Winter Sun on The Snowfield

by davidstorm

Arctic Sheffield today on the hills above Redmires Reservoir.

Although the sun was out it was snowing and the wind was whipping the lying snow across the landscape. BTW, this is not HDR.

K-5IIs, DA 16-45, Tripod, Polariser, ND Grad
Uploaded10/03/2013 - 21:31
CategoryLandscape / Travel
Shutter Speed1/100
Aperturef/14
LensN/A
ISO100
Focal Length16mm

Bobbinalorry
Posted 10/03/2013 - 21:48 Link
Absoloootly bloody STUNNING!!
Best Regards, Larry.

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sandinista
Posted 10/03/2013 - 22:46 Link
Bobbinalorry wrote:
Absoloootly bloody STUNNING!!

I concur
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GIULIO57
Posted 11/03/2013 - 06:41 Link
Terrific!!!!A desert of ICE
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bwlchmawr
Posted 11/03/2013 - 07:37 Link
Such a hard picture to get right...you've manged it peffectly, David.
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AndrewA
Posted 11/03/2013 - 08:00 Link
Absolutely nailed it!
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tyronet2000
Posted 11/03/2013 - 08:13 Link
You've made the ordinary extraordinary David, super capture
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Blaze
Posted 11/03/2013 - 08:21 Link
That is absolutely brilliant, David ! Gorgeous colours too.
duncanM
Posted 11/03/2013 - 10:50 Link
It's all been said above- superb picture indeed
josiahk
Posted 11/03/2013 - 10:59 Link
Very, very nice.
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autumnlight
Posted 11/03/2013 - 14:21 Link
Cracking shot, full of atmosphere.
focus
Posted 11/03/2013 - 14:41 Link
Excellent capture! - mary.
bjolester
Posted 11/03/2013 - 15:25 Link
Superb!

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darkskies
Posted 11/03/2013 - 16:49 Link
Yum yum!
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generator
Posted 11/03/2013 - 17:05 Link
its a very good photo dave but i got to ask ? where the sun is is your lens scratched as if you look at this photo large it does look like the lens is scratched it could be the sun shine so if it is iam very sorry still a good photo
Thanks Richard
davidstorm
Posted 11/03/2013 - 18:24 Link
generator wrote:
its a very good photo dave but i got to ask ? where the sun is is your lens scratched as if you look at this photo large it does look like the lens is scratched it could be the sun shine so if it is iam very sorry still a good photo

Richard - it is SNOW!!!! The Snow was being blown across by gale force winds, this is what you can see. The weather up there yesterday was pretty Arctic - you had to be there to understand what it was like.

The other images I uploaded yesterday were all with the same lens and the same camera - no scratches!! Nuri also PM'd me about this I did refer to this in the photo description, but maybe I wasn't clear enough about the effect it had on the picture.

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Edited by davidstorm: 11/03/2013 - 18:25
senn
Posted 11/03/2013 - 19:44 Link
davidstorm wrote:
generator wrote:
its a very good photo dave but i got to ask ? where the sun is is your lens scratched as if you look at this photo large it does look like the lens is scratched it could be the sun shine so if it is iam very sorry still a good photo

Richard - it is SNOW!!!! The Snow was being blown across by gale force winds, this is what you can see. The weather up there yesterday was pretty Arctic - you had to be there to understand what it was like.

The other images I uploaded yesterday were all with the same lens and the same camera - no scratches!! Nuri also PM'd me about this I did refer to this in the photo description, but maybe I wasn't clear enough about the effect it had on the picture.

Cheers
David

As I'm mentioned, here is my reaction ..

it's OK, David, .. as you put it so well in your PM "it looks odd"; .. but your explanation sounds convincing enough, .. and I stick to it without reserve; .. sorry about my temporary "scepticism"; ..and I maintain that this is a great capture on many respects ..

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Edited by senn: 11/03/2013 - 19:50
davidstorm
Posted 11/03/2013 - 19:57 Link
If you look to the centre left of the image, just below the line of the horizon where the white of the foreground meets the darker background, you can see the snow blowing up. The same is happening in front of the sun - you cannot see it on the rest of the sky because it is not being illuminated. Believe me, I spent several minutes trying to capture this effect and I know the conditions I was working with! To say it was cold is an understatement, my fingers got so cold I could not press the shutter button.

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pauljay
Posted 12/03/2013 - 10:49 Link
Larry put it so delicately that I have to agree!
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