Pete_Rowbottom

Langdales drama

First shot of the recent trip to the Lakes, before meeting with the others I decided to climb up Birk Knott and chance a shot toward the Langdales over Blea Tar...
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First shot of the recent trip to the Lakes, before meeting with the others I decided to climb up Birk Knott and chance a shot toward the Langdales over Blea Tarn.

There was rain showers on and off here so just got suited up and decided to wait it out in the hope of a decent break and some good sky, what I hadn't factored in however was just was windy it was going to be up here!! After setting up I covered the lens and filter holder with a spare hat on the tripod and settled in. within 2 minutes while I was looking in my bag the whole lot had blown over... 14-24 lens, and filter holder face down by some rocks, I could hardly bring myself to look... somehow amazingly there didn't seem to be anything wrong with at all! maybe the hat on the front helped.. couple of little blemishes but nothing more, it was literally about 5cm from a pile of rocks that would have been game over.

After waiting for the rain to subside, it was still seriously windy with some gusts almost blowing you off your feet, some light did appear and I did managed a few shots, this being my favourite, this time with the camera bag firmly weighted onto the tripod underneath! 'limited' to a 30 second exposure with this as I'd stupidly left my cable release at home (always something!), but didn't matter here with the wind being so strong you didn't need any longer to get good cloud movement across the scene, thankfully managed to get down again without further incident.

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