Appleby Horse Fair is one of the largest in Europe and takes place early every June. It is held in a field commonly known as Fair Hill, less than a mile from Appleby town centre. The fair took place this year from Thursday 4th - Monday 8th June, I was there with my camera on Friday.

An early start one frosty morning in April resulted in some stunning pictures of Castlerigg Stone Circle and Ashness Bridge. View them for yourself in the Keswick & Derwentwater gallery.

As promised, I have now created a new web site dedicated to wedding and portrait photography by Darren Athersmith. Lakeland-Images.co.uk will remain as a showcase for my landscape and event photography but I felt that weddings and portraits deserved a dedicated site which will include password protected galleries for customer images. If you want to see how it looks then check it out on www.darrenathersmith.com