Having spent the last 6 weekends on short holidays, visiting family, or attending concerts, it was time to drag my backside out of my bed and get out with the camera again.
The weather forecast was a bit hitty or missy, but what the heck, the alarm was set for the ridiculously early time of 3.15am, even though I was only going to Crummock Water, which is about 30 minutes travel time from where I live.
The car was parked, and I was of towards the lake, well before sunrise, with the hope of some misty conditions, has I had driven through some thick pockets of mist on my journey here.
I arrived at the lake side and took some time to take in the view and conditions, we had mist was floating along the waters surface, with me hoping for some colour to be cast into the sky as the sun rose over the hills to the east.
A took a couple of images during the Blue Hour, mainly to check composition and framing, it was not long before we had some hint of pink in the shy to the west, everything was looking good.
The waters surface suddenly became alot calmer, which produced a mirror like surface, things were going form good to great, I snapped away over a period of 40 minutes as the conditions were ever-changing, switching between 4 x 3 format and panoramic format.
After a hour or so, I decided to move further round the shoreline to get a different perspective on things.
We had some lovely light, mist and reflections on display, I was as happy as a kid in a candy store.
Once the sun was up and above the hills, I tried my hand at a bit of woodland photography as there were some interesting shaped trees along the shoreline, admittingly, I do struggle with woodland photography, I find it so hard to pick out interesting aspects of the confusion.
This got my brain cells working, try and find some interesting foreground to complement the gorgeous scenes along the lake, so off I set trying to pick out items that I thought would add a interesting element to the photo.
I also threw on the telephoto lens to pick out detail of the scenes in front of me, I was in full flow now, and was so pleased that i had found the desire to get up and out with the camera, hopefully the flame has been re-ignited.
During the three hours that I was at Crummock water, I only saw two other people who were walking their dog. What a really enjoyable morning I had, and a couple of decent photos to boot.
Thank you for taking the time to read this news update, and until next time, take care and stay safe.
