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A quite big title to live up to, but to me, this moment here truly was one of those, perched in one spot for about an hour just watching this whole scenario unfold before my eyes really felt very surreal, almost like I wasn't even there.
I've uploaded one before from this morning that was an extremely long exposure, somewhere in the region of about 7 or 8 minutes, I shot that after taking this one, and that time it took for the image to be created just allowed me to stand here take all this in without having to worry about the camera all the time, I could just stand there occasionally checking my watch (and that my ears were still there as they were that cold) and just watch what mother nature had decided to dish up this day, truly a hairs on the back of the neck standing up revelation moment....
Anyway this is a lot shorter exposure to capture the detail in the beautiful tidal rush as it passes through the intricate and snow laden basalt archway.
Brrrrrrrrrr!!!!
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The lighting up here this day was nothing short of incredible with a passing storm front it was changing dramatically minute by minute from really dark to really light, dappled light, and pretty much everything inbetween including driving wind, rain, and hail.
Snow covered Blaven at the rear, and the snow covered peak to the fore would completely vanish for long periods before reappearing looking dramatic as ever.
This shot was a case of setting up the shot, waiting and watching for the best conditions to (maybe) appear where you could at least see everything.
This was the resulting image with all the peaks illuminated, the house, and the foreground rocks underneath a really powerful sky, in a location like this it's very tempting to just snap away but waiting can often be far more productive.
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Seeing as Winter is rapidly approaching I thought I'd post this one up from earlier in the year, it's looking increasingly unlikely I'll be going to Iceland in the Winter again this coming year with everything that's currently going on, I can't even get out to travel and shoot much in this Country let alone abroad until things change... but I guess most of us are in the same boat for now...
This was shot at sunrise at Jokusarlon on the South East Coast of Iceland, there was a tinny little window of opportunity where the sun was going to be visible due to the very heavy clouds, so when it popped it's head over the horizon you had to be ready...
The ice to the rear is acting as a great light splitter, projecting the warm light towards the main Ice Berg as if it was a red carpet (well OK, Orange....) for it's arrival onto the black sands.
Even though it was this year, this seems like an absolute age away now!
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The absolute depths of Winter in Iceland.
This normally pounding was waterfall at Kirkjufell now reduced to a mere 'shower' encased within what appears to be a naturally formed Ice Cave or Grotto, there were actually 2 of these that has formed around the 2 main spouts of the falls, (the bigger panoramic image can been further back in my stream here - www.flickr.com/photos/pete37038/49487921378/in/dateposted/ ). This is from a different perpective and just concentrating on the detail in one of the 'archways'
Whilst some people would no doubt see this archway as a dream 'selfie location' for Instagram, this was as close as it was safe to go, and it was shot at 190mm from a safe position on the banking, there was literally no way of telling how thick the ice was underneath the snowfall, and I had absolutely no intention of findiing out !
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Taking a small hiatus from the recent Iceland trip, this is North Wales back in December.
A truly killer morning on Llyn Padarn weatherwise, and still the best place to shoot on the lake here, I'd been here the day before but the conditions weren't as good with rippled water and a very average boring sky, a repeat trip was rewarded with these conditions, this is the scond of these I've uploaded with the first being in Portrait format.
I'd come up here to do some more exploring of Dinorwic over a few days but this little spot is just impossible to pass by with it being so close on the opposite side of the lake...
The light this morning just got better and better with the surrounding hills over to Dinorwic getting illuminated with golden light, and all the while no wind at all, so the tree was perfectly still, you cannot ask for anymore really.
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I was about to post a shot of the Comet Neowise from a few weeks ago in Wales, then remembered I'd found this one a few days ago, a completely random one out of the archives from a gorgeous Summers evening in Glencoe a few years ago.
This spot is literally about 10 seconds from the main road in Glencoe yet you can't see it as you drive past in either direction, I wasn't holding out hope of there being any water in the river here due to having been very hot over the previous few days but I was pleasantly surprised to find just enough to construct a shot around.
Not even the tiniest bit of wind either on this evening so the still is perfectly still and no movement in the water, brilliant for photography, sadly, also brilliant for the midges, which meant I couldn't hang around here for long as I was getting eaten alive!
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An absolutely freezing cold day at Kirkjufell on the Snaefellsness Peninsula in Iceland.
