This is Buttermere in the Lake District. It is taken from the NE side looking to the SW side and, though I have walked around Buttermere many times and visited many more times, it is a view I have never photographed before and a scarcely even seen before; and behind that lie lessons for every photographer and photoimaginator. And no not because it’s always raining! The answer is that I always walk around the lake anti-clockwise starting on the NE side with this view up above me, with the peaks obscured by forest in some areas or just the shoulders of the lower slopes. And by the time I am walking on the SW side, with this view potentially available, I am a little tired, and concentrating; sometimes on the thought of a cool beer and sometimes … On the first stretch you have to walk on the road for a mile, so watching for cars, and then walking over a pretty but overgrown path along the lakeside, many tree roots and many boulders and watching where my feet are going. And failing to look up and failing to pause and stare a while and  look back at this splendid view.  On this occasion,  the walk was not around the lake but up a path called Scarth Gap and on to a mountain called Haystacks. The lesson is simple; pause a moment and look around you (even behind you); who knows what you might discover.