Goths on the Lake?

A mid-November trip to Keswick and one of its two lakes – Derwent Water. The last few days of the visit of our artist friend from Oz, before she leaves for a final rendezvous in Manchester and then the long journey back home to Melbourne.

A week with us then she had two days with a fellow artist and his engineer wife… who happen to be very fond of Gothic clothes and decidedly edgy festivals in Whitby…

Whitby… mmm. Wasn’t that where Count Dracula came ashore in Bram Stoker’s infamous novel?

Derwent Water, a ten minutes’ walk from the centre of Keswick, is usually a safe place to garner a set of shots for a blog… In the summer, it looks like this:

But, today, it didn’t look anything like that… It looked gloomy, lightless and awful. In fairness, it was half an hour before the darkness took over… and that thought gave me an idea…

We four could adopt a decidedly Goth mentality and see if the lake would lend itself to a Gothic photography session. I’ve never been a Goth, but two of our friends had… and loved the idea.

We set about taking shots of the dark lake; shots that would lend themselves to a certain style of post-processing.

Over an atrocious cup of coffee at a reluctantly-still-open cafe, we processed a chosen subset to get these…

Our mood lifted (or should that be darkened?) as the results emerged

Upon reflection, even the clouds had conspired to help us…

I’m pretty sure that’s what happened. Otherwise, I dreamt it… and woke up to the photos…

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