The waterfalls here at Kirjufellfoss had been reduced to just one stream with the majority of them totally frozen, giving a really different take on the scene from what I had shot here before, this was shot around sunset with a large number of storms rolling past, one of which can be seen drifting past to the left.
I don't usually include people in my shots but couldn't resist this one as the lone person was not only ideal for scale, I like how they are pointing towards the mountain taking a photo.
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A fabulous morning down on the beach at Stokksnes where for once the wind wasn't blowing a hoolie and the clouds weren't blocking the upper peaks of Vestrahorn Mountain, in fact you couldn't have asked for much more with the morning light playing ball lighting up all the detail in the rugged peaks. The light here, as with Iceland can be very very different to what we get in the UK with some very unsual colours at times, and cloud formations that just defy belief, at this time of year you're only looking at about 4+ hours of daylight per day, but in the those 4 hours it's like a permanant golden hour, if the clouds and rain/snow play ball it can be magical.
No matter how many times you come here it's pretty much guaranteed to be totally different each time, you never know what you will come away with, whether that might be a good soaking, a face full, and camera bag full of black sand that has been pelted at you at 80mph or more, the wind trying to rip the car doors off, or hopefully some decent images. Having experienced all of that here it was great to just be able to shoot for once! Although the other scenarios are certainly charachter building!
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A direct follow on from my last shot published on here - www.flickr.com/photos/pete37038/50144319997/in/photostream/ and so the image name was easy to choose :-) , this was shot about 30 minutes later with the sun just about to drop below the horizon I've managed to 'trap' it in the corner of the Lighthouse under the entrance steps.
With the tide being out (it was rapidly coming in at this point) you can get some fab textures on the beach here closer to the wonky lighthouse, just a case of working quickly here with the changing sky and tide, within 10 minutes all this foreground was totally underwater.
Probably the last one from here I'll post for a while so as not to flood the stream with images from the same spot, I headed off to Anglesey from here for an overnight shoot, I'll post the images from that up next.
I'm not sure why this Lighthouse leans so much, I mean I'm no architechtural guru or anything, but you would think that if you are going to plop a ruddy great bit of concrete and steel construction onto a wet sandy beach of all things, you might plan for the eventuality that it might not be the most steady of surfaces to build on.... I mean I was watching each image here like a hawk to check that my tripod hadn't sunk during the shot, nevermind a giant lighthouse lol
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Probably the last one I'll post from Scaleber Falls from this visit.
Although I like shooting dramatic falls, I really like the water levels when they are like this giving just wispy hints of water, and it really goes well with the lush vibrant Summer colours down here at the moment. Considering I'd forgotten my polariser I'm really pleased with the results from here and may pop back next week and take in a few different locations as well, we've had quite a bit more rainfall since then too so a lot of places should look very different.
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March 2021, and still rooting away through the archives due to no new material... the only good side to it is that I really am going through my images properly from shoots that could easily have been overlooked.
This shot in the height of Winter at Godafoss in Northern Iceland, at what has to be one of my favourite locations in the Country, shot at sunrise, the few snow free rocks around the falls are catching the early light nicely.
It'll be the best part of a year before I'll be able to get over here again, if we are allowed, really miss the place, along with everywhere else! Hopefully not long now until things start to improve and I can pick up a camera again in the places I want to go to.
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So this is a NEW picture, it's fair to say I've almost forgotten what one of those is, Lockdown hasn't treated me well, I've felt very trapped and very fed up about the whole not being able to go anywhere, I''ve not been on here as much as well as I really didn't want to see all the places I was being stopped from visiting. I know everybody is in the same boat but it has affected me adversely to the point where yesterday I just had to get out.
We decided to go for our allowed exercise (walk) in the Peak District where there had just been a recent dusting of snow, the drive over was interesting with nil visibilty in parts and thick snow, I envisaged the scene I wanted to photograph, and indeed 1 mile away everything was covered in snow but the mist was very dense so it would be a challenge, in this image there a little bit of mist at the the very summit, minutes before you couldn't see any of it!
Arriving at this spot I was quite amazed to find that this was the only hill in the area not to be completely covered in snow, not even a flake! also the mist was that bad you could hardly make the hill out, just so glad to be out again with the camera I decided to just stand there and wait to see if I got a break in the weather, as you can see, amazingly it happened, looking at the scene it didn't seem that it ever would but amazingly it did! so pleased, a worthwhile journey and the best image I've got from this location to date, it really didn't last long either with the clag coming back in shortly afterwards and hardly lifting again all day, enjoyed the walk, and came back with an image, happy camper, so good for the soul. Hardly saw anyone else all day, I'm gonna continue to pick quiet locations to travel to for a walk and hopefully some photography, all it needs is common sense.
