It's been dull and breezy here all weekend with very flat light. I went to the Howgills for a walk on Sunday and struggled to get anything interesting. Wainwright likens the fells to a herd of sleeping elephants... (These are with Lumix LX100mk2)
Afterwards I went to the other side of the Tebay - Kirkby Stephen road for a look around and the light was more interesting. I've just got a 70-200 lens for my EOS5, so I had to use it!
What to do if you're a bumblebee and you're collecting pollen but don't have pockets. Stick the pollen on you hind legs. (The article is about honey bees, but same idea.)
I probably should have used a smaller aperture to get more than a millimetre of depth of field, but the dreamy look kinda works with the subject.
Oerddwr Uchaf - one time home of the poet "William Oerddwr" - and in the distance a nicely framed Cnicht. The stacked piles of slates on the ground are early, rough, oak pegged slates, from a previous re-roofing I suppose.
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