Fair Weather Photography?
Myself and a friend (Dav Thomas) planned a trip out to the dales a few months ago and when it came around the weather was, to put it mildly, soggy. However, we chickened each other into going out anyway and despite me getting lost we ended up driving around the back of Malham Tarn to a place called Winskill Stones.
Winskill is somewhere I’d never even heard of but it has a wondrous backdrop, s small limestone pavement and some amazing stone wallage, The following images are Dav’s (which are stunning if you ask me). My ‘snaps’ with the Ricoh are at the top and I’ll add the tranny scans when I get them.
The weather didn’t stop us getting shots, in fact the weather made the pictures better – we only stopped when the camera bags started filling up 😉 Rainy weather just adds to the subtle drama of a location like this. One thing that did surprise me was that the mozzies were still active even though it was raining – bloody things. Dav also had a very neat little umbrella that you can attach to your flash bracket (he uses it on his Chamonix), very useful to keep the rain off your grads!
