Embracing the sunset

This was a very impromptu thing, I'd been dithering about where to go for sunset and I'd thought about Castlerigg, I visited a few hours before to try and plan what I'd do but I just cannot for the life of me create something there that I'm happy with so I wanted another location, not on the lake as I'd done that the night before and was happy with the shot.....


So let's go up a bit, Latrigg is a great hill overlooking Keswick in the shadow of Skiddaw to the rear, a good walk up to it with hardly a soul around apart from a few fellrunners you get a great view down over Kewsick, the Lake, and the Mountain range.


The light when I got up here was best described as bloody awful, hazy, no contrast, no detail below it was just grim, I decided to commit though and see what happened, either way it was a nice walk and a good place to chill out for an hour or so, if I didn't get anything then so what, beats being stuck indoors....


The light did come good in the end and it was a great sunset, got a few shots with a really nice sunburst as the sun set inbetween a 'v' shape in the fells - one for another day, the only foreground here to speak of is the bench, which I had been using, the only thing missing from it was someone sat on it.... and with nobody else to ask it was me or nobody... I'll let you decide wether I actually add to or detract from the image, this was my last shot from the day before walking back down, and it was great to sit there and take it all in, and hearing the shutter fire behind me, hoping I'd get something like this, it was a good few minutes before I went back to the camera to look, too often with shooting these scenes you fail to soak it up as you are committed to capturing the image.

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