Seasonal colouring, none can miss these red shoes. Well spotted!
Seasonal colouring, none can miss these red shoes. Well spotted!
These are my favorites, I like first for its background but the water seems to come out of nowhere. In second eye can follow water bit more, so I prefer second shot bit more.
Love low sun illuminating clouds from below.
Solstice is happy day: today we have day length of 6 hours 3 minutes and with constant cloudiness it seems even shorter, but from today on it can get only better, as there will be more light and opprtunities to shoot outside.
Thanks but I'm gonna have to give him a miss too.
Woodland. I followed David's cropping advice for a similar photo.
Actually, a cropped version also looks very fine.
David
Black Brook to Heapey Moor In Miserable Conditions
Looking back to White Coppice
At this point I'd just left the safety of the path through the old quarry via that rocky ledge on the right and was now picking my way along the river itself.
The Tree
I know I'm getting somewhere when this tree emerges from the bank. Now is this the first tree or the second? As you can see, the bit of a path on the left sort of runs out here, so the options are crossing the brook to the other side or scrambling up the steep bank.
These two for me. After picking them out I noticed they're both square format.
Woodland. I followed David's cropping advice for a similar photo.
Wow, that's lovely.
Woodland. I followed David's cropping advice for a similar photo.
That's a great picture, lovely tones and atmosphere.
Solstice
Sunset yesterday before the longest night. Happy Solstice everyone!
This is nice, although it feels like the shadows could benefit from being selectively raised a bit. That said, it's tricky to get that sort of thing just right without the gloomier parts of the image looking a bit milky.
Our first snow.
It snowed in the Apennines for the first time this year. It was still crispy, when my wife and I took a walk in the mid Apennines. It was an incredibly clear day. Just some snaps.
PS I have started a Best of 2024 Thread, look forward to seeing your greatest hits of 2024
What a lovely location and great conditions.
The same place exactly one year on
Starting with Dec 2023 at Stegmoosalm
This is the bench at the bottom of the "Christmas pudding" rock. The swirling wind curves out a deep "trench" in the snow around the perimeter of the rock
The fence here seems to be asking for a simplified almost B&W treatment.
The only little splashes of colour are from the bokeh of the bright snow cystals.
The Stegmoosalm mountain hut at 1450m above sea level
One year later in December 2024
it's looking very similar, but it's those little changes that make it interesting to go back and visit again ,... and again :-)My sister appearing over the ridge as the sun drives the mist away
That fence again, this time a bit softer
The "Christmas pudding" (again) this time from the side, in 16x9 format, enjoying the sunshine with the misty mounatins in the background
and to finish off, the distant rumblings of a little avalanche
All photos I've posted before, but perhaps interesting to compare
Please do not edit these images
A fantastic location, definitely worth the revisit. I'm quite envious of all these wonderful snow pictures (both yours and Nigel's). Here in Mordor Lancashire, we've been experiencing a fine selection of drizzle and gale force winds for the past few weeks. It's really not got quite the same wintry charm ;-)
@Woodsider79 has written:Solstice
Sunset yesterday before the longest night. Happy Solstice everyone!
This is nice, although it feels like the shadows could benefit from being selectively raised a bit. That said, it's tricky to get that sort of thing just right without the gloomier parts of the image looking a bit milky.
I already raised it as much as I dare! 😁
Woodland. I followed David's cropping advice for a similar photo.
That's gorgeous. The puddles make a huge difference to the overall balance.
Good catch.
Our first snow.
It snowed in the Apennines for the first time this year. It was still crispy, when my wife and I took a walk in the mid Apennines. It was an incredibly clear day. Just some snaps.
PS I have started a Best of 2024 Thread, look forward to seeing your greatest hits of 2024
Incredible scenes, this is my pick.
Black Brook to Heapey Moor In Miserable Conditions
The weather here in northern England has been pretty miserable over the last week, lots of wind, rain and very, very dull light. I did manage to get out during a brief period of calm and decided to have a wander around White Coppice, a local spot that it seems I haven't visited in ages due to spending my free time galavanting around the Anglezarke woods to capture what I could of the autumn colours.
On this particular trip, I was faced with a choice of taking the regular path up to the moors, or following Black Brook. The former is something of a dull slog, with what views there are hidden behind you, but it's a reliable and simple route that's typically not too muddy, whereas the latter is a narrow river gorge, with a lot more interesting details, but it requires a fair bit of scrambling if you don't want to leave the gorge and use the path that runs alongside it. Its main disadvantage is the scrambling is mostly over slimy black rocks which offer less traction than the surface of a teflon coated frying pan.
