Cotswolds View

UPDATE - apologies to those of you who viewed my original blip. Having slept on it I had to replace my really nice backlit tree (which could have been anywhere) with this view from Painswick Beacon. Sorry Danielle and Mrs K - the tree was their favourite.

Today was a training day. What for you ask. Well, I'm excited as I've booked my place at LPH, that's Lakeland Photographic Holidays, where John and Gail Gravett pay host to a brilliant week of excursions around the stunningly beautiful Lake District, expert tuition and wonderful home-made cooking from their home in Braithwaite near Keswick, Cumbria. I first went in March 2013 and have just earned enough brownie points for a return trip. I'm such a lucky boy.

Anyway, training consisted of a ramble around the Cotswolds, a circular walk from Cranham up to Painswick Beacon and back round via Paradise (no really, that's it's name) and Tocknell's Court. It was advertised as 5 and-a quarter miles. However, I got lost twice, once because the instructions could have been clearer and the other when I missed a stile, duh. I must have done 6 miles in all. It was very muddy in places too but the views from the Beacon are fantastic, highly recommended if you're in the area. I'm thoroughly cream-crackered, more training required.

Having processed my shortlist of pics I gave Danielle and Mrs K the opportunity to pick their favourite and it just so happens that they picked the same one. While I originally posted it, I just had to swap it for this one. How could I capture such views of the Cotswolds and not share them? The unnaturally shaped landscape in the foreground is the remnants of an Iron Age fortification.