women reported frequency of use of wood-burning stoves &/or fireplaces
Conclusions - Higher rates of #Cancer (compared to women that didn't burn wood) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108128
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When l first moved to #Cumbria, #UK (village l now live in) l used to print & post the #science papers on the village notice board & try to inform local folk about the #health hazards of burning wood in their homes.
But, they defend their wood-burning doggedly
A Sign of the Times
#Green #Monday #MossMonday #Mosstodon #Moss #MacroMonday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

Barrow. It's a shipbuilding town that's nearly part of the lovely Lake District. So, in our area, we've got big tourism, smallish industry that's really big in special things, and normal economic stuff. Old towns, especially Barrow, are rundown and poor.
Here's the news. Govt is trying to level up, without spending extra money. Just magic. 1/2
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #PoliticsUK #deprivation
A northern English town looks to BAE Systems to help it ‘level up’ - https://on.ft.com/3ZaA8Vc via @FT
Waterfall posing and lake swimming in Grasmere Lake 🏊
#Grasmere #GrasmereLake #LakeDistrict #Cumbria


Morning Sun
When it's too hot to sleep, grab a drone, a camera and greet the sunrise 😁
#naturephotography #sun #greenspaces #summer #lake #nature #lakeside #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #forestry #forest #stone #roots #blueskies #sunshine #sunrise #morning #fujifilm #viltrox




Shaun the Sheep On the Rocks
#Saturday #Sheepturday #SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Sheepodon #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

Lovely day on and around Lake Windermere, in Saskia and Kenny's adopted home ❤️ ⛴️ 🚂
#LakeWindermere #LakeDistrict #Cumbria




Very hazy sun this aft. Is this because of the #SaharaDustUK in the atmosphere? @BBCRadio4 #Cumbria
Steps to the Mine
Path heading to the Candlestick Chimney at Whitehaven, one of the few bits of Wellington Pit left.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8660000/8660068.stm
#lakedistrict #cumbria #fuji #fujifilm #viltrox #landscapephotography #coast #photography #rust #harbour #urbanphotography #history #miningindustry #wellingtonpit #miningpit #monument #clouds #whitehaven #lighthouse #wall


It's the end of the summer holidays.
Just as a heatwave arrives!
So we got up nice and early to hike to Colwith Force, snapping some gorgeous woodland and waterfall scenery. Added extra, swirling mist and fog burning away from the mountain tops.
Plenty more photos from this day are waiting for you right here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/9/6/colwith-force-lake-district-autumn 👍
#landscape #photography #photo #photographie #nature #travel #autumn #fall #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england
I think this could be the first ever #Ewesday photo on #Mastodon
#Tuesday #Ewesday #SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Sheepodon #Photo #Photography #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Along The Riverbank
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/along-the-riverbank-justin-farrimond.html
A blue sky sunny day along the riverbank at Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria.
#PhotoOfTheDay #River #PhotographyLovers #Appleby #Cumbria #BlueSky #MondayMarzipan #Tranquility

And to complete my triple posting....
I think this might be Evernia prunastri, commonly known as oakmoss, a species of lichen.
#Lichen #LichenSubscribe #MacroMonday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

When walls come tumbling down...
#Monday #MossMonday #Mosstodon #Moss #MacroMonday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

Mixing it up for Monday, a foliose Pelt Lichen growing in amongst Moss.
#Monday #MacroMonday #Moss #Lichen #MossMonday #LichenSubscribe #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

Wake Up, It's A Beautiful Morning
Same view, 23 minutes apart.
Woke up before the sun had climbed over the mountain and started to burn off the overnight mists.
#Windermere #Morning #Sunrise #Mistodon #Photo #Photography #LakeDistrict #Cumbria


