Nice work Craig! It was worth the trip!
No 1 Nice Shot, wonder how you processed, gives me a bit of a mild HDR feeling...? Its an excellent vista! love the patches of light where the sun brushes the snowcapped peaks and how it highlights the green fields in the valley below. Great contrast between the snow and the green of the valleys. the exposure just getting a bit naughty on the LH side, just about under control. Like the contours of the edge of the hillside in the foreground made more prominent by the snow. Nice Work... i think i would pull in a tiny bit of grad at an angle on the LH side to cool off that exposure.
No 2 Another nice shot, love those snowcapped peaks featuring on the horizon, nice light clipping them too.....Great! The rivers a great lead in as is strong RH diagonal of the hillside. Lovely movement in the water shutter speed very good. Really nice colour in the bracken on the hillside versus the nearly mono of the mountains and rocks. Nice foreground interest and texture in the rock which is sharp. Only niggle (and only as i try and avoid it in my shots, but you cant always
) is the branches on the LH and RH side of the frame. Then its shakespearean soliloquies "To clone or not to clone, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the branches"......... I never win when i ask this to myself.... I hate to clone stuff out and i dont like these "objects" that worry your eye... You cant win and i can never answer that question myself.
Any how its just nit picking really!
No 3 Belting Sky! I love the colours in the sky really nice, Nice dark division created by the grasses in the lower third of the frame. Like the lone tree, stood there fighting the elements. Its a great scene. A bit 50:50 but it holds up well here as the sky and the mountains are well balanced off each other, both equally deserving.
No 4 Something i have never got round to doing, and you picked a great spot for it! Love the backdrop Glad you got a nice clear night for that one, works really well. I wonder what the very faint line is running from the peak on the LH side diagonally to the right, an aircraft i guess. Its a really nice clear shot, and its your backdrop that really makes it stand out. I must say you have really done the star trails justice, Well Done nicely shot. (Note to self must do this soon).
No 5 Thats a corker, sky is beautiful, what lovely gradients. Really nice patchwork of snowy fields with scattered dwellings. The houses give a great sense of scale to the whole thing. Thats the dead right diagonal Right to Left for a excellent lead in, and a brush of colour in the reeds and grasses in the foreground. Mountains and fells look stunning in the snow! Well shot, Nice exposure (even for a Canon
).
No 6 Gives a great impression of the pure mass of Blencathra and the area, weather fronts moving in from the right, really nice Pano view... theres something an snow and mountains almost synonymous. Last of the light just clipping off the peaks.
No 7 Very Nice! very nice foreground love the frozen grasses, nice and sharp, great reflections of the fells and the sky in the water, like the distant peak just poking up through the saddle on the right. Streaming clouds whats not to like.
Difficult to pick a clear winner... I'm with Dave here 1, 4, 5, and 7.
Lovely work, you certainly had the weather if not always the light, not a wasted trip!
Newlands Valley by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Ashness Bridge by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Lake District Snow Sunset by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Castlerigg Star Trails by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Snowy Sunset Derwent Fells by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Blencathra and Tewet Tarn by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
Derwent Dawn B & W by Craig Hollis, on Flickr
