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I've always had a passion for the outdoors, and the grand landscapes which nature can carve. They really help put life into perspective, and make you realise that you're a piece in the grand puzzle that is life. Your daily stresses and worries just fall away as you ascend the slopes towards the top.


Yosemite Valley
Capturing the adventure through photography allows me to share the experience with others, and so I've started this website in order to share my adventures with you!
I've done a few bits of travelling, not as much as I would have liked, admittedly, and most of my photos from those trips we're mainly 'holiday snaps'.
My last big trip as in summer 2015 to California, where I visited Yosemite National Park (photo right). It took my breath away, and it hit me that I needed to up my photography game to the next level to really try and capture & convey what I was seeing. I'm aiming to return in a few years once I've improved my photography skills.
Back home, I started looking for locations which would give me the same 'buzz' as my visit to Yosemite.
I'm quite lucky in that I have three National Parks all within a 2 hour drive from my home - The Peak District, The Yorkshire Dales & The Lake District.
It was the Lake District, in Cumbria, northern England that caught my attention. I had been there loads of times as a kid on day trips with my parents, doing the tourist thing visiting Windermere and, less frequently, Keswick in the northern lakes. and remember the stunning scenery of the mountains and lakes. I had never climbed any of the Cumbrian Mountains before, but on sunny September weekend, after seeing a segment on a TV programme, I decided to head to the hills and conquer one of the Fells surrounding Derwent Water - Catbells.

The path to Catbells
At 1,480 feet high, it's not the highest of the Fells - nowhere near - but it gives some stunning views! Armed with my camera, water & a packed lunch, I parked my car nearby and made for the top.
Since that day, I've visited the Lake District numerous times, after discovering that a chap called Alfred Wainwright wrote his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells back in the 1960's, detailing the routes to top of all 214 Fells.
To date, I've 'bagged' 48 of them, and have also done a spot of wild camping overnight on the Fells as well.
I've still got a long way to go, so I'll be regularly blogging about the rest of my adventures, and expanding my landscape photography portfolio, and who knows where it'll lead....
Mark

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