Epic Weather - 12/01/22

The long run of boring/grey/wet/mild weather is over. I managed to get out with my camera four times this week. One morning was slightly disappointing (there was no mist), but the other 3 were beautiful, and quite different weather wise. Off course this has all coincided with being busy at work, and the whole week has felt like a whirlwind. Get up early and leg it to the park on my bike. Roll back home just in time to log in for work. Stick a hat on my head for any 'Microsoft Teams' meetings that are scheduled in the morning, to disguise the fact that I've spent a couple of hours crawling around in mud in the park with my camera, and look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards. One of my colleagues told me a looked really 'cool' with my beany hat on, so at least that's something. In my lunch hour I get chance to make myself look presentable, should I be required for video calls during the afternoon. At least I'm not client facing and just talk to the other 3d artists, the producer and the director, so what I look like is not a big deal.

It's been frustrating because I've not really had much time to edit the images that I've taken. Usually, I like to get home and immediately look through my shots and start editing straight away. I'm always curious to see what I've captured. Now I've got a whole bunch of images that I haven't yet had my full attention, and it's making me very twitchy. The weekend has also been busy as my husband and I have upgraded to a new, bigger allotment, and most of our spare time has been taken up sorting that out (more crawling around in mud).

Anyway, here are a small handful of images that I took on Wednesday morning. There are more to follow as I sift through and edit, from Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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Pastel Dawn

This might be one of the nicest sunrises I've seen in ages. Based on the weather forecast, I had not intended to do a sunrise shoot, but when I set off on my bike and saw the high cloud, I decided to head to the ponds, as it was clearly going to light up beautifully. I arrived just in time for this shot. The colours were dreamy, and with a perfect amount of mist.

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Reflections

The colour gradually changed from pink, to blue and orange, as the cloud moved across the sky and the sun rose higher. The water was like a mirror.

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The mist began to thicken a little as the sun rose. I headed to a little copse of trees that I have shot before....

Tree Patterns

After taking this shot, I headed into another one of my favourite patches of woodland. Sadly, the path was really muddy (did I mention it had rained quite a lot?! :) and so the shot I had in mind looked rather trampled and squelchy. The pitfalls of photographing a popular London park! It had been an amazing morning though. I will post another update once I've had a bit more time to do some more editing.

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