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February 2010 Blog Entries
22 February 2010
Ever the optimist
With the weather not playing game for a planned trip to shoot landscapes in the Peak District last week, I decided to embrace the unfortunate conditions and make the most of them instead of curse them. Thick fog wrapped itself round my village and the nearby town, so I headed into the woods and local park to capture this ‘bad’ weather to shoot some eerie, claustrophobic images that are a change from the usual landscape views I take. If anything, they made a change to the snow landscapes that I and most other photographers seemed to have been shooting since Christmas! The local park was down to 50 yards in visibility and the surrounding trees were ideal to shoot as they were the only things looming out of the fog. They gave an ideal sense of depth as they slowly disappeared into the fog in the background and the poor visibility hid any distracting objects that are normally seen on a clear, bright day.
I was after a sense of isolation and fear in the shots of the wood and my son became the model for the day to provide the obligatory mysterious figure in the last image. This is just the type of image one of my photo libraries loves, so I’m glad I decided venture out and just by changing tactics, I was rewarded with an alternative set of interesting pictures.
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