We spent ages trudging through the heather on Eyam Moor trying to find this stone circle, in the end we found it by accident just after we’d given up. The sun, which had popped out from behind the clouds a few times during the afternoon, made a brief appearance to light up the heather.
I should perhaps have taken some shots of the stones, but I got distracted by the light on this piece of grass.
Taken on a recent visit to Yorkshire with Dan.
Whilst many people moan about dull weather and cloudy skies I quite like an overcast day when I’m out in the countryside like this - perhaps you have to think about taking a different type of shot but I find it adds to the feeling of space and emptiness of this type of environment.
The light is also more diffused, which means that not only can colours be more faithfully reproduced than in direct sunlight but it also makes it possible to capture greater detail on the ground without having to worry as much about blown highlights in the sky.
Posted in landscape.
Earlier in the year I set myself a challenge in order to improve my photography and broaden my horizons a bit - I’d seen this concept mentioned in some old magazines that were passed on to me. I find it can get terribly difficult to think of things to photograph so I decided to combine two of my favourite past times, cycling and photography.
The idea was that I would attempt to find something to take pictures of each time I went out - it didn’t matter what - just anything that took my fancy.
On this occasion I was taking a short cut across some fields. It was early spring and despite the sunshine the ground was a little too wet for cycling, let alone lying on, so I got pretty soaked getting this shot.
Despite having the features I wanted, the shot didn’t capture my feelings at the time - the warmth of the first sunny day of the year, the freedom of being out doing what I wanted to do. It needed to be more fluffy and dreamlike and fortunately I knew exactly what I was going to do.
A friend on Flickr produces some fine textures for layering and I already had one in mind that would add the tone I was looking for to the picture.
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Posted in textures.
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