This is another from my Lakes trip last November and follows on neatly from my Castlerigg blog post last week.
Having spent most of the day at Castlerigg I decided to return to this jetty in Barrow Bay on Derwent Water. I say return because I had stopped by this location the previous day while scouting out locations suitable for wet overcast dusk photography - I had seen the long range weather forecast that morning!
Having spent most of the day at Castlerigg I decided to return to this jetty in Barrow Bay on Derwent Water. I say return because I had stopped by this location the previous day while scouting out locations suitable for wet overcast dusk photography - I had seen the long range weather forecast that morning!
Soon after I arrived there were a couple of moments of sunlight on Skiddaw, the mountain on the right, and one dramatic almost complete rainbow* over Skiddaw but my best image was to come after sunset.
Although this was still a little over two weeks before the flooding that brought so much devastation to the area, the water level was still quite high and on this day the ferries that normally sail on the lake and stop off at this jetty had all been cancelled. I have no idea if this level of water is normal, but I have not found any photographs of this jetty this submerged. The previous week I had spied a number of interesting rock patterns on the water's edge around the lake and had hoped to photograph these but they had all now disappeared under the rising water.
This, my last exposure of the day, had required a 5 second exposure which was just enough to erase the ripples from the water.
*Rainbows are a frustrating phenomena. They have knack of teasing the landscape photographer and although I have been lucky to photograph a few rainbows in my time, most have got away and today's was definitely a teaser. My camera was pointed in the opposite direction and by the time I had swung it round and re-focussed, the rainbow was gone.
You need a sense of humour in this job and fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you view these things) a couple joined me on the shoreline half an hour later and asked if I had seen the rainbow which gave me the perfect excuse to share my latest amusing anecdote. They then showed me the rainbow on the back of their compact digital camera - cue more laughter while they quickly made good their escape from the madman and his anecdotes.
It's moments like this, the rainbow that is, not scaring off bystanders, I long for a medium format rangefinder that I can slip into my bag ready for a rainbow moment.
Although this was still a little over two weeks before the flooding that brought so much devastation to the area, the water level was still quite high and on this day the ferries that normally sail on the lake and stop off at this jetty had all been cancelled. I have no idea if this level of water is normal, but I have not found any photographs of this jetty this submerged. The previous week I had spied a number of interesting rock patterns on the water's edge around the lake and had hoped to photograph these but they had all now disappeared under the rising water.
This, my last exposure of the day, had required a 5 second exposure which was just enough to erase the ripples from the water.
*Rainbows are a frustrating phenomena. They have knack of teasing the landscape photographer and although I have been lucky to photograph a few rainbows in my time, most have got away and today's was definitely a teaser. My camera was pointed in the opposite direction and by the time I had swung it round and re-focussed, the rainbow was gone.
You need a sense of humour in this job and fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you view these things) a couple joined me on the shoreline half an hour later and asked if I had seen the rainbow which gave me the perfect excuse to share my latest amusing anecdote. They then showed me the rainbow on the back of their compact digital camera - cue more laughter while they quickly made good their escape from the madman and his anecdotes.
It's moments like this, the rainbow that is, not scaring off bystanders, I long for a medium format rangefinder that I can slip into my bag ready for a rainbow moment.
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