Parton Shore 27/28-11-2007

[vulcan2912]

Hi guys

18 days off,crap weather and suffering from itchy shutter finger.
This led me to going out when the conditions for photography were poor to say the least.It was a dull miserable day with no light and total cloud cover.
I decided to take a few pictures just so I could tell myself I'd at least tried.
The pleasing thing is that when I got them on the computer and had a play with them I actually quite liked one or two of them.It just goes to show that it doesn't matter how poor the weather is there's always a chance you might come back with something that you like.
A few pics-a mixture of normal,mono and HDR.




























The next day brought even worse weather with constant rain.I decided to get stuck into the decorating but noticed towards the end of the afternoon that the sun had made an appearance.It was a quick down tools(3.30 pm by this time),chucked the camera gear in the car and back off to Parton.The light was spectacular on the way but unfortunatly the sun dropped behind the clouds just as I arrived.Combine this with the strong winds and light drizzle and things weren't quite as good as I had hoped for.
I decided to take a few pics but didn't stay long-the light had totally gone and it was starting to get pretty dark.

A couple of pics.Photomatix-you either love it or hate it.Me,I absolutly love it.











Cheers
Gary

[buttkicker]

A mixed bag with some of these Gary
the first few I am not keen on... however this one really works well


the couple at the bottom also have some interesting rock formations, although I would like to see the foreground a bit lighter, and also done mono

wish you would put numbers on em.. so its easier to pick them out
cheers
Uncle Chris

[Chris Gurney]

Love the effect of the misty water on the rocks, a few of them are a bit dark but i guess that cant be helped given the crap weather lately.

[vulcan2912]

Hi guys

Thanks for the comments.The set has actually gone down better than I expected on another certain forum.

I've even had quite a few accepted for stock which is always a good indicator if they are ok or not.Anything that's not 100% spot on gets binned by them guys right away.

Cheers
Gary

[tallyho]

Gary,

Really like them mate. we had a walk by the railway line from salterbeck to Harrington on Saturday and the weather was the same. It did spring to mind though that this is typical of West Cumbria in Autumn/winter and the question actually came to mind, "how could this be captured?" You've done a spectacular job!

Karl