Derwent Water, North Lakes, Cumbria
Derwent Water

Derwent Water, North Lakes, Cumbria
Derwent Water

Late Spring Bank Holiday Week in the Lake District, England’s first holiday weekend since the third lockdown. Traditional landscape photography avoids people but I’ve deliberately featured holidaymakers in this set. After many long weeks of lockdown and deserted streets: it’s been heartening to see people enjoying themselves with a responsible degree of bustle and busyness. And there are precedents on including people in “landscapes”: you need look no further than John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” (1821), one of the most popular paintings in London’s National Gallery.

Latrigg, North Lakes, Cumbria
Latrigg path

Keswick, North Lakes, Cumbria
Keswick

Castlerigg Woods, North Lakes, Cumbria
Castlerigg Woods

Derwent Falls, Stonethwaite, North Lakes, Cumbria
Derwent Falls, Stonethwaite

Blackmoss Pot, Langstrath, North Lakes, Cumbria
Blackmoss Pot, Langstrath

Wasdale, Western Lakes, Cumbria
Wasdale

Wast Water, Western Lakes, Cumbria
Wast Water

Sinen Gill, North Lakes, Cumbria
Sinen Gill

Cumbria Way, North Lakes, Cumbria
Cumbria Way

Lonscale Fell, North Lakes, Cumbria
Lonscale Fell

Supermarket queue, Keswick, North Lakes, Cumbria
Socially-distanced supermarket queue, Keswick