While I was in hospital being given Cycle 2 chemo my parents brought me a get-well card to cheer me up. They know how much I like walking in the Lake District and how often I've been there, so the card had been chosen appropriately. "You'll know exactly where that was taken from" was their assumption as I looked at the picture:
Well, I had to admit that it had me puzzled.
The back of the card wasn't much help either:
Well, I was utterly bamboozled - I've been to Buttermere so many times that I should have a fair holding of shares in The Fish Inn, yet I still couldn't place the point of view in the pic.
Yesterday I was sad enough to resort to the map-stash in order to find out more info. It took me over an hour to find out what's really in the image and where it was taken from.
And yes, I had been there long ago.
Are you up for the same challenge?*
Just in case you want to order cards like this, they are available online from the Stephen Ashmore Photography Greetings Card Website.
*So, it was too difficult, eh?
Here's some additional help, in a negative sort of way...
Neither Buttermere village nor Buttermere itself are in the picture;
Only in the broadest sense could the photo have been taken from Buttermere; and
I assume that neither the walkers nor the sheep are still there.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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Just a quick guess. Is that Peggys Bridge in the foreground?
Same as my first thoughts, but no.
Peggy's Bridge crosses a long straight section of Warnscale Beck, no doubt an artificial route, very unlike the meandering rocky bed in the pic.
Good try, though 🙂
Clues added