Spotlight on Blake Rigg - a photo on Flickriver

Another trip up to Lakeland, and unusually not a solo trip this time as I was meeting up with Mike (Muddyboots) - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk, and Brad Eide - www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08 over from America, the weather forecast for the few days was best described as 'dire'....

I'd arrived the afternoon before and headed over to the Langdales on my own and the weather certainly lived up to expectation, within minutes of being up high the calamity that seems to follow me around came into play yet again as my camera blew over on the tripod while I wasn't looking, somehow only sustained superficial damage to the filter holder on my 14-24 lens, then I noticed that I had forgotten my battery charger and my cable release (great work Pete!).... thankfully Mike had a car charger (cheers) and I would just be limited to maximum 30 seconds exposures which wasn't a big issue.

This shot was on the second day of the trip, the light had been really flat and dark skies with rain showers were the order of the day as we were driving along we decided to do a quick stop looking down the valley here towards Side Pike and Pavey ark at the rear as there was tiny bits of light breaking through but nothing special, one of us remarked that we just needed Blake Rigg lighting up and literally within a minute bing! it happened! talk about right place right time!! perfectly bathed in golden light out of absolutely nothing, if we had got nothing else all day I would be happy after bagging this one, as soon as it had appeared it went again and the scene was left looking flat and dull.

We talked about the weather and I always think on days like this in the Lakes or Scotland it's always worth just driving about keeping an eye out for breaks in the weather as sooner or later you will hopefully drop onto something, as was the case here.

A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbghJ2rFhD8&feature=em-upload...

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Oxen Fell (show map)

Taken on: April 26, 2018

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