Autumn

I’m trying hard to make the effort to blog more regularly and also share some images that have been confined to the odd outing on social media, so I thought I’d write about autumn. It’s my favourite time of year, from the long segue of summer where you get that perfect mix of warm days and cool nights, to the abrupt turn when suddenly you can see your breath and find you need your Big Coat.

Around this time last year we did one of my favourite walks, Low Force up to High Force in Teesdale and I took my camera with me. I never get tired of it, the walk takes you right alongside the river almost the entire way, and it really is gorgeous. Anyway, on this particular day, it was the mix of all the perfect autumn clichés, the leaves were a variety of amazing colours and there was an atmospheric mist hanging in the air. Plus not another soul around, which is always nice.

It’s funny though, get above all that and it’s an entirely different experience.

Out of the mist and with some height, you’re left with clear blue skies and layers of really interesting cloud that you’re looking down on.

I’m yet to actually take any photographs this autumn, work, niggling health stuff and general apathy have colluded to stop me producing anything visual. Though I’m determined not to let the season pass without cataloguing something, so let’s see what the rest of this month brings.