Wooden doors on a stone barn.

I walked past this barn a few times on holiday in the Lake District this year and noticed how lovely the wood looked against the pale stone and roof. Each time, however, there was a big 4x4 parked right in front of them. (The barn is just beneath Catbells, on the road down to Stair.) Eventually, I decided to just photograph the bit I could see, above the vehicle. In Lightroom, I de-saturated everything but the doors, to help them stand out.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/9, 1/125s, 35mm, hand held.

Run-down barn near Stoodley Pike.

Today I walked from Mytholmroyd to Stoodley Pike, Todmorden, and back with my sons. We passed this barn on the way back - I love how isolated it looks. I always want to go and explore old buildings like this, but resisted the temptation today.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/6.3, 1/320s, 35mm, hand held.

Old barn in an overgrown field

This little barn is just off the path around Malham Tarn. It was getting quite dark when I took the photo one evening earlier this month and I didn't have my tripod, so used a high ISO. You can see the smoothing-out effect of the noise reduction tool in Lightroom - it makes it look like a painting, which I think works well on this image.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 800, f/9, 1/125s, 34mm, hand held.

Sunny Spring morning at Widdop Reservoir

I love this view - the shapes of the trees, the barn and the stone walls combined with the colours of the water and the moorland just work together so well. I stood and looked at it for ages on this walk (in April this year), taking the same photo many times as the different clouds passed overhead, creating different patterns with their shadows.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/160s, 38mm, hand held.

Daffodils at Widdop reservoir

This is the last of 3 reservoirs I passed on a morning walk a couple of weeks ago - definitely the most photogenic of the 3. I absolutely loved the barn and trees on the far bank - they'll feature in quite a few more photos to follow! The light on the far hillside (the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire) was also really beautiful.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/160s, 32mm, hand held.

Barrow Beck, above Ashness Bridge, Cumbria

This is the view upstream from the point where Barrow Beck runs under Ashness Bridge, just above Derwentwater, Cumbria. I love the shape of the little barn, the textures of the rocks and the splashes of green from the grass and ferns and white from the falling water.

I just made small tweaks to exposure and contrast in Lightroom.

Sheep, barn and dry stone wall at Malham

Another one from our walk around Malham, North Yorkshire in August this year. This is halfway between the Cove and Gordale Scar. I thought the barn, wall and gates were lovely anyway, but the sheep were perfectly positioned to make an even better composition - I had to be quick before they moved!

In Lightroom, I used a grad filter to bring exposure down in the sky.

Barn and plough at Malham

This barn is alongside the river that runs down through Malham below Janet's Foss. I took the photo in August this year because I liked the contrasts in shapes, colours and textures between the stone of the barn, the trees, grass and rusty plough (I think it's a plough!).

I didn't have time to get my settings right in camera, so had to make quite a few changes in Lightroom: slight reduction to exposure; increase in contrast; slight increases to vibrance and saturation; crop to improve composition.