Bare Trees Reflected In Flood Water

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Jan 112013
 

Bare Trees Reflected In Flood Water

Sometimes I find looking back at old images a bit painful – it’s an odd type of after-the-fact disappointment when you realise that something you used to quite like, or used to be proud of, is actually not that good. It also causes me slight embarrassment when people react favourably to such images.

Of course looking back at your work and feeling like that is perhaps better than wondering where it all went wrong (but naturally I have my fair share of that too).

This image (above, from March 2011) is one that I’ve made similar versions of since, with different cameras and film types – it’s also currently one of the oldest ones that I can go back to and feel 100% happy with.

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Fallen Tree

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Feb 022011
 

Fallen Tree

No matter how many times I visit this location I always seem to find something new, or a slightly different variation on past themes. I guess part of that is down to making sure I leave a couple of months between visits, so each time it looks slightly different – if I go anywhere too regularly I just end up with infinite variations of the same shot.

A simple shot, taken minutes before the sun disappeared over the horizon behind me, trying to make the most of the great light and the extraordinarily still water.

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One Of The Last Days Of Autumn

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Dec 282010
 

One Of The Last Days Of Autumn, Watermead Park

Watermead Park, while there were still leaves on the trees. Seems like a long time ago now, but it was taken just a couple of days before the first snows and winter arrived.

As the sun was setting around 4pm and the weather had been reasonably dry I’d been postponing my lunchbreaks and taking them later in the day so that I could cycle around Watermead Park in the hour before sunset. This mix of light stopped me in my tracks and was the first of a number of shots I took this afternoon, before the light faded.

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Winter Sunset at Cropston Reservoir

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Jan 062010
 

Winter Sunset at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire

One of my favourite locations for both sunsets and getting a bit of peace and quiet – although the mood was spoilt a bit by people shooting nearby when I was there last time :)

There is quite a prominent bit of foreground at this location which is shot very often, indeed I’ve done so myself on a number of occasions, but this simple view across the gently rippling water as the sun sinks behind the trees is my favourite.

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Boat on Cropston Reservoir

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Oct 112009
 

Boat on Cropston Reservoir

With Cropston Reservoir being the location of my first sunset shot, it seems fitting that it was also the first place I sat with my camera and waited for the sun to rise.

I’m not really very good at getting up in the morning, but with the sun rising a little later now (7:22am on the morning this was taken) I figured now was as good a time as any, before Autumn turns into Winter and it becomes too cold to use the camera without gloves.

I took a few shots before this one, with just the ND4 grad on, but the foreground was too dark – I wanted the sunlight to be casting a night glow on the boat. I popped to my bag to get the rest of my filters but unfortunately I’d left my filter wallet open and they were all covered in condensation. I had a frantic couple of minutes trying to get the ND8 grad dry and smear free before the run rose too high in the sky.

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Technical info : Sigma 18-200 lens at 21mm, 1/20s, f11.0, ISO100, ND4 and ND8 grads

Sunset at Cropston Reservoir

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May 252009
 

Sunset at Cropston Reservoir

This was the first sunset I ever really paid attention to – and the first one I witnessed with my camera. I hadn’t previously been aware of just how much the light changes before and after the sun goes down and being there was accidental – I had actually gone to take pictures of some boats I had noticed there earlier in the week.

I’d just taken delivery of some new filters – a light blue grad and a light tobacco grad, both Kood – and was keen to try them out. After getting the shots I wanted I started to wander back to the car when I noticed that the sun had finally disappeared from view and there was a slight ripple moving across the otherwise still reservoir.

I used both filters here – the tobacco one at the bottom and the blue one at the top. Technically I should have included some foreground but the colours in this were pleasing enough for me to not mind its exclusion.

Technical details:- 0.125 sec (1/8s), f/8.0, 21 mm