I had a scrap of illustration board lying around so I decided to practice a landscape in watercolour, well, I’ve been painting quite a few night scenes lately something in daylight was in order 😉 . I’ve never tried one of Great Dun Fell before so I picked that as a subject. It’s one I need to revisit soon.
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Driving home from my last night shift of the week and the sunrise was really distracting, the desire to sleep was pushed aside by the desire to take a photograph or two. A short distance from work the Sun was already poking above the Pennines but there was little in the foreground that was working so I carried on resigned to the fact that it wasn’t working today. Then I realised that as I went down towards the river Eden the Sun wouldn’t be as high in the sky so…
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Popped out with the camera to take a few snow reference images, the Pennines were looking nice with a covering of snow, sadly I didn’t have a sledge to hand.
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A mixed bag of images, mainly because the light kept changing and one minute you thought there wasn’t any point in carrying a camera and the next you couldn’t take enough photographs 😉 Anyway, my day started off taking photographs of leaves and trees by the pond, after a pause I was taking photographs at Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle, I ended the day taking a large panoramic of the Pennines…
Read MoreIt’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got something to post on here 😉 it feels like we’ve have weeks of grey skies, rain, snow, wind…. well in truth we have, but at least yesterday I managed to get out in between rain/sleet/wind to take a quick photograph – yes it did feel good to get out with the camera but sadly I couldn’t repeat the experience today. So, here’s how the cloud looked over the Pennines yesterday afternoon. If this image is difficult to view, try this larger…
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