It’s fast becoming the latter end of each year that gets more and more horrible for me. Whether its the just me or it really is some higher power, so happens and I’m really beginning to hate this time of year.
To try to stop myself just sitting in doors I decide that I needed to get out and about for some free air and some photography. The weather really was bad this morning and a walk in the rain didn’t appeal, but the rain was due to stop around lunchtime and sure enough it did. So off I went to walk around Werneth Low near Hyde.
This area is dominated by the cenotaph and I have photographed this a number of times, but today I didn’t care. Today was about the process, about the fact that I’d got my backside out of the house and didn’t wallow. It’s a popular spot with walkers and dog walkers alike and there were a few of each. In fact just as I set up to take this first image a group walkers decided to stop and chat right in the centre of the image. They soon moved on.
The good thing about rainy days is that it really does give some create mood and shapes in the clouds and this day was no exception. The short monument in the foreground is actually a way finder. If you stand and look at the plinth on the top it shows what you can see on the horizon., it points out the landmarks and hills in the distance.
My previous images of the cenotaph make use of the dead tree on the right of this image, but today its a bit player in this grand vista.
What the weather forecast didn’t tell me was that there would be gusts of strong wind that would accompany the rain. I have to say I did make a rookie mistake today and left the camera on the tripod as I fiddled with the Image Edge software on my phone. Thankfully when the wind did upend my tripod the camera landed on the brass and suffered no more than a few tufts of grass sticking in the hot shoe port on the top. Phew.
To make sure things were working properly after the accident I took the camera off the tripod and decided to take a few hand held mages. To my surprise the above image is the second shot I took hand held. I do like how the two monuments line up here and the moody sky adds to the overall atmosphere, I like it.
A walked around the low for a while but didn’t really find any other compositions that caught my eye, but on the way back to the car I did see this third image that I thought might work as qm image for my 3 by 3 project. I’m not sure it does the cenotaph is slightly off centre in the image but I do like the gate in the foreground.
So I achieved todays mission, get out of the house and get some fresh air. I really hate this time of year.