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This one's been languishing in my Lightroom catalogue since the end of last winter. I've used it to test drive LR4 beta. The latter is promising.

Since the tilt-shift lens arrived, I've had a frustrating wait to get the time to use it. I set off for Scalebar Force today because I figured I'd be sheltered from forecast strong winds and heavy rain/hail. Turned out that location was a perfect wind funnel so I gave up after all my microfibre cloths and a camping towel were spent. On the way home (I had to be back in Sedbergh to collect our three-year-old on time), conditions improved so I was able to deploy S+T to capture this one. I am looking forward to the novelty of the new lens wearing off so I can choose to use it when it'll be the best tool for the job. Having said that, the fact that I could level the camera and shift the lens to get low enough (without having to lie on damp and worse ground) and then tilt the lens for plenty of DOF at a middling aperture all seemed to me to be how my camera should have always worked ...

During a frustrating time of not being able to get outside much in the past couple of weeks, I've been going through Lightroom and finding a few images I'd previously passed over that may be worth a second look. Here's one from Lodore Falls that I made as a demo on a one-day workshop I was leading.

The view from Seat Knott on the western edge of the Howgill Fells overlooking the Lune Valley and the hamlet of Howgill. You may want to read my blog post about why my images like this may or may not improve in future.

Look closely at the right-hand side of the image and you'll see what my guests didn't expect to see when we arrived at Castlerigg Stone Circle well before dawn last Thursday. This chap (priest? magician? other suggestions?) sauntered out of the gloaming determinedly ignoring six perhaps too respectful photographers—as well as my polite "good mornings". He selected a stone facing the impending sunrise and sat, motionless, until after we had left the scene in search of fried food.