A photo from last week in the Lake district of North West England
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@Nick Passantino: Thanks Nick....The Lake District is one of the most beautiful places in the world and I was really pleased that I overcame my laziness and got up in time before dawn to take this photo.
@Japanalia: Hi Gabriela....yes it's a truly beautiful and dramatic area of the country. Tomorrow's photo is already posted up ready but I'm only too willing to do requests so if you like I'll put up some more from this part of the world from tuesday onwards for a few days :-)
@Lorraine: I'm rather late to the party I'm afraid as this area has been inspiring poets and painters for hundreds of years already but thanks for the lovely compliment!
@Ana Lúcia: Thanks Ana.....I'm really pleased you liked it. I know this kind of photo can be seen as a bit cliched but I guess there's a reason this has been done so often as it was irrisistible to me at least!
@hugo poon: Thanks very much Hugo.....its clichéd I know, but it was a scene that was just asking to be photographed and there I was camera and tripod in hand. The one thing I didn't think about was that the branches of the tree waving in the wind would be blurred at such a slow shutter speed (yet another lesson in how to use a camera I guess :-)
I was so lucky to get this shot at all though as there had been a very big storm the previous day with high winds and driving rain.
@Russ Devan: Thanks Russ!.....the light was very gentle. Winter sunrises can be very subtle affairs with the pink glow arriving very slowly but disappearing much more quickly....I'm glad you liked it!
@Marek Kulikowski: Thanks very much Marek!
@MOHAMMAD: Thanks Mohammad!
@tom: Thanks tom.....I had mixed feelings about the fence as it's been done so often but it was too good as a lead-in line to ignore :-)
@GJC: Thanks GJC.....you're right about the fence and tree branches being essential to the image although it does mean that the photo becomes something of a cliché. I haven't really solve that particular dilemna yet :-)
@amy: Thanks very much Amy!
@Ralf Kesper: Thanks Ralf....from a real master of landscape photography that's a great compliment!
@Barbara: Cheers Barbara....thanks very much!
@danthro: Thanks danthro!.....as far as I could see there was no actual flooding but all the lakes looked really full and the local waterfall (Lodore Falls) was a raging torrent!
NIKON D40
1/8 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
15 mm (35mm equiv.)