Landscape & Nature Photography by Kevin Brace

There is something innately reassuring and comfortable about the Lake District, it is largely rounded with some jagged edges, it is undoubtedly pastoral lush and verdantly green as a result of the abundant rainfall. Rain that feels as though it ought to always be warm in an idyllic, English summer sort of fashion, but rarely is.

The landscape is quintessentially Northern English, not Scottish, certainly not Welsh, it epitomises the classic Dales landscapes combined with the rugged bleakness of the Pennines, gives them a good shake and a few upward tweaks and produces a landscape that is unique and probably unrivalled anywhere in the world. It formed the subject matter of the great romantics and provided the setting for Potters bucolic anthropomorphic tales and the Walker children’s spiffing adventures in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons. Yet Daniel Defoe in 1724 describes the Westmorland as “the wildest, most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England, or even Wales itself…” Dear me, worse than Wales!

And it is those contradictions that make the Lake district the place it is, whatever your style leads you to produce, whatever you seek and search for; record, paint portray or photograph you will find it here…just so long as it stops raining long enough.

We used to live within 80mins of the park, a lot longer if the 2cv broke down, which it invariably did. I regret that I did not use that proximity to greater benefit my landscape photography. My photography was lazy, a tripod was too much fuss and a good pub was more of a lure than anything that might have been brewing up within the landscape outside. However, our frequent trips taught me plenty, about the art and about the land itself, the mountains, most of which have been climbed, many, more than once. I learned to read the mood and anticipate what might come. I just wish I had taken a bit more care.

Kevin Brace

As funny as the sight of her slightly faded M&S underwear was she was in obvious danger of slipping off as she fought with her flapping fabric and the gale that was gushing up either flank of the appropriatly named Windy Gap...read more

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