The Langdale Fells...

There aren't many quiet times in the Lake District, but January is one. There's hardly anyone around, and the weather hasn't helped: soggy, dark and gloomy. But the roads are clear, you don't have to fight your way to the bar - if you can find a pub that's open - and maybe the sun will come out for long enough to take a few pix...

Keswick...

Keswick at dusk, just before the Christmas lights were due to come down...

Derwentwater and Blencathra...

Plenty of gloomy days, unsurprisingly, at the turn of the year, though I enjoyed a walk around Derwentwater...

Gawthorpe Hall...

Gawthorpe Hall still has a kind of grandeur, even though it's now hemmed in by the suburbs of Padiham, near Burnley. The sun lit the facade, but didn't melt the frost...

The view from Buckstones...

Bought a new lens on eBay: Sigma 20mm f1.8, which is the widest lens I've ever owned. Good for landscapes, of course, and interiors, and anywhere else where I'm cramped for room. This is the first shot with the new lens: Pennine scenery viewed from the car park at Buckstones...

Back to Hull...

My first visit to Hull, many years ago, was with my first girlfriend. We were refused a drink in a 'men only' quayside pub... and I wasn't in a hurry to go back.

But I had a wander recently around the town. It's changed, unsurprisingly, and this marina is full of recreational boats...

March Hare...

This ‘pilgrim rabbit’ was carved 700 years ago in St Mary’s Church, Beverley, East Yorkshire. When Lewis Carroll was writing Alice in Wonderland, he had to tell the book’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, how he wanted the March Hare to look. He pointed him towards this carving…