when someone asked me if i would like to accompany them on a trip to pick something up from Penrith this weekend i jumped at the chance to go with them!

( penrith = lake district = very popular photographers destination! )

i only had like, 2 hours before we had to head home but in that i jumped the soonest bus out to Pooley Bridge and had about half an hour shooting the lake at the eastern point of Ullswater.

...sadly i was not to be blessed with any interesting lighting or weather conditions, in fact it was just constant grey drizzle.. so i had to try hard with the basics, composition and technical accuracy, to get anything half decent did i manage?


i metered off the background so the tree in the foreground has to be adjusted in PS via levels to stop its being just a silhuette, i think i got it about right...

i also really wanted to try and get the whole image as sharp as possible so i put the aperture up to 22 which slowed the shutter speed down to 1"3 seconds causing the blur in the water as the rain hit off the surface of the lake.

maybe this won't be very popular because its not, well, its not exactly a very pretty landscape. i could have added warm tones, boosted those red leaves, but then it wouldn't have been November would it?


im also going to enter this in *Solkku's Gloomy Nature competition , as drizzle, dead leaves, bare trees and an empty lake seem pretty darn gloomy to me...
i doubt it will even come close to winning but you should definatly check the competition out! it looks like alot of fun

Ullswater. Canon 350d. 18mm lens. 1"3 secs @ 22.


_{as part of my challenge to try and capture the landscape month by month, december next i guess... wish me luck!!}

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