After a few more days of rain, the rising water level at the inland lake had flooded the last remaining islands. So chances for waders were slim, if not to say non-existing. Because the weather forecast looked promising, I decided to leave the long lens at home and try my hand at landscapes. After all, the heather is still reasonably good looking (though rapidly fading) and it would be a shame not to photograph the sea of purple that is so typical for the region I live in. I went to a small patch of heather close to the inland lake. It’s not the most beautiful or vast expanse of heather in the area, but is is one of the few patches with undulating terrain.
Most of the area I live in is completely flat, which (at least to me) makes it very hard to create interesting landscape photographs with enough depth in them. This patch of heather is relatively rough, enabling me to create a composition with leading lines and some depth. I went to the spot twice over the weekend. As usual, the weather forecast was wrong. On Friday, no fog or sunrise or interesting skies, just a plain grey mass. On Saturday, again no fog, but at least a sunrise and some color in the sky. And of course: when driving to the office on Monday, it was a beautiful morning with a dense groundfog and a perfect sunrise. Ain’t it nice…
Heather Landscape; Canon 1D Mark III w. 17-40/4 L; 1.6s at F16 and ISO 100; tripod and ND Grad filters.
