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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:55 pm:   

Sorry guys - got a bit screwed up with the info so you'll have to put the comments at the end yourselves...

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:56 pm:   

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:56 pm:   

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:58 pm:   

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:59 pm:   

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 04:59 pm:   

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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 06:21 pm:   

I love the lake district

I got lots of pictures of it on www.efilsgod.piczo.com

Some of Kilimanjaro as well.

But that's not in the lake district.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 06:22 pm:   

nice pics btw. love the long shot of yer woman on the end of the jetty
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:31 pm:   

Thanks, Mick! That's great, ta very much.

And yes, some lovely pictures on your link, Weber. Any of those hardy souls walking the tops you?
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:33 pm:   

SHOT ONE:

The working farm we stayed at. We rented a caravan for a few days. Because it was a working farm, the early mornigns were assured! Sam the dog (you can see him by the Land Rover) started his morning barking session at 5-30am, when the cows were herded in for milking . . . Also, the place had a lovely freshly laid manure smell to it. As both Michelle and I were raised in semi-rural . . . well, maybe not splendour, but you get the idea . . . we could both happily say it was the smell of our childhood.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:35 pm:   

SHOT TWO.

New Hutton, viewed from the north. Technically just outside the lake District, as is the nearest town, Kendal. But quite lovely. The farm we stayed at was to the south of New Hutton. Tony stayed there a few days after we did!
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:36 pm:   

SHOT THREE.

Me. In the caravan. Reading DROOD by Dan Simmons.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:37 pm:   

SHOT FOUR.

Michelle having a go at Haruki Murakami. Which is why, of course, there's a strange man taking a photograph from out of a mirror. Sorry I couldn't get any ear or cat references into the picture.*

*Murakami fans know what I'm talking about. . .
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:39 pm:   

SHOT FIVE.

Michelle takes a break from being baffled by Haruki Murakami to enjoy a travel book by Edith Wharton. Top of my car, an over-a-decade-old Peugeot 306 diesel estate, in the background, and then the farm again.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:42 pm:   

SHOT SIX.

Michelle on the end of a jetty at Ambleside, a large village/small town at the north of Windemere. The shot was taken early morning (courtesy of Sam T Dog's wake-up bark), when the water and sky were a hazy silk reflection of each other. Quite beautiful tranquility about that special time. Within a half hour of taking that shot the water had hardened and the sky been turned by clouds.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:42 pm:   

SHOT SEVEN.

And closer of the above, taken a moment later.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:44 pm:   

SHOT EIGHT.

Driving up the middle(ish) of the lake district, from Windemere to the unfeasibly pretty town of Keswick and Derwent Water. Broody skies snagging on the mountains and fells as we went.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:46 pm:   

SHOT NINE.

I had to include this one, because the street name sounds like it belongs in Harry Potter. It's off the main pedestrain highway in Kewsick. Michelle looking slightly frazzled by the day and all the damp in the air!
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:46 pm:   

SHOT TEN.

Rear view from a launch onto Derwent Water . . .
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:48 pm:   

SHOT ELEVEN.

Which idiot went on deck? Just because it'd stopped raiining, didn't mean the bow waves wouldn't kick up and spray the deck. When I came back into the cabin Michelle wondered if I'd fallen in the lake!
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:49 pm:   

SHOT TWELVE.

Looks like a scene in southern China or Thailand maybe. But no, it's England, the Lake District. View across Derwent Water, vaguely toward the fell of Catbells.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:51 pm:   

SHOT THIRTEEN.

This is from Bowness, looking north up Windemere. not in shot, but a hell of a lot of Japanese visitors there (not in shot), attracted by the stunning views of course, but also largely the Beatrix Potter Experience . . .
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:54 pm:   

SHOT FOURTEEN.

Me in a pub overlooking Windemere. The Lake View. Do a nice carvery for only £3-50 a head. Certainly the best value anything we got in the Lake District (well, apart form a £3 pristine edition copy of Ray Bradbury's 100 Stories in a charity store: scope, I think it was). I look serious for some reason . . . Don't know why. Was enjoying myself.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:55 pm:   

SHOT FIFTEEN.

We got stuck for a while in the Duddon Valley. My old car overheated trying the high mountain passes, so we'd to let it cool off and then try find a route out without going over any steep hills. You'll appreciate that was pretty tricky, and involved nearly an hour of slow crawling . . . But a beautiful place. Desolate magnificance.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:57 pm:   

SHOT SIXTEEN.

Looks almost Alpen, but is in fact a scene on the way into the Eskdale valley, which we got to somewhat circuitously after the car problem. Eskdale valley is the other side of a very high pass the car couldn't manage, and required a big change of route to get there.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:59 pm:   

SHOT SEVENTEEN.

The packhorse bridge in the village (or perhaps hamlet) of Boot, deep in the Eskdale valley. Quite lovely place. The crack of rock on rock, shale and scree shifting, made a strange but appropriate background noise to the searing fells rearing almost vertically above us. Another world . . .
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 11:00 pm:   

And there we have it. Some scenes from a brief visit (mostly a reasearch trip to shore up some facts about stuff I've been writing about). And mostly very enjoyable it was too.

Thanks again fro putting the pics up, Mick.

Now, where's the Rome pictures of you and D?!
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 10:40 am:   

"And yes, some lovely pictures on your link, Weber. Any of those hardy souls walking the tops you?"

On Kili - yes (but 10 years ago now, bloody hell time flies). In the Lakes - no
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 06:32 pm:   

Nice pictures anyway, Weber. We didn't attempt any walking on the high passes, for obvious reasons. But it's a grand old place. We shall certainly try get back for more. Maybe with a better car . . .
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Adriana (Adriana)
Username: Adriana

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 05:38 pm:   

The ones of Michelle on the dock are my fav. So moody and lovely.

You guys seem like such a great match...
:-)
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 07:49 pm:   

Thanky, Ms A. Yes, I like those shots too. The water and sky seemed almost indistinguishable that day we were there. It was only like that a short time, but a treat to be there for it.

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