Although an exaggeration, it seems that it's been raining continuously since the middle of last month, here in the UK: not too conducive for outdoor photography. After all, there's only so much bad weather shooting I can tolerate without getting something spectacular.
However, the Met Office weather satellite image looked promising on the display of my iMac at 6:00 am today, but once outside and on my bike I'm forced to shelter from rain.
This turns out to be just a shower, and as the rain cloud moves further along the English Channel it leaves behind broken cloud to the west. I ride on in the gloom of pre-dawn to Hengistbury Head, at the eastern end of the Dorset coast, primarily to photograph any progress being made with the sea defences (last post), but it being a Saturday there's little activity.
Eventually the sky clears, and although a brisk, cold wind continues blowing - it never seems to stop, these days - the clouds part for long enough to allow dramatic light to fall on the windswept coast (image), but it doesn't last long before the next weather front comes in off the Atlantic, taking the light with it.
At this time of year good light is often fleeting, and it's down to good fortune (and being prepared) to shoot any worthwhile landscape images. But then it always is.
24-70 f/2.8 EX-DG Sigma lens. 1/320 second at f/11. -0.67 EV. ISO 400.
© 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment