Wiltshire Landscape Photography: Storms, Clouds & sun
17th April 2012
Wiltshire Landscape Photography
Storms, Clouds & sun
Changeable is how I would describe the weather at the moment. I headed out this week to capture some specific images for a competition I am working on, only to find the weather, the light, the timing was not working.
Instead I decided to go visit some other locations across the region, but a bit further afield. As I headed out towards Salisbury I passed one of my favourite locations, a lone barn, standing in a field which this year was planted with rape, which was in flower. Set against the blue skies with some white fluffy clouds rolling through, it looked great and although I have captured similar shots before, I couldn't resist having another go.
As I was taking the shot, setting up, getting into the right position, I hadn't noticed the impending storm that was creeping up behind me and it was only the serious increase in wind speed that made me turn around, to the greeted by a hail storm bearing down on me.. I ran back to the car, just missing getting soaked.
Later in the day, with the storms building across the region, I was driving up to Stonehenge when I passed a field of rape, with a passing storm behind it. The combination of colours really worked for me and I stopped the car, jumped out and climbed a small hill to get the view. The rainbow was a real plus.
Unfortunately the storms over Stonehenge didn't work so well, there will be more to come from the day .....
Storms, Clouds & sun
Changeable is how I would describe the weather at the moment. I headed out this week to capture some specific images for a competition I am working on, only to find the weather, the light, the timing was not working.
Instead I decided to go visit some other locations across the region, but a bit further afield. As I headed out towards Salisbury I passed one of my favourite locations, a lone barn, standing in a field which this year was planted with rape, which was in flower. Set against the blue skies with some white fluffy clouds rolling through, it looked great and although I have captured similar shots before, I couldn't resist having another go.
As I was taking the shot, setting up, getting into the right position, I hadn't noticed the impending storm that was creeping up behind me and it was only the serious increase in wind speed that made me turn around, to the greeted by a hail storm bearing down on me.. I ran back to the car, just missing getting soaked.
Later in the day, with the storms building across the region, I was driving up to Stonehenge when I passed a field of rape, with a passing storm behind it. The combination of colours really worked for me and I stopped the car, jumped out and climbed a small hill to get the view. The rainbow was a real plus.
Unfortunately the storms over Stonehenge didn't work so well, there will be more to come from the day .....