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* Website Updated Jan 2012 *
'Latest Work' Galleries now added
showing the most recent landscape images.
LANDSCAPES THE UK & BEYOND Slideshow/DVD now available to view.
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ONE MORNING ON SKYE - The Making of a Landscape Image
Darkness is all around me as I step out of the car. I still have the best part of an hours walk through woodland and rugged terrain to reach my intended destination in plenty of time for sunrise.
With a head torch to light up the path in front of me and my 'backup' navigation device occasionally 'beeping' in my pocket to tell me I am on the right track I am finally on my way to a landscape location that I have been planning to capture for the last few of years.
I am some 500 miles from home on the Hebredian Island of Skye. The weather has been pretty poor all week for landscape photography so far, but this has been given as the best day of the week according to local forecasts. Once out of the dark and eerie woodland canopy there is at least a little more light around. Now in the course of the next 15 minutes I experience rainstorms, sleet and even a few flakes of snow.
I finally get up on to the ridge overlooking the 'Old Man of Storr'. 35mph gusts of wind make it difficult to keep my tripod and camera from moving.
Sunrise passes with unspectacular results due to heavy cloud cover, but I know in the ever changing conditions there is always the chance of some decent light if only for a moment. So finding a high point with a rock face at my back gives me and my gear some protection from the elements and the waiting game continues.
Sure enough my patience and determination finally paid off and I got my 'few minutes' of decent early morning light and manage to 'bag' some decent shots before the conditions changed again. Cold, damp and hungry I headed off back on the long walk back to the car with a smile on my face contemplating the 'landscape challenges' that I will face over the coming days.
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Contact Wayne on Facebook
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Look at the new 'Landscape Talks' section to find where I will be appearing in 2012/2013
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Please use the code supplied with the image in the event of an enquiry.
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All pictures are the copyright of the owner. If you are interested in any of my work then please contact me in the first instance at:
wayne@brittlew.fsnet.co.uk
'Latest Work' Galleries now added
showing the most recent landscape images.
LANDSCAPES THE UK & BEYOND Slideshow/DVD now available to view.
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ONE MORNING ON SKYE - The Making of a Landscape Image
Darkness is all around me as I step out of the car. I still have the best part of an hours walk through woodland and rugged terrain to reach my intended destination in plenty of time for sunrise.
With a head torch to light up the path in front of me and my 'backup' navigation device occasionally 'beeping' in my pocket to tell me I am on the right track I am finally on my way to a landscape location that I have been planning to capture for the last few of years.
I am some 500 miles from home on the Hebredian Island of Skye. The weather has been pretty poor all week for landscape photography so far, but this has been given as the best day of the week according to local forecasts. Once out of the dark and eerie woodland canopy there is at least a little more light around. Now in the course of the next 15 minutes I experience rainstorms, sleet and even a few flakes of snow.
I finally get up on to the ridge overlooking the 'Old Man of Storr'. 35mph gusts of wind make it difficult to keep my tripod and camera from moving.
Sunrise passes with unspectacular results due to heavy cloud cover, but I know in the ever changing conditions there is always the chance of some decent light if only for a moment. So finding a high point with a rock face at my back gives me and my gear some protection from the elements and the waiting game continues.
Sure enough my patience and determination finally paid off and I got my 'few minutes' of decent early morning light and manage to 'bag' some decent shots before the conditions changed again. Cold, damp and hungry I headed off back on the long walk back to the car with a smile on my face contemplating the 'landscape challenges' that I will face over the coming days.
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Contact Wayne on Facebook
* * * * * * *
Look at the new 'Landscape Talks' section to find where I will be appearing in 2012/2013
* * * * * * *
Please use the code supplied with the image in the event of an enquiry.
* * * * * *
All pictures are the copyright of the owner. If you are interested in any of my work then please contact me in the first instance at:
wayne@brittlew.fsnet.co.uk