Remember the image I posted yesterday? Yesterday and the day before that is. Well this is the view looking the other way, into the sunshine and the mist.

This is the wide view. I wanted to show the context of the landscape, as this was the scene I saw, and remembered seeing.

And yes to the right you can see the outline of a house – some lucky people live right in the woods, or right on the edge of them I should say.

For this picture I have the woods and that lovely flat pond immediately behind me – yes literally behind me. There was just a narrow path around this side of the pond.

Just enough room for me to squeeze my Manfrotto tripod behind the fence and not completely in the mud!

I am not saying that this is the best picture I have ever taken, just consider it a warm up for the image I will post on Friday of this week.

The main subject of this image is the sunlight through  the mist – always a winning combination. And with this exposure I have deliberately blown out the sky, taking it to white.

Why?

Well why not.

Technically you shouldn’t do that. You should expose for the highlights. That is the rule.

But as I have said before, rules are there to be broken.

The lighting makes sense, with no mist down in the foreground which is near to the pond I posted the pictures of previously. All the misty loveliness that I photographed is over to the right, which is also the way back to Broadstone Cricket Club and the car park where I parked my car and got my massive camera bag out.

A complete contrast from this scene, and only a short walk away.

To add to the glamour of the scene Gravel Hill is a few hundreds behind me from where I took this image – it was that day driving up Gravel Hill that I saw something that needed investigating of to the left, and finally here I was.

And I am glad I did look to the left, and follow it up.

Rick McEvoy Photography

Landscape photographer in Poole

Wednesday 8th February 2017