Cow guarding the path through its field.

This one's from our circular walk around Malham in August last year. There were numerous points that day where cows blocked our way and we had to carefully manoeuvre round them - almost as if their hobby was winding up walkers! This one didn't budge as we left the path to give it a wide berth, then stared at us until we were out of sight!

Camera/lens settings: ISO 400, f/11, 1/160s, 55mm, hand held.

Cows grazing by the river at Malham Cove

I took this one at around 9.30am this morning. We stayed overnight at Malham and, after breakfast, set out on a walk to Malham Tarn, via the Cove. Amazingly, we only passed 2 other people the whole way along the Cove and up to the limestone pavement. There were lots of cows about though - a number of them were lying right in front of the gate half way along the path, meaning we had to creep between them - I like to think they do that on purpose to frighten people!

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/125s, 20mm, hand held.

Cows in field with Blencathra in background

This field is on the opposite side of the lane to the Castlerigg Stone Circle in Keswick. I'd walked there from our holiday home in August this year to take photos of the stones, but when I got there my attention was diverted by this cute cow looking at me over the gate. I thought it'd make a great photo, especially with my favourite mountain, Blencathra, in the background.

In Lightroom I increased exposure, reduced highlights and cropped the image to position the cow on the thirds.