Travel Theme: Wood. This week we escaped to the Lake District, staying for two nights in Ambleside. There is much to be said for visiting out of season: the roads are quiet, the shops almost empty and there is no problem getting into restaurants, always assuming they have not put up their shutters for the winter. The downside is the weather but wet weeks in the Lakes are just as likely in August as in January. Nevertheless, this was a particularly sodden few days – the sound of running water was inescapable.
On Wednesday we went for a six mile hike around Elterwater where the primary objective was to find a route that was reasonably solid underfoot. Elterwater is almost onomatopoeic or should that be mimetic. Either way, helter skelter water describes and sounds like the place and its weather perfectly.
On the OS map, Rob Rash is marked as adjacent to the village. This, it turns out, is a National Trust wood and not a skin complaint. The woodland must appear in these photographs (click on the images to enlarge):
northumbrian : light 
Lovely area and agree with the ‘Out of season’ comment. MM 🍀
It is lovely but for much of the year it is just too busy (and a little too commercialised). Give me Scotland’s north west every time (trouble is the distance from Hexham).
And from Cork 😏
Very Lovely photos. Do you use Photoshop?
Thanks for the kind comment. They started life in the camera emulating Fujifilm Velvia, they were processed with OnOne’s Perfect B&W and then adjusted some more in Photoshop CC. So yes, they have been hacked to within an inch of their lives 🙂
Beautiful indeed…So moody!!! Looks like a wonderful place…
Thank You! I am rather new to this and do not own photo editing software. Yet! I am asking around and photoshop seems to be software most ppl use. I hope it is good for beginners.
Thanks for your response. Beautiful photos!
These are so beautiful…..the haunting mist and stillness of winter beautifully captured. For some reason I’m really drawn to the middle shot, great manipulation 🙂
You’re tempting me to book a winter visit down here……I definitely found it just too busy the last couple of times I went, but out of season sounds tempting.
Thanks Seonaid. If you do, I recommend http://www.fellinisambleside.com/ – great combination of cinema and restaurant (even though I am not vegetarian).
Love these, truly haunting images. As Seonaid has said, you have captured the stillness of winter 🙂
Thanks Sue – it was one of those days when there were just so many pictures to take. Needless to say there are loads more to be mucked around with 🙂
Tell me about it!
I love the dream-like quality in this photo…
what mysteries
awaits in the mist
For how long
can we resist
walking towards
our dreams
life whispering
in forests streams
forever it seems…
And thank you for you comments on my blog! 🙂
Many thanks Hanne – perfect.
I spent about 6 weeks in the Lake district in the summer time. Beautiful place, but mobbed with the worst kind of tourist. I remember wondering how it would be in the off season. You are a hardy soul to hike in that weather! The photos are stunning, especially the second to last one. Love that vintage tint.
Thanks Julie – I am not a hardy soul by inclination 🙂 Trouble is if you visit anywhere for just a few days you are obliged to make the most of it.
Wonderful photo’s, Robin!
Many thanks, much appreciated
Beautiful, I was almost in the Lakes myself this weekend but the weather was just too bad. Possibly next week. These are lovely shots
Many thanks and a good call Jo – anything like it is here at the moment and it can only have got worse.
It has been terrible today, I don’t think the kids would have ever forgiven me if I had taken them over there ha! It has done nothing but come down in sheets all day long! Keeping my fingers crossed for next weekend!
Stunning, beautiful and I really love these ones! Nice work Robin!
Many thanks Malin and there are more trees to come 🙂
Great images and I like the way you have changed the personality of the “place” by adjusting your edits. Good stuff!
Many thanks Robyn – wasn’t sure if I should have made the last one consistent with the other two but I liked the frosty feel to it (which it wasn’t 🙂 )
The first image is gorgeous – like a painting. The Lake District tourist board should use that in their literature! It might attract too many people off-season, though, which would ruin it for those of us who crave the peace, beauty, and solitude of being is such a place outside the main season 😉
Many thanks – there is always that danger although I think the weather can always be relied on to deter the masses 🙂
amazing shot! Love it
Many thanks, much appreciated
Beautiful photos, I like them a lot.
Many thanks and thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
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I really like all of these photographs-but the top two are particularly eye-catching. The light and the color with the silhouetted landscape evoke a sense of memory and timelessness-well done!
Many thanks for your consistently generous comments, it is much appreciated. There must be a colour to memory so your reference gets to the heart of it – thanks again.
Rob Rash…funny!
Your shots have a beautiful mystery about them. All three are gorgeous.
Many thanks and so pleased someone out there picked up on my schoolboy ‘humour’ 🙂 All the best.
Really beautiful photos of this landscape.
Many thanks Bente, much appreciated.