A lone tree on the edge of Buttermere Lake in Cumbria.
Photographed recently during a stormy day full of driving rain in the Lake District National Park in the company of John Leech (see AM3 link below) and our friend Renato Pedrosa who was visiting from Brasil.
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@omid: Thanks Omid!
@Gérard Beullac: Thanks Gérard!....as a long exposure it was a difficult photo to take as it was very windy (you can see it most in the movement of the reeds at the edge of the water) and the rain was travelling horizontally. Keeping the lens free of rain drops was a problem as you can imagine!
@Richard: Thanks Richard. Apart from the square crop and b&w conversion it's straight out of the camera. As with a lot of photography it's sometimes just a question of being there at the right time. The heavy rain (and resulting misty light) really helped the mood of the image!
@Frida: Thanks Frida!
@Ian Smith: Thanks Ian....I've got a 10 second vertical version of this shot which I haven't processed yet where the tops of the branches of the tree are all blurred by the wind moving them.
@bahman parandin: Thanks bahman!
@Dhaval: Thanks Dhaval. Regarding the square format of the photo: the central portion of the viewfinder of my D700 has square grid lines and I use those to compose the image which I later crop to that same square format in post processing.
NIKON D700
5 seconds
F/11.0
ISO 200
30 mm (35mm equiv.)