Kendal Castle, Cumbria, Summer

A-Level results for 2020 have been released.

You can read the news if you like about all the controversy regarding this year’s A-Levels, especially due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The news tires me, personally. I was more interested in seeing my town come alive with mid-late teens celebrating and commiserating in equal measure.

Lisabet and I took a post-work evening walk from our place up to Kendal Castle and back, whilst the light was really nice and conditions were blessedly cooler and windier. Up around the grounds of Kendal Castle we found loads of teens, drinking, chatting, enjoying the views and the setting sun.

It made me think about my own A-Level results and how I was feeling at the time. Elated, because seven years of being at the same school was finally over and I was leaving my hometown to head to Uni. Depressed, because it was the end of a chapter and there were a lot of my peers I probably wouldn’t see again.

I would’ve liked to have celebrated that time with friends in the ruins of a castle as the sun set.

All photos here shot on my Fujifilm X-T2 with a Fujinon XF 18–55mm f/2.8–4.0 lens using a customised Classic Chrome film simulation.

I can never resist a photo of Kendal Clock Tower. It’s currently silent and will be for the next 3–4 months whilst it undergoes repairs.

Similarly, it’s hard for me to resist a photo of Miller Bridge. Especially when some lovely light hits it.

Teenagers play around and cool down in the River Kent.

It seems a chunk of tree has been blasted by the recent lightning storms we’ve experienced. Now washed down the River Kent and lodged at Stramongate Weir.