When I returned home this morning I was a little disappointed, I had intended having spent a while on the way home stopping off at various places for misty morning photographs. Sadly the weather wasn’t really suitable – being thick fog and black ice on the smaller roads. Next to where I park the car there is a small wooded area, the Moon was just descending towards the horizon and had dipped beneath the tree tops, I stood for a while looking at the way the Moon lit the scene…
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Reflected Light
I took some photographs of the Moon yesterday illuminating some mist in the valley, and I found myself thinking about how much the Sun influences our lives. After all the light from the Moon illuminating that mist originated in the Sun, the light itself has a very different property when it’s reflected from the Moon. I’m not talking about the physical make up of the reflected light itself, I’m talking about the way Moonlight gives a distinct magical feel to a scene, especially when you add mist into the mix…
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I wasn’t intending to take photographs of the fire, it just ended up that way, I quite liked the way the flames turned out with slower shutter speeds 😉
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I only intended taking one or two photographs this morning, I ended up spending far too long outside –
Read MoreFrom the Moon to frozen lakes
A few photographs starting with the Lunar eclipse – The snow covered Lakeland hills beyond Penrith Snowy Blencathra A frozen Bassenthwaite Lake with a snowy Skiddaw beyond.
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