The Day The Sky Fell Down

And over the Cumberland Hills - the very last shot that I took before I got drenched and still had 3.5 miles to walk back to the car!

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Very nice David!! Lovely composition,has a great feel about. Right out of a scene from Sherlock Holmes &The Hound of Baskervilles . Great work. Thanks for sharing

That's the trouble - you get such awful weather in England!

Its a stunning image David. Wonderful light and great composition. Well worth the soaking you got (easy for me to say )

I agree with Trevor and Reigh.
Great light and comp.
The pano crop makes this image work.
The road disappearing over the ridge of the hill
towards the cottage works too.
Excellent.

Would this be "Great Grimpen Mire", David.

Reigh Higgins wrote in post #2157439
Very nice David!! Lovely composition,has a great feel about. Right out of a scene from Sherlock Holmes &The Hound of Baskervilles . Great work. Thanks for sharing

Thanks Reigh I should have included both my hounds into the shot and it would have worked better for you

weemannie wrote in post #2157526
That's the trouble - you get such awful weather in England!

Trevor there's nothing for it I'm going to move back to Scotland to get some warm gentle, sunny breezes and less precipitation

lomond wrote in post #2157542
Would this be "Great Grimpen Mire", David.

Cameron, It's a view towards Swindale and Bampton Common - taken from the edge of Stainmore Common and Bowes Moor.

Don't know about "Great Grimpen Mire" but the land was certainly a "Great Grim Mire" by the time I reached the car...even the dogs were cheesed off!

Lovely image. Not all that different from the weather in the Pacific Northwest..... The crop works, the colors work, and the road leading over the hill works, all very well.

Lovely image!

David,

Lovely lighting. Very pastoral.

One little thing that I wish, though. Compositionally, I think it might have balanced a bit better if you had moved just a wee bit to your right as you took the shot. The road seems a bit awkward coming in from the middle of the bottom of frame.

As far as the 3.5 mile walk goes - well, just be grateful it wasn't 5.6 kilometers!

Rad

Meerkat17 wrote in post #2157402
I got drenched and still had 3.5 miles to walk back to the car!

Hopefully you had a waterproof bag for the camera!

But it was worth it for that lovely shot. Did you use a GND filter, I wonder?

Titus213 wrote in post #2158225
Lovely image. Not all that different from the weather in the Pacific Northwest..... The crop works, the colors work, and the road leading over the hill works, all very well.

You have much the same weather as we do as I have relations who live in Seattle so have experienced your weather Thanks for the comment.

Radtech1 wrote in post #2158369
David,

Lovely lighting. Very pastoral.

One little thing that I wish, though. Compositionally, I think it might have balanced a bit better if you had moved just a wee bit to your right as you took the shot. The road seems a bit awkward coming in from the middle of the bottom of frame.

As far as the 3.5 mile walk goes - well, just be grateful it wasn't 5.6 kilometers!

Rad

Thanks for the comment and suggestion Rad, I agree and even on the original it could have been just a tad more to the right. As you can see from the original image below, I cropped it from the bottom which made the road more central.

montreal wrote in post #2158379
Hopefully you had a waterproof bag for the camera! But it was worth it for that lovely shot. Did you use a GND filter, I wonder?

The camera was well covered it was me that got the soaking! Didn't even have a waterproof with me!

I did use a GND and also the CP was on the camera as the weather had been blue skies earlier! Thanks for your comment.

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Meerkat17 wrote in post #2158679
Didn't even have a waterproof with me!

I didn't mean anything sophisticated you know. I always carry a grocery type plastic bag.

Thanks for the answer... I was guessing you used a GND.

edit: you know what? I think I prefer the original...

Meerkat, great shot! So you have a proper camera bag but not a proper raincoat eh?

montreal wrote in post #2158695
I didn't mean anything sophisticated you know. I always carry a grocery type plastic bag.

Thanks for the answer... I was guessing you used a GND.

edit: you know what? I think I prefer the original...

SanderH wrote in post #2158717
Meerkat, great shot! So you have a proper camera bag but not a proper raincoat eh?

The camera always comes first!

That looks really cool! (so thats what a mire looks like? I had an idea it was a big field of mud!)

ags007 wrote in post #2160028
That looks really cool! (so thats what a mire looks like? I had an idea it was a big field of mud!)

You were right with your own idea of what a mire looks like this is what Cameron meant. Thanks for the comment