A fab morning out on Buttermere with Terry Roberts, I think we spent just shy of 3 hours down here waiting for little windows of the 'right' conditions, a few people came and went in that time.

The lake was rippling over quite a lot at times and we just had to wait and hope for light and mist to be present when it cleared again, I think in all I've come away with 4 maybe 5 shots from this morning that I'm really pleased with which is more than 1 an hour so I really can't grumble at that ratio !

It was still really gorgeous as we left but I think we had both got what we wanted so decided that a change of location was on the cards, seriously hard to tear yourself away from this place though...

Nikon D850 Nikon 70-200 f/4 ISO 50 f/11 1/15

NiSi landscape Cpl Fotopro T-74C tripod Fotopro LG-9R ballhead

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While I've got quite a lot of new images to post up from recent trips I thought I'll keep those back after finding several from previous trips while transferring files around, numerous ones unprocessed including this from Buttermere at dawn, it seemed a bit criminal to keep this gathering dust at the expense of new stuff.

I remember this was a particularly good morning, not only for light but for the lake being perfect for reflections long enough to take your images, it can be a massive pain when you start a sequence here only to get ripples appearing half way through, then it's delete, and back to the start again to wait for hopefully another calm spell, which may never appear, or if it does the light may be flat...

This one was shot a good while after sunrise with the light hitting Fleetwith Pike high up before cascading down illuminating Haystacks and onto the sides of Red Pike which form an arrow leading down the lonely Char Hut (fishing hut) on the shoreline, I always get a bit fed up when you get plain skies in the lakes but it totally makes up for it when you can get totally flat water with nice light, and thus you can create a nice wide symmetrical image, sends your eyes a bit squiffy if you look at the horizon line...

I couldn't think of an image title so just I've just nicked one of the lyrics off the last track on Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, which just happened to be on.

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Ok ok, I know what you're thinking...Yes it's been done before, done to death etc etc. I've even got 2 different Panoramic versions of this scene printed huge in my house, so why would I want to shoot it again? quite simply because in the right light it's absolutely stunning and I love it. I might even go for the 'hat-trick' and get this printed to put with the other 2.

So that's that out the way :-) This one was at the end of a rather long morning on the shore here (around 3 hours) with Terry Roberts. We saw people (photographers) come, and go and apart from the earlier 'mist festival' that kicked off this was undoubtably some of the best light of the entire morning, and there was only us here for it.

I couldn't resist a pano of this scene with the light streaming down the side of Fleetwith Pike lighting up the Autumn colours with the Lake lovely and calm, still a little mist hanging around too to finish the scene off. To be able to spend 3 hours in one spot it has to be pretty special, and to me this is one of my favourite spots in the UK, I don't go often, but when I do I always enjoy it just as much.

Fotopro 74C tripod Fotopro LGNikon D810 Nikon 70-200 f/4 @ 100mm Fotopro T--9R ballhead NiSi 100mm Landscape Cpl Nisi 100mm 3 stop ND

ISO 64 f/11 1/20 second

9 Image vertical stitch - My PC almost died doing it, 9 x D850 RAW files in a pano :-0... need a new PC I think.

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A shot from back in April this year, I had been meaning to post this at the time but as usual you take other things and then they become the priority and so on and so on and things get lost to hopefully be found later. Earlier this week I had the good fortune to be included in Flickrs choice top UK shots for 2016 -

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The image they chose was a panoramic from that very same morning and made me revisit the original files where I found this one again...

The lone fishing or 'char hut' on the banks of Buttermere in the Lake District at about 5 in the morning, the first direct light hitting the tops of the mountains and illuminating the craggy rock formations, I wanted to try and get one concentrating on the lone hut and reflections before the waters started to move, the little stopper sorting that out nicely in any event, giving me 13 seconds and an almost painted look to the reflections in the lake.

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Over the last week or so I've actually managed to get some new material to post up here but seeing as this one has been sat there waiting a lot longer I've decided to post this instead so it doesn't get passed by again...

A fab morning on Buttermere with Terry Roberts where we were rewarded with just incredible conditions, I think we spent about 3 or so hours here from before Sunrise to well afterwards, photographers came and went but we just stayed shooting the altering conditions amidst the most brilliant light.

The bright band along the shoreline is actually the last remnants of an enourmous load of mist that had been hovering over the Lake, it had slowly been burned away by the appearing sunlight over the tops of the fells, leaving just a small band of it around the shoreline.

Probably the best single morning I've had here.

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