The choice for an image this week was a tough call as, unusually, I was rather spoilt for choice of images from a batch of images made in Wastwater in the Lake District during the last family holiday in October.
I'd fallen in love with Wastwater the first time I visited and always wanted to take the family there. We visited the previous year, but thick fog obscured all but the shoreline that day. This day was very different and was perhaps one of the most beautiful days I can remember. A perfect day to visit such a dramatic location.
We'd planned to walk all the way round the lake and headed off in an anti-clockwise direction, little realising the challenge that awaited us along The Screes. Our first inkling of what lay ahead was from a friendly couple we met coming the other way. “The path disappears in a few yards and there's a rock scramble for a while.” they warned. “Your kids will love it!”
Well, two of our brood were soon off scrambling over the rocks and disappeared out of sight. The third however developed an irrational fear of anything that wasn't completely flat solid rock and progress slowed until she finally lay down, hugged a large boulder and refused to let go. In half an hour we'd moved about 20 meters or so and now with a stubborn teenager glued to a rock I noticed how low in the sky the sun was getting. It was time to admit defeat and turn back.
My disappointment soon turned into delight when I realised we were being treated to wonderful light over the lake and surrounding fells creating the most vivid colours. Being at the south western end of the lake we were in the prime position to enjoy the display as the sun set. Had we continued our walk we'd have been at the wrong end of the lake to see this display (or possibly still clinging to a rock in the dark.) Much as I love my large format camera, I was grateful of my digital camera today and as we slowly returned to the car I made a unusually (for me) large number of pictures.
As I said, I was rather spoilt for choice for a picture this week, but my final choice was this abstract view of The Screes reflected in the water. Wastwater is a well photographed location and there are few, if any, compositions that have not been photographed before. I work very hard to try to produce something different from a location but at such a popular place this can be a difficult task. This is the one picture of the location I do not recall seeing before and in my mind is possibly one of the more successful alternative pictures I have made.
I would have loved to have exposed this picture on a sheet of 4x5 inch Velvia transparency film but I suspect this might have been one of those images I would have overlooked if I had been in large format mode.
We'd planned to walk all the way round the lake and headed off in an anti-clockwise direction, little realising the challenge that awaited us along The Screes. Our first inkling of what lay ahead was from a friendly couple we met coming the other way. “The path disappears in a few yards and there's a rock scramble for a while.” they warned. “Your kids will love it!”
Well, two of our brood were soon off scrambling over the rocks and disappeared out of sight. The third however developed an irrational fear of anything that wasn't completely flat solid rock and progress slowed until she finally lay down, hugged a large boulder and refused to let go. In half an hour we'd moved about 20 meters or so and now with a stubborn teenager glued to a rock I noticed how low in the sky the sun was getting. It was time to admit defeat and turn back.
My disappointment soon turned into delight when I realised we were being treated to wonderful light over the lake and surrounding fells creating the most vivid colours. Being at the south western end of the lake we were in the prime position to enjoy the display as the sun set. Had we continued our walk we'd have been at the wrong end of the lake to see this display (or possibly still clinging to a rock in the dark.) Much as I love my large format camera, I was grateful of my digital camera today and as we slowly returned to the car I made a unusually (for me) large number of pictures.
As I said, I was rather spoilt for choice for a picture this week, but my final choice was this abstract view of The Screes reflected in the water. Wastwater is a well photographed location and there are few, if any, compositions that have not been photographed before. I work very hard to try to produce something different from a location but at such a popular place this can be a difficult task. This is the one picture of the location I do not recall seeing before and in my mind is possibly one of the more successful alternative pictures I have made.
I would have loved to have exposed this picture on a sheet of 4x5 inch Velvia transparency film but I suspect this might have been one of those images I would have overlooked if I had been in large format mode.
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