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Last night I noticed some beautifully lit clouds from the kitchen window.
I grabbed the 5D (which happened to have the 70-200mm lens fitted), and
walked up the drive. I knew the gorgeous light would probably last only a
few minutes, so there was no time to find the tripod. About 40 metres from
our gate there is a defunct railway bridge which makes a good viewpoint. So
this is one of 10 or so quite interesting shots I took, ISO400, 70mm 1/250
sec. at F/10 (I suspect my 24-105mm has more depth of field at 70mm?).
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It looked so beautiful against the night sky, though I found focussing
tricky in such low light.
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When I got to the top, I thought I’d left it too late, and that the soft
evening sun was going to remain behind heavy, dark clouds. Then it
miraculously emerged for perhaps just two minutes. Near horizontal shafts of
warm, beautiful light, like the of a beam of light coming from a lighthouse,
lit up the cairn. A special, strangely exciting, photographic moment.
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This evening, 15th April, on the way home from Powfoot.Perhaps the weirdest landscape I’ve ever taken…a strange juxstaposition of
rolling field, and almost exotic domestic architecture. And, of course, you
can’t see it, but there is also a crow sitting on the wire next the
telegraph pole. It reminds me of an illustration from a children’s book.
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Having a loch at the bottom of our garden, allows you to peep out the window, see the light is nice, and grab the camera and run. So much easier than sitting in a camper van for days (which I’ve never done!), by the side of a loch up the Highlands, waiting for beautiful light.
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