Different Day, Very Different Weather

Two days could hardly be more different. Today, dark, Misty, damp, even foggy at times. Visibility varying, but mostly next to nothing. My last blog, only two days ago, there was bright blue sky and sunshine, fabulous colour and visibility. Both days have their photographic challenges and I hope I have managed to make some decent images today, even though the light was limited and graininess seemed to be just hanging in the air.

We walked along the valley to Low Yewdale and then up through the woods, into the mist.

Not just misty, but quite damp too. 

We could hear some large skeins of geese flying around in the mists above us. We got a glimpse of one of them which must have been well over a hundred strong. The geese were heading north, I think that might be a little premature.

We reached Tarn Hows but decided against a walk around the tarn as the lack of visibility meant we wouldn't see any of the wonderful views. So we headed down through the woods of Monk Coniston. Many of the trees, both living and dead, have fungi on them. There seems to be an amazing variety in the woods around here.

This is one of my favourite images of the day. There are various constructions in the woods around Monk Coniston that were for the breeding of trout. The hatcheries as they are known were for stocking Tarn Hows and Glen Mary Tarn for James Marshall (of Monk Coniston Hall)  and his guests. However, this small waterway is a bit more substantial than the hatcheries with quite a large dam and I think it must have been the water supply for Monk Coniston. The water is very silted up and appears to be very full with a collection of leaves that go back many many years.

This is a view of the same stretch of water from the other end. It shows the top of the dam and the hand rail that serves the footpath running along the top of it.

As we descended towards the lake we came down through the mist. The clouds were moving around above the lake giving some interesting and changeable light conditions.

A very dull and gloomy kind of day, but the challenge to make a decent landscape image was enjoyable. I hope viewing them is too.