Sunset at Wast Water #3, Wasdale, Lake District, England
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I always love coming here, whatever time of year, whatever the weather, it never fails to just blow you away with it's grandeur and drama, today was no different. Myself, Mike Muddyboots - www.flickr.com/photos/muddybootsuk/41776893231/in/datepos... , and Brad Eide over on holiday from America www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/ had had a really long (but very fruitful) days photography in the Lakes and this was our last area for the day, the lake wasn't still as we had hoped for but we had superb light and skies so plenty to be going on with.
While the others were shooting I was really struggling to find something to shoot which would be different from my previous images here, the yellow gorse bushes were really glowing in the sun but unfortunately none of them were in a decent position to get any kind of decent composition, so after 30 mins or so of walking around I eventually settled on this spot in the lake with the trusty wellies on :-), and decided to make the image all about the foreground while still getting some nice light on the mountains in the rear of the frame.
Just as we finished up here the light just died, totally flat, and it didn't return for sunset, as we drove off towards the head of the valley to try our luck we saw one lone photographer walking over the hill towards the lake with his tripod, couldn't help but feel sorry for him as he had missed the light totally, but, it would be hard to get fed up about such things in a place like this, still one of my favourite spots in all of the UK, I think Brad was suitably impressed too on his first visit. Brad made a remark to me about me being really lucky only living 1.5 hours drive away from the Lakes, oddly I'd never really thought of it in that way before (as I still considered it a bit of a long way), and I really shouldn't, because it isn't, 1.5 hours is nothing really, I guess living somewhere the size of the USA really makes the UK feel tiny, not something that I had really appreciated before, so thanks Brad!
A vlog by Mike of our trip can be found here- really worth a watch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbghJ2rFhD8&feature=em-upload...
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Paid a short visit to the Lake District for a quick scout round, probably a bad idea on a Bank Holiday Monday, no where to park in most places, Wastwater was one of the exceptions!