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I'm going to have a bit of a rant, sorry but I do want to get this off my chest, After hearing what we in the UK are 'allowed' and 'not allowed' to do this week, this untouched from the archive image seemed like a timely upload as we appear to be banned from entering Wales.
While being banned from entering Wales I think is a good thing in the respect of we don't need to be spreading Covid 19 I'm horrified to hear that our absolute clown of a Prime Minister has allowed pretty much free travel all around England, Places along the Coast and also my beloved Lake District stand to be absolutely hammered by visitors at the worst possible time, these people in tiny places have been essentially cut off from non essential visitors and have contained the Covid 19 threat as best they can, only to be (for me) completely let down by our clueless London based Government who seem to think that the average English Citizen has suddenly inherited a load of common sense (despite all the brazen idiots already having tried to get into the lake district against repeated advice) These people stand to lose loved ones, businesses may never reopen and the Lkae District as we know it could very well take a LONG time to return to normal. If anyone reading this is considering visiting these places now Boris has said you can I'm begging you PLEASE DO NOT GO! it will still be there for you when it is all over as long as you treat it with respect NOW.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team along with many others have also pleaded with people to use common sense and not visit, which they shouldn't have been put in that position to do in the first place. I never do this kind of thing on here but if I can get through to just one person and stop them going then it will have been worthwhile... please forward the message to anyone you know intending to go.
Anyway back to this image...
A lot of you will know this spot well but for those who don't it's Penmon Point on Anglesey, North Wales, at this level of tide you can get this lovely path leading towards the lighthouse and rock pools filled with sea critters and seaweed, the island to the right is Puffin Island, when this is all over this area will be one I can't wait to get back to again.
Until then let's all stay safe and use our common sense :-)
This was our last day in the highlands back in February and we were on our way home, no stops had been planned but coiming across this scene at Loch Duich it would have been a hard job to just pass it by! given some of the weather we had had to find the Loch so completely still and idyllic was a great bit of luck. I think we ended up stopping another 2 or 3 times after this as well, such were the stunning conditions on this morning.
Taken as an 8 shot handheld vertical panorarma.
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A shot from back in Feb and a great morning down in Glen Etive, the sunrise had been lacklustre in colour but as always here natures curious dramatics can often make up for the lack of any golden lighting.
The last time I was at this spot I got eaten alive by the dreaded Scottish Midges, anyone who has ever encountered these things will testift as to just how horrific they are, although I came away with a few images they weren't anything I've ever shared as I wasn't 100% happy with them, no doubt a consequence of rushing more than I normally would due to being bitten and pestered to death by the 'Scottish Summer Plague'.
This time of year you don't have that crap to put up with though and time can be taken to look around and enjoy the surroundings, the difference being that I came away with about 3 or 4 images I really like from around here, as opposed to zero in Summer.
This is shot looking down the River Etive towards Stob Dubh which seems to glowing within it it's own little snowy micro climate as a storm cloud passes by overhead.
A very early morning shoot at Llandudno and it's splendid Victorian Pier, after spending a few hours asleep in the car (Top tip - don't ever try sleeping in an Abarth 595) following shooting Comet Neowise on Angelsey the previous evening.
The mornings sunrise here wasn't bad at all but the light was never going to last very long due to the massive bank of clouds just above the horiizon, I decided to do a long exposure here as although the clouds were moving very slowly, there in theory should be plenty of cloud movement across the scene with a heavily filtered setup vastly reducing the light, giving me a nice long exposure time, which was the case.
I though about removing the wind turbine in the distance from the image but have left them in as I think they contrast well in the very brightest part of the image, and to be honest I don't really mind them.
The Pier gets extremely busy during the day with 100's of people on it at any one time, so it was great to see it so peaceful and eerily deserted.
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Explore #1 13/08/2020
A few weeks ago I'd indentified just one evening where I had some free time to get out and see Comet Neowise. Since it wasn't going to be around again for another 6,766 years I though I'd better make the effort... and the thought of it being visible to the naked eye was far too much of a temptation to pass by.
