Great Langdale, Lake District, Autumn
Let’s take a break from my recent run of Isle of Skye images.
Do you know what one of my favourite areas in the Lake District is? It’s Great Langdale.
We recently invited my Dad over to come stay with us, as he’s in our support bubble and lives on his own. On the Saturday I took Dad to explore Great Langdale, which he had never seen before. It’s good to know there’s still places in the Lake District I can let my Dad experience for the very first time.
It is an awe-inspiring place. Great Langdale is a fairly flat-bottomed valley that features a northern wall of some of the finest and most recognisable crags and peaks in the Lake District: the Langdale Pikes.
Judging from the amount of photos, I think Dad found it inspiring too.
All photos shot on my Fujifilm X-T2 using both my Samyang 35mm f/1.2 and Laowa 9mm f/2.8 lenses (with some additional help from Dad’s 55-200mm f/3.5–4.8). I used a customised Provia Standard film profile.
It was prime tupping season in the valley bottom of Great Langdale. Plenty of Herdwick yows (ewes) around with one or two tups (rams) doing their… duty.
We experienced some wonderful play of light streaming across the Langdale Pikes. I borrowed Dad’s 55-200mm lens to really zoom on those famous crags. Stickle Ghyll, the series of cascades and falls to the right of the photo, was in full spate.
There were plenty of puddles on the trail, which enabled to shot a composition of the Langdale Pikes I’ve been after for a long time.
More beautiful late afternoon light, picking out the contours and crags of the Langdale Pikes.
To the east of the Langdale Pikes is a wall of fells peaking at Broad Crag and Raw Pike, with a beam of light shooting across the face of the wall.
The trail closed in on Great Langdale Beck and provided me with a lovely leading line towards the glowing tips of the Langdale Pikes.
Nearer the Pikes the swollen beck was reflecting some wonderful light bouncing off the red fells above us. I closed the lens up to get this longer exposure of the flow of the river.
Here’s something I didn’t know about in Great Langdale! Near the Stickle Ghyll Barn Dad and I spotted a small stile that allowed one access over the fence towards these wonderful cascades. I whipped out my 9mm ultra-wide lens for some compositions of these cascades and Whitegill Crag above.
It’s not the Lake District without some idyllic cottages scattered about the valley.
Herdwick sheep are so bloody cute.
A final panoramic look back at the Great Langdale valley; Langdale Pikes to right, and Crinkle Crags to the left.