The clear cloudless sky imo helps on this occasion. Had the sky been more "dramatic" with clouds they probably would have been an eye-magnet drawing the eyes away from the lone fisherman on the rocks.
Thanks. I used Nik plugins to process these images, my standard forest preset is Foliage (to enhance greens) and Glamour Glow (to add this soft dreamy feel) in Color Efex Pro. In some images foliage preset is casting too much yellow but I haven't had time to redo these images. Anyway, I play artistic license here, it's not documentary :D
Today, Norma and I headed over to Preston with our bicycles do do something called the Preston Guild Wheel ride - about 22 miles along tracks with a little bit of road.
It was a great ride (I only fell off once) and we stopped for lunch half way around.
I took my Fuji X100VI and snapped a few on the way - so here's some. SOOC and only resized to keep the upload/download speed efficient.
Yep, in fact, I'd go as far as saying that for photography, I prefer "bad" weather when out in the mountains. In this particular instance, I wanted to show my mum how amazing the mountains in The Lake District are and, for the most part, she couldn't even see them, but that's how it goes in The Lake District. We had a nice day out nonetheless and we'll try again at some point in the future.
When I started reading "The first 450m..." I thought you were going to paraphrase Douglas Adams, i.e. "The first 450m were the worst, then the next 450m, they were the worst also. The third 450m..."
That's a formidable looking mountain range and I'm sure your ridge walk was well worth suffering mobility issues the next day.
Sounds like my kind of location, although I don't think I could manage the pace these days.