Of course I chose the latter, but hadn't mentally prepared myself for just how slippy it would be, so it took the best part of two hours carefully negotiating the slippery surface to reach the point where the gorge opens out into a wider valley where I would leave the brook and head up onto the moors (albeit briefly).
I didn't want to be bogged down with heavy cameras or a tripod, so the camera of choice for this trip was the little Fuji X-T50 (I did consider the OM1, but plumped for the better IQ of the Fuji over the ruggedness of the OM, although if rain had been expected, the OM would have been my pick). I did consider just bringing this along with the 27mm Fuji lens, which is a combination tiny enough to fit in my jacket pocket, but I didn't want to be stuck with just a 40mm equivalent, so my bag of primes came along to mostly get in the way while scrambling over the rocks, although I did start getting out a variety of lenses other than the 27mm once I'd left the confines of the gorge. I have no filters that fit the Fuji primes, so there's no CPL action going on here, which is probably just as well given how horrendously dull the light was on this day. I even had to bump up the ISO to the 2nd gain point (640) more than a few times, but all of the images shown here were taken at base ISO.
All images were taken hand held and processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23, with the files nobbled using EXIFTool to look like X-T5 so that my current version of C1P doesn't turn its nose up at them.
Looking back to White Coppice
At this point I'd just left the safety of the path through the old quarry via that rocky ledge on the right and was now picking my way along the river itself.
The Tree
I know I'm getting somewhere when this tree emerges from the bank. Now is this the first tree or the second? As you can see, the bit of a path on the left sort of runs out here, so the options are crossing the brook to the other side or scrambling up the steep bank.
On The Rocks
This is a little further upstream, just beyond the bit of a path shown on the left of the previous picture where I'm about to cross the stream. It's not particularly wide at this point and I could just about stride across, but I'd be putting my weight forward and my foot down on a surface that may well have a very low coefficient of friction which could lead to implanting my teeth in the rocks on the far side, so I proceeded very carefully and probably looking somewhat arthritically to any casual observers who stumbled across me at the time. I'm sure I used to just stride across this river with very little care only a couple of years ago.
Downstream
Looking downstream towards White Coppice again, having once again crossed the river via some more ultra low friction rocks.
Another set of fine images, despite the bad weather!
Nice to see you (also) visit the same place several times. The weather and different seasons all make it different every time you visit and keep it interesting
@Fireplace33 has written:The same place exactly one year on
Starting with Dec 2023 at Stegmoosalm
Lovely views, especially with sun shining. Avalanches though are warning that this beauty can be lethal.
Yes, the danger of avalanches is real and we have to be careful.
My shot shows just a small one, but they can be much bigger!
On the TV there are warnings about any higher avanlanche situations.
We also have websites that show the daily weather forecast and also the daily avalanche status.
Here are two screen shots from that website from earlier today.
First a high level overview with Austria in the middle
then zooming in to your area, you get more details (Hochkönig for me)
it is colour coded on a scale 1-5: ( or green to black)
-5 is deadly- no body goes out
-4 is almost as deadly - only the really stupid go out
-3 is still "considerable danger", but that doesn't sound so bad as a "4" or a "5", and so more people will go out with a "3" status, especially if it looks good and enticing out there, and that is, of course, where most accidents happen !
-2 moderate
-1 low
There will be more snow tonight so it might look quite different tomorrow!
Woodland. I followed David's cropping advice for a similar photo.
Fantastic image!
looks a bit creepy :-)
@Vahur has written: @Fireplace33 has written:The same place exactly one year on
Starting with Dec 2023 at Stegmoosalm
Lovely views, especially with sun shining. Avalanches though are warning that this beauty can be lethal.
Yes, the danger of avalanches is real and we have to be careful.
My shot shows just a small one, but they can be much bigger!
On the TV there are warnings about any higher avanlanche situations.
We also have websites that show the daily weather forecast and also the daily avalanche status.Here are two screen shots from that website from earlier today.
First a high level overview with Austria in the middle
then zooming in to your area, you get more details (Hochkönig for me)
it is colour coded on a scale 1-5: ( or green to black)
-5 is deadly- no body goes out
-4 is almost as deadly - only the really stupid go out
-3 is still "considerable danger", but that doesn't sound so bad as a "4" or a "5", and so more people will go out with a "3" status, especially if it looks good and enticing out there, and that is, of course, where most accidents happen !
-2 moderate
-1 lowThere will be more snow tonight so it might look quite different tomorrow!
Interesting. Not a day for skiing in Chamonix!
There is something similar for Scotland. We're expecting one of the mildest Christmases on record 😕 But at least travel to Elgin next weekend may be without hassle.
www.sais.gov.uk/