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Coniston Water Evening Tilt Shift Shoot

James — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:33:55 +0000

In my continued process of evaluating the Hasselblad HTS1.5 Tilt Shift adapter I headed out to Coniston this evening to capture what I hoped would be some traditional Lake Side Landscape Photography. If you are familiar with my Landscape Photography you’ll notice I have been visiting this part of Coniston for a decade or more, it’s a great little location, really accessible and offers great views over Coniston Water up to to the World Famous Coniston Old Man above Coniston Village.

A modern take on a shot I made many many years ago, something a little different from the usual Jetty shot.

You can see more of my Landscape Photography Prints from Coniston here in my online gallery.

Coniston Old Man over Coniston Water Twilight

James — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:43:35 +0000

A late shoot today Coniston Old Man over Coniston Water Twilight. I love Landscape Photography like this in the Lake District. Lake side shots with foreground interest and an interesting backdrop.

My current collection of Framed Landscape Photography Prints form Coniston are available here in my gallery.

Sunset over Coniston Old Man

James — Sat, 12 May 2018 10:06:35 +0000

A quick visit to Coniston tonight, I had not much hope of anything materialising as it was flat and grey when I left Ambleside, however, all of a sudden the sky lit up, luckily for me I was in position and ready. Such is the case with Landscape Photography in the Lake District, it pays to be out and ready. For every night like this I probably have 10 where nothing develops so to speak, so this was a nice surprise. Always reminds me of the old saying “The more I practise, the luckier I get”

Archival quality framed prints of this image are available. Please contact me for details.

Coniston (In hope of light)

James — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:51:57 +0000

In search of light and inspiration around Coniston. Didn’t find any….

Coniston Water Shoot

James — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:03:12 +0000

In a recent post I mentioned I plan to return to a location on Coniston Water and tonight was that night. I visit Coniston often and love it down here at the waters edge. Landscape Photography at Coniston Water is always a pleasure and tonight I had two helpers with me.

A well positioned bench taking in the view down Coniston.

Stepping stones, the perfect lead in line to break up the foreground. Thank you whoever made this.

Looking to the sides, up to Coniston Old man and over towards Monk Coniston.

Ducks on Coniston.

I love the soft pastel colours

I hope we have many calm nights like this over the Summer months. Beautiful.

Coniston Old Man

That will do us, time for Ice Cream….

My boys Lewis aged 6 and Thomas 11 it is great to be out with these two.

You can see more of my Coniston Print Collection here in my gallery.

Hodge Close Quarry Drone Flight inc. Tarn Hows.

James — Sat, 14 May 2016 12:36:32 +0000

For my second Drone flight in the Lake District I headed to the magnificent Hodge Close Quarry. If you followed last years blog posts you’ll notice I spent a fair bit of time at Hodge Close throughout the year. Now I have the DJI Phantom 4 Drone I can see this magnificent location from a totally different perspective. If I’m honest the reason I wanted a Drone was for a Hodge Close Quarry Drone Flight.

I’m still a little nervous about flying the Drone and Hodge Close is perhaps a challenging place to fly given the sheer size of the place. I often feel dizzy just looking at the size of the drop into the water. Today was no different, I was pretty nervous at first and if I’m honest I was glad it was over having had a close shave, literally with a branch of a tree. There seems to be a thermal rising above the water which made the transition from flying over ground and a sudden drop a little challenging to handle. Gladly however I survived in one piece and am pretty pleased with the footage given it’s only my second flight. You can see my first here. In fact I’ve made a new category on the blog just for Drone related content, you can see that here.

Here’s what I captured from my Hodge Close Quarry Drone Flight.

My original plan was to fly over the main quarry and show the sudden drop as you pass over the edge, another scene I imagined was flying by the lone tree on the edge of the slate mountain which I photographed many times last year. You can see my favourite print here.

A late spring evening glow above Little Langdale.

A summer take on the Oak on the Edge that I photographed last year. You can see last years print here.

Moving on from Hodge Close I fancied a visit to Tarn Hows for my next flight.

A lone bench on the shore of Coniston Water. A nice evening to take in the view. i will come back here in the coming weeks specifically to shoot this view.

The Langdale Pikes from above Tarn Hows.

Going up above Tarn Hows.

I control the Drone via a remote control which uses my iPhone to display what the drone sees along with various settings. Here you can see the view 105.8meters above me looking over Tarn Hows to the Langdale Pikes.

The Drone.

A fine evening from above Tarn Hows.

You can see my collection of prints from Hodge close and Tarn Hows here.