Ken Rennie
Well-Known Member
Wednesday's forecast looked very promising. Fog, frost no wind so up early to drive down to Elterwater in the Lake District as it should be good in these conditions. The reality was some fog, no frost and very light winds but for the most part the light was very flat.
Half an hour before dawn on the River Brathay with thoughts of a colourful dawn receeding
I waited for 2 hrs as the fog came and went always with the hope that the sun would break through and finally for a few minutes this happened.
5 shot exposure blends. Lightroom made a decent job of what I thought was going to be tricky
A few seconds later
The sun came out fully for a few minutes then disappeared for the rest of the day.
On to Elterwater a 2 minute walk away hoping for some light and the clouds to lift and allow the mountains the peek out but it wasn't to be. In the end I spent a largely enjoyable 4 hrs and only gave up as it started to rain and a light breeze got up and spoiled the reflections.
The next day, Thursday we experienced what the Meteorologists call explosive cyclogenesis and this brought us 80+mph winds and no electricity for a few hours but West of us in Ireland it topped out at 114mph with monster waves and North of us in Southern Scotland only 100mph with snow and or heavy rain. It has started to calm down here but they are forecasting another storm on Monday but not this severe. Ken
Half an hour before dawn on the River Brathay with thoughts of a colourful dawn receeding
I waited for 2 hrs as the fog came and went always with the hope that the sun would break through and finally for a few minutes this happened.
5 shot exposure blends. Lightroom made a decent job of what I thought was going to be tricky
A few seconds later
The sun came out fully for a few minutes then disappeared for the rest of the day.
On to Elterwater a 2 minute walk away hoping for some light and the clouds to lift and allow the mountains the peek out but it wasn't to be. In the end I spent a largely enjoyable 4 hrs and only gave up as it started to rain and a light breeze got up and spoiled the reflections.
The next day, Thursday we experienced what the Meteorologists call explosive cyclogenesis and this brought us 80+mph winds and no electricity for a few hours but West of us in Ireland it topped out at 114mph with monster waves and North of us in Southern Scotland only 100mph with snow and or heavy rain. It has started to calm down here but they are forecasting another storm on Monday but not this severe. Ken