Miss Cumbria III
#Saturday #Sailing #Windermere #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Photo #Photography
Bleak Sheep
Don't think they were impressed about being photographed 😆
#sunlight #greenspaces #summer #undergrowth #nature #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #forestry #forest #stone #roots #blueskies #clouds #sheep #moor #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome
I suppose you think that was funny?
#Birds #BirdWatching #Twitching #Nature #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Photo #Photography #BirdPhotography #Cumbria #Gull
Early One Morning Just as the Day Was Dawning
#Tuesday #TreeTuesday #Treesday #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria
It's Swan for the Monet
#Sunday #SilentSunday #Photo #Photography #Swan #SwanSunday #Monet #Cumbria
A Ewe with a View
#Saturday #Sheepturday #SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Sheepodon #Photo #Photography #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
It was only a small break in the rain but what stunning conditions to be on a hillside in the Lake District!
#phototgraphy #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #LakeDistrict #lakedistrictphotography #mountains #Cumbria #weather #hiking #Olympus #OM1 #OMSystem
Valley Living 2
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/valley-living-2-justin-farrimond.html
I dedicate this Buttermere view to my good friend Kim. We all need a bit of blue sky in our lives.
#PicOfTheDay #LandscapePhotography #PhotographyLovers #Cumbria #Buttermere #LakeDistrict #Valley
Seeing these in my photo library has just reminded me I missed Ambleside Sports this year. #cycling #running #wrestling #cumbria
I'm just waiting for #TheMet to admit to something now....
#Cumbria #Police
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/cumbria-police-admits-huge-breach-of-data-of-officers-and-staff
LONG POST ON #ELNINO / #FLOODING
As we hear of the effects of the #ClimateEmergency round the world, and see #flooding in #Norway I am reminded of #StormDesmond that hit #Cumbria between 5th & 6th Dec 2015. In 48 hours #Thirlmere in #LakeDistrict recorded 405mm of rainfall in combination with severe gales up to 81mph. This was an El Nino year.
It was the 4th major storm of the autumn. The ground and the lakes were already saturated.
Forest Foxgloves
Foxgloves are everywhere around here, this was in depth of a local forest.
#woodland #trees #flowers #petals #naturephotography #sunlight #greenspaces #undergrowth #nature #moorland #cumbria #lakedistrict #grassland #summer #foxgloves #raindrops
Crummock Waters
Well the Air2S is out of action for a bit but the Mavic 2 Pro is still going strong 😁
#valley #mountains #farmland #greenspaces #aerialvideography #dronevideography #aerialphotography #dronephotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #bluesky #panorama #panoramicviews #djiglobal #lake
Ennerdale Valley
Shot from our drone work, more and video up later @cumbriaskyscape
#valley #mountains #farmland #greenspaces #aerialvideography #dronevideography #aerialphotography #dronephotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #bluesky #djiglobal
Captured Stones
Pebbles lodged into the old wood structure by the tides.
#architecture #urbanphotography #buildings #landscapephotography #cumbria #woodwork #wooden #dock #boats #harbour #coast #wood #sea #shoreline #pebbles #seaweed
Watching the shadows chase across the landscape
Buttermere lake side, some shots over the lake on a cloudy morning.
#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #lakeside #landscapephotography #naturephotography #clouds #lake #trees #silhouette #reflection #shoreline #cumbria #lakedistrict #water #abstract #sunlight
Ooh - just remembered I have a little something for @ceadela and @LakesStiles #Whinlatter #Cumbria
Happy Summer Solstice, Hippies!
I'm not doing anything with it this year, so sharing this again: https://cycling.hypertelia.com/Summer-Solstice-Stone-Circles-Ride #cycling #cumbria
Lake District tour boat firm accused of ‘censoring’ Windermere links to slavery https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/16/lake-district-tour-boat-firm-accused-by-boatmaster-of-censoring-windermere-links-to-slavery #cumbria
#LakeDistrict mountainHigh Street’s main claim to fame is that it is so named because a Roman road between Ambleside and Brougham (near Penrith) ran over it. It makes for a great walk with super views. Details at tinyurl.com/2u2ckhmv
Tarn Hows is always a good bet for a lovely summer evening's walk.
It's all looking a bit dry now though.
More photos are ready for you here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/6/8/tarn-hows-lake-district-summer 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #summer #photo #photographie #photography #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england