This collection of images were taken on a short break in the west country during September. The weather as is usual in the United Kingdom was variable. Indeed, on that break, we encountered warm sun, as well as torrential rain, a hailstorm and buffeting winds. The upside to this was that the cloud formations were absolutely incredible and on my black and whites only needed some tweaking in Curves to bring out their majesty and in some instances their threat of storms.
The first photograph is of a tree I encountered in a field on our way to the coast. I love the symmetry of its canopy and the sky above it was boiling and growling – a precedent of a heavy rainstorm which followed. The sky was enhanced in post-production to add to the drama.
The next two images were taken in Weston-Super-Mare as MrsM and I spent the best part of a day walking through the town and along the seafront. The weather was very changeable with blocks of sunlight travelling quickly through the landscape as in the photograph “Low Tide” followed by ominous storm clouds that came in across the Bristol Channel and over the town heading inland, as can be seen in “Waiting for the Storm”. Immediately after this image was taken heavy rain lashed down followed by a hail storm. We took refuge in one of the numerous and curiously British shelters along the promenade, but not before we were soaked.
All photographs were taken with a Nikon D800 and a Nikkor 24-120 f/4.0.
Natural Symmetry
Low Tide
Waiting for the storm
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Wow! What a fabulous tree in natural symmetry and in mono with its many tones here it is a stunner. Was it really that isolated or have you had to eliminate some objects?
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There were a few branches hanging into the frame from a couple other trees near to where i was standing Carol, and a couple of scraps of litter on the grass.
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