Rydal
A beautiful and nice and peaceful part of the Lake District, well it is at this time of day... Early morning...... very early morning....., wellies on and in the lake with the long lens on, the sunrise hadn't been one of those amazing ones that you crave for but it isn't always needed if you alter your requirements for the scene...
After shooting wider versions of this I've just found this image which I like as much as the rest, tight in on the little isolated boathouse with some great light cascading in from the East allowing for a long enough exposure here to render loads of detail (no filters needed), there's a lone duck fishing about for food in the reeds in you zoom in.
All about the light.,
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An image from last month where I'd decided on the spare of the moment to drive up to Ambleside and climb up Loughrigg Fell in the dark to shoot sunrise over Windermere, as you do....
I'd got to the start of the walk a lot earlier than I thought in pitch black, which was just as well as I took a wrong turning on the climb up and had to backtrack for a while, still, I had plenty of time to get up to where I wanted to be so it wasn't a big issue.
Any one familiar with this spot will notice there is something that appears to have gone completely missing from this scene....
The mist I wanted was actually very feint and didn't hang around for long in the valley below but I still got some decent sky colour for a short amount of time so I opted for a long exposure to create some interesting cloud movement over the lake.
Not exactly the image I was after but I still like it and a great morning spent up in the hills watching the sun come up.
Nikon D850 Nikon 16-35 f/4 ISO 64 145 seconds
NiSi V6 System NiSi 100mm 6 stop ND NiSi 100mm 4 stop medium GND Fotopro T-74C Tripod Fotopro T-9R Ballhead
An idyllic still morning on Rydal Water in Springtime.
The sunrise colours were very muted this morning but stil really pleasant, they really didn't last long at all, I've shot this location a good few times now and you can see the sky changing very clearly to your left as you face this way down the lake, might be something, might be nothing, you never know what you are going to get... one thing that doesn't change though is being stood in the lake with your wellies on at dawn as the sun comes up is always magical regardless of what image you get, (or don't).
The water was perfectly still this morning so I had to be the same stood in the water so as not to cause any ripples on the surface, falling in never helps either, I've got form for such things....thankfully that didn't happen on this trip...
At last a day off, and another very early morning trip to the Lake District. A very misty / foggy day today, the sunrise didn't happen, well it did but you wouldn't have known it apart from the dwindling exposure times.... after shooting dawn at Rydal I headed off towards Elterwater, on the way I saw this out of the corner of my eye and it played on my mind as I went along.....so I turned back for a second look, glad I did as this turned out well, little bit of morning mist, no wind, and with the lovely Autumnal colours really coming through now made for a really pleasant place to spend 30 minutes or so, this being my favourite image from the visit.
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A fantastic morning on the River Brathay towards Elterwater, the forecast looked good for misty conditions the previous evening so Myself, Brad Eide, and Terry Roberts decided to meet here for sunrise.
The misty conditions were great and the water really still apart from a couple of ducks swimming about feeding, the light really didn't last long at all, as soon as it had got good it chnaged and dissapeared very quickly, just a case of working quickly while you had it there and also checking both directions to see what was happening behind you too.
Definitely worth getting up early, really pleased with some of the results from this morning.
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