Good day everyone and welcome to my latest blog recording my recent visit to Elterwater .
June has been a quiet month for me photography wise, until I looked at the weather apps, we were heading for a morning of pre, and post sunrise mist followed by some sunshine, ideal conditions I thought.
The alarm goes off at 2.45am, ridiculously early I know, but needs must and as a Cumbria photographer I needed to get to the south of the county.
River Brathay
I arrived at the River Brathay 45 minutes before sunrise, this being one of the best photography locations in the Lake District for misty conditions.
I had plenty of time to settle in and secure a good spot, the mist was present, but it was peasouper, the mist was so dense with little or no chance of it being burnt in time for sunrise.
As there was little or no chance of the sun making an appearance, I set to work with the conditions.
The fist photos were taken from the bank of the River Brathay looking back towards Elterwater, I found some coloured grass seeds that contrasted to the bleak, almost monochrome conditions, and balanced this with three small bushes on the opposite bank of the river.
I then slowly made my way along the riverbank trying to find some reasonable photos, this ended up me looking for some small detail within the frame in the hope that it would add some interest.
In this shot I simply used two tall grass seeds to flank the wooded cops on the opposite side of the river.
I was struggling, the mist showed no sigh of lifting and time was pressing, it was now 15 minutes after sunrise, and we were still swamped in thick, dull mist., the joys of being a Cumbria landscape photographer
I bumped into a fellow photographer on the edge of Elterwater who was visiting from Nottingham, we had a long conversation about all thing’s lake district and photography.
It was here that I found a brightly coloured Pepper Pig shoe that had been placed in the “y” joint of a tree, I couldn’t resist the shot, a photo that was made to manipulate in post editing, what do you think of this, would you prefer the photo below, it being all colour, or it being all black and white, please feel free to leave a comment.
As my time was running out, I began to track back to the car, where I snapped a shot of the winding footpath leading in to the abyss, with some trees shrouded in mist.
I walked back through the meadows and found loads and loads of spiders webs, coated in droplets of moisture and silhouetted against the dark background, another snap and grab scenario.
Immediately after this I took my last shot of the morning using the meadow foliage as foreground against the tree shrouded in mist.
Another Lake District Sunrise photography shoot done, not as planned, but worthwhile in getting me out and about again.
Thank you for finding the time to read this short blog, until next time stay safe.
