High Water

Ullswater 4, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Ullswater.
Not quite within the Morecambe Bay area, but if the water in the lake rises much more it may well join up with Windermere and form a new sea loch with its entrance near Grange. In some ways an appealing idea, but with Arnside Knott a small isolated island and the nearest harbour halfway up Ingleborough, one that is likely to be more popular with boatbuilders than landowners.
I don't know if climate change is responsible for the water level in the lake, but I am old and cynical enough to think that giving up my Land Rover for a Toyota Prius isn't going to do much to resolve the issue of global warming. Is it an unavoidable historical cycle or did my participation in an irresponsible societal attitude towards emissions bring it about?
In any event, is it as pressing as the problems of Aids, the easy availability of weapons, creating sustainable economic growth, and providing a clean water supply.

In Basingstoke as well as Burundi.

The photo above, shot on an environmentally friendly Fuji S2 pro, using a recycled memory card, was three RAW images, processed in Photomatix. The three reflections under the silver birch were more than the software could reasonably be expected to resolve into one, but it would have helped if the (rechargeable) batteries in my camera hadn't chosen to fail just as the sun came out on an otherwise dull day.

I had a spare set, but by the time they were in place, the moment, as they say in Kyoto, had passed.