Danny is a legend.

Thank you, I do try to achieve a more painterly feel.

Thanks!

Me too, me too.

Cheers! This was shot just after sunrise and we were one of the first up there in October, so definitely a lot more quiet than peak season.

Thanks!

The “forest” with regards to this place is actually the older meaning of the word, a “royal hunting ground”.

There’s not been trees here for 500+ years. The Forest of Bowland is mostly peat bog and heather moorland interspersed with gritstone formations.

I wholeheartedly approve of the name.

This has got Steve McCurry vibes about it. Dig it.

Aye, well for July what seems to have happened is that wave after wave of low pressure systems have been dropping lower across the Atlantic, crashing into Britain, and pushing high pressure systems further south into southern Europe, where they’ve been experiencing record-breaking high temperatures.

Ta very much!

Well the UK has been getting increasingly warmer in the last few years, which has often been accompanied by extended periods of dry weather. The Lake District in Cumbria typically receives most of the rainfall that comes across the Atlantic to these isles, but we’ve had a lot of summers recently where it didn’t rain for months. This July, by contrast, has been very wet and cool.