Steve Pellatt
A Pocketful of Mist
It's been a while now since I got out shooting for a sunrise...Bude in mid-May in fact. I'm an early riser but when it's 1--2.5hrs to get into position and then trying to be there for blue hours even I can't get the enthusiasm up to get out in mid summer. I did however see that there was a forecast for widespread fog from west Hampshire westwards for a big chunk of the country so I gritted my teeth and set my alarm for 4am with a view to trying to grab some shots in the New Forest national Park and check out the heather situation.
Unfortunately the widespread fog was invisible so I'd been lured from my bed under false pretences😒. There was the odd pocket of land where some mist had gathered so on my way to my planned spot I stopped the car just after sunrise and shot the image above. You can see a bit of the early heather in the foreground and some of the areas are certainly starting to colour up. Hopefully all the flaming rain we've had to put up with this year will give as good a crop of heather as we had last summer after another really wet Winter/Spring.
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A Pocketful of Mist
It's been a while now since I got out shooting for a sunrise...Bude in mid-May in fact. I'm an early riser but when it's 1--2.5hrs to get into position and then trying to be there for blue hours even I can't get the enthusiasm up to get out in mid summer. I did however see that there was a forecast for widespread fog from west Hampshire westwards for a big chunk of the country so I gritted my teeth and set my alarm for 4am with a view to trying to grab some shots in the New Forest national Park and check out the heather situation.
Unfortunately the widespread fog was invisible so I'd been lured from my bed under false pretences😒. There was the odd pocket of land where some mist had gathered so on my way to my planned spot I stopped the car just after sunrise and shot the image above. You can see a bit of the early heather in the foreground and some of the areas are certainly starting to colour up. Hopefully all the flaming rain we've had to put up with this year will give as good a crop of heather as we had last summer after another really wet Winter/Spring.
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.