Revisiting a Home Patch Favourite
The sky looked promising. Certainly more promising than the following morning's forecast sunrise anyway. A rather hastily put-together visit to Rutland Water and Normanton Church on the south shore to catch the evening light. I'd been here before but this time the sunset was in a different position to the January and April timing of previous visits - this time, more in-line with the church and the causeway pathway leading up to it.
On arrival, I noticed that unfortunately a bank of cloud above the horizon would prematurely hide the sun at the moment of sunset, so a quickly composed image of the church and grasses in the foreground backlit by the sun was exposed. The sky is burnt out by shooting into the sun, but I adore the warm summer sunset colours of the image.
I love the peaceful serenity of smooth water, so once again, my trusty Lee Big Stopper was put to use to fade out the ripples in the reservoir for a second composition. Finally, a slightly rushed third shot found by my step-daughter featuring the small garden and boat was composed - not a bad shot with a full array of foreground, mid ground and through to the distance.
