November 2009

I was leading a few autumn landscape courses this year, and we'd rather dismal damp weather for the duration - ten days! But this is fantastic conditions for softly lit and altogether more subtle images. This is an inky black peat-stained highland river covered in fallen birch leaves. As the river flows past this pool it creates a back-eddy into which leaves are swept and then very slowly rotate as various currents grab them. The exposures varied from 10 seconds to 30 seconds and the results were unpredictable. I liked this one with the reflected reds of a nearby rowan showing in the water.