Thankfully (and unusually) the weather was absolutely perfect for the evening I'd picked with very little cloud lingering around and thus millions of stars were clearly visible to the naked eye, arrivng well after dark was the hard part as not only was I struggling to see the comet I couldn't really see where I was going either without shining a really bright torch around and potentially ruining anyone elses shots that may be around although I couldn't make anyone out..
My arrival time coincided with the tide going back out so that was a huge help knowing I wasn't going to get cut off on the rocks I was now scrambling across in the dark to find a foreground.. once I'd got settled my eyes had adjusted to the dark and the Comet could clearly be seen, absolutely awesome to witness I just stood on watched on for a while taking it all in, after all it was the only time I'd ever get to see it..
This was taken a 0115AM, I finally settled on a 15 second exposure at f/2.8 and a little bit of lighting for the foreground rocks, it's really not often I do shooting at night and Astro work but I really enjoyed it, something very surreal about being stood in the sea at 0130 AM in Wellies shooting and watching a subject that is 64 million miles away. Not something you get to do everyday. And amazingly, no mishaps !
Have a zoom around at all the stars, sent my eyes crazy looking up at them all, due to light pollution you never get to see anything like this where I live.
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Following on from the last image in exactly the same location, albeit 5 months apart and totally different conditions and compostion..
A trip up to the Lake to visit the Lakes Distillery with Mike (Muddy Boots) and to collect their first release of their single malt... it would have been rude though not to get up at 3am and take in a sunrise en route !
We started off low down on Rydal Water after me remarking (stupidly) how calm it was whilst driving through Kendal at 0430, not a slight hint of wind... upon arrival at the waterside though it was obvious that the wind, and very heavy cloud would ruin any potential shots at the planned location so without even getting the camera out it was off to this spot instead to hedge our bets and see what we could get from higher up.
It was certainly breaking up cloud wise as we arrived up here, and strangely far less wind despite being a lot higher up.
In a contrast to the previous image, I've gone a lot wider, and a lot slower as there was some great contrasty cloud to play with and add drama, plus the glow of the sun just beggining to rear it's head over the distant peaks.
A great use of a morning, we didn't see another soul either.
The contrast in this scene was more than a lot to deal with, so I've used 2 images, mainly to keep the ferns in the scene as still as possible as they were catching a breeze - i don't like to bring up shadows at all, and to get that sky right with the long exposure. Shot directly after each other to keep the sun alignment.
I was trying to think of a title for this image and this Pink Floyd song title popped into my head, fitting it perfectly due to the amount of fiddling about with the settings to correctly expose the brightest area...
Nikon D850
Nikon 24-120 f/4
Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
Nisi V6 System
NiSi 100mm 10 stop filter
NiSi 4 stop medium gnd
1S064
f/13
240 seconds - sky
1.6 seconds - land
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One of my favourite shots from Skye and a totally unplanned image as far as location goes.
The scene here you could see happening with the mountain coming in and out of view for a few momemts with the low cloud moving left to right constantly changing the scene, eventually the mountain appeared and all the cloud clinging to the sides of the mountains below made for a fabulous scene which I was ready set up to shoot, using the lone cottage for a sense of scale...
One of those special moments you cannot plan, but you can anticipate what you want from it, all you have to do is set up and wait.
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This was a new location for me and one I really liked as there were lots of compostions, all as rugged and other worldly as each other
Spikes were needed to get down to here as the ground had frozen solid and was trecherous in parts, once down onto the beach though it was fine, we were greeted with the most incredible light along this exact section, of course this immediately died the minute we got set up as is usually the way! then the rain set in again so I just set up, covered the camera, and went for a wander to check out other spots in the area.
Later, we got quite a long time where the rain had stopped
and once again the gorgeous light that had lit up the scene broke through, picking out all the detail in the rocks and weeds.
I finished up here by shooting some scenes with the sea coming crashing in not far away, and as was the case on numerous days, ended up with my boots full of seawater, which as you can imagine wasn't the warmest sensation in the world!!
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For me quite simply one of, if not the most stunning places I have visited so far, Vestrahorn.
A huge difference to the last time I was here where you couldn't see the tops of the mountains and it was too rough to get up by the coastal section, today was the total reverse with the dunes being unshootable due to extreme winds howling around and blowing the black sand round everywhere, so the coast was actually a far more sheltered option.
