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Here is a selection of thumbnail photos, which you can view at a larger scale. The photos are taken on walks with the Penrith Ramblers or are of interest to Penrith Ramblers. Walks are regularly taken in areas within a reasonable travelling distance of Penrith, Cumbria. These areas include the Lake District, the Eden Valley, the Howgill Fells, the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and Southern Scotland. However, photos may at times be outside these areas, even on other continents.

The original photographs may be about 5 megapixels in size. To reduce download times, the larger version of each photograph, that you can view measures about 1000 pixels by 750 pixels and being in 'jpeg' format is often less than 250 KB in size - a trade-off of speed against quality. If you would like a higher quality picture, e-mail the website manager with your request.

Members of the Penrith Group of Ramblers may submit photos for future inclusion, though no guarantee is given that every photo submitted will be put on the site and photos may be cropped to improve their presentation.

To print out a colour photo. First switch on your colour printer. Having displayed the photo (see below), use your browser to select the 'Open image' facility. This should open a new window showing just the image. Then select 'Print'. This should bring up your printer dialogue box. Before selecting 'Print' again, make sure you have 'Print Preview' selected, so that you can cancel printing if necessary. Getting the 'Open image' facility may differ between browsers. For example, with the Opera browser, you need to right-click on the image. This opens a dialogue box, where you can select 'Open Image'. There is also a facility to 'Save image', which you might prefer to do first before printing, as this allows you to make adjustments to the photo using photo software.

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Fotopic gallery containing previous photos.

You may view previous collections of photographs, which were on this site. They have been loaded into a photo gallery, run by Fotopic. The gallery is named 'Walkers' and inside there are collections of thumbnail photos, each labelled with the date they first appeared on the Penrith Ramblers web site. You are able to view these photos at medium or full size and also view them as a slide show. A facility to print photos and make comments is available. The site also contains advertisements, which are not under the control of Penrith Ramblers.

Instructions for viewing photos.

Individual Photo Selection: Click on a (thumbnail) photo to get an enlarged view of that photo. You can select photos in any order. You should be able to use this method with a dial-up connection but with long download times you will need to be patient.

Slide show Mode, (Javascript (script in IE) must be enabled.)
- Manual stepping mode.
  Click on NEXT to view the next photo in the sequence, BACK to view the previous photo, >>| to jump to last photo in folder and |<< to jump to first photo in folder. Photos are displayed in the order that the thumbnails appear.
- Autoplay mode:
  Click on Start Slide Show to view photos successively. The photo will change automatically..
  Click on Stop Slide Show to end autoplay.
  The default display time per photo is 10 seconds. Each time you click on Less Time the time decreases by 1 second to a minimum of 5 seconds and each time you click on More Time the time increases by 1 second to a maximum of 16 seconds.

The slideshow is intended for those with internet connections of 1 M bits/second or more. Because the speed of browsers using telephone lines will vary with traffic and distance from an exchange, you may still exceed the allotted time of about 5 seconds for downloading an image, when stepping through the photo display. When stepping through the display manually, go fairly slowly the first time. If you have any problems, allow a second or so to pass and try again. This should bring up the image. Once the browser cache has been loaded with all the images, then they can then be viewed much more quickly.

Corrupted downloads. Unfortunately Internet Explorer sometimes produces an incomplete download of a photograph, so that only an upper section of the photograph is visible. If you have this problem, more information can be obtained from the Site Management page.

It is intended that the set of photos should change about every 4 months. If they have not, try clicking REFRESH or RELOAD on your browser. (Depending on your browser, you may need to do this for each new set of photos on the screen.)