One of my favourites from the mornings shoot at sunrise, not long after I'd fallen and ended up on my backside on the rocks... unhurt but covered in mud and sand..
This shot was a case of getting to a shutter speed that I liked and just waiting for the right time, and the right wave to give me what I was try to achieve.
NiSi V6
NiSi 100mm 3 stop filter
NiSi 100mm 2 stop Medium GND filter
Fotopro T74-C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
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Another hard drive find taken the same day as the last shot (which incidentally is my Birthday) A well shot location in Yorkshire but that doesn't put me off as every visit is potentially different. Cauldron Falls or West Burton Falls if you prefer... flows through a particularly gorgeous bit of rocky woodland.
Despite it being the middle of Summer, the weather had been extremely wet a few days prior to this (OK so that's not that unusual for the UK..) I decided to stop off here to see if there was some good flow in the falls and wasn't dissapointed, there was also some luscious colour in the foliage around the falls reminscent more of Spring than Summer but I wasn't complaining. Not long after I got a couple of shots here it poured down yet again and another dash back to the car was needed.
A local hostelry may have provided a place to dry off and 'refuel' :-)
74C tripod
Fotopro LGNikon D810
Nikon 16-35 f/4 @ 16mm
Fotopro T--9R ballhead
NiSi 100mm Landscape Cpl
Nisi 100mm 3 stop ND
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I seem to have a stack of images from this location so every now and again i I'll have another look through and pick just one or 2 to process so I'm not looking at similar things over and over again.
This one caught my eye as the Diamond like Iceberg was completely isolated from the wash of the ocean and is in pretty much 100% contrast to the black sand beach, it's 2 other comrades have yet to make it to the beach and are seen bathing in equal measures of sea and sunlight.
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Last week I was looking through flickr and saw a great shot of this mountain taken by one of my contacts, it spurred me on to go back to my files and see what I'd got from here, and from this trip.
Lómagnúpur Mountain stands at 688ft high, a Volcanic beast that seemingly just rises up out of nothing to form this awe inspiring sight that dominates the whole area.
We were quite lucky with this shot as it can be nororiously hard to photograph with the top often being covered in cloud or other conditions that don't lend themself to landscape photography. At the end of this day we were driving past and the conditions were basically perfect, no low cloud and the plenty of water in the pool at the fore that was perfectly still allowing for a full reflection, we ended up shooting here for about an hour in the end up until, and through sunset.
This is a super wide take on it, shot at 14mm and a somewhat eye watering 515 seconds (over 8 minutes) exposure.
With there not being much wind about I wanted a long exposure to create movement in the sky to add to the dramatic feel of the image, I don't really like the Long Exposure calculators you get on apps, too often I find they can be quite far out, it was a case of taking one image, checking the histogram and seeing how much I had left to play with on the right hand side and then coming up with a time, plus adding further time on for the dwindling light at sunset. The histogram off this shot is pretty much stretched left to right, black to white, giving me everything I needed plus the extremely long time gives plenty of sky movement.
Just as well it worked out really as you will only get 1 or 2 chances at it due to the long duration and the light dying off.
Unplanned shoots can sometimes throw some magic your way, as did this, what a great end to a day.
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Following on from yesterdays upload I've been going through my Iceland images, seeing that is where I should be right now..
Really surprised at how many images I've managed to find that hadn't been touched, including this one taken not long after sunrise at Vestrahorn, Stokksnes.
A very different image to the last one, cropping in lot tighter into the mountain, giving a better view of the mountain to the rear often called 'Batman Mountain' with the glowing morning clouds reflecting into the wet sands.
If I can't be there, this is the next best thing at the moment.
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A shot from the far North East of Iceland, it's freezing cold and about 2 in the morning, the Aurora has decided to come out to play and deprive me of sleep this night, not that I'm complaining, I love a good sleep but not if this is going on outside!!
It was out for a couple of hours weaving around over the mountains, and twirling about in unfathomable patterns in the sky.
This is a series of stacked images at the same settings to give the star trail effect, along with the Aurora as I hadn't really got anything like this on this trip and it was out for so long it gave a more than ample chance to try different things.
The little hut, which made a great foreground subject, is in fact owned by the farm we were staying on. It's used for smoking Trout they catch in the river (that is just out of sight), after a nice lie in in the morning, we got to eat the freshly smoked Trout at Breakfast, which was fantastic!
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