{"id":8986,"date":"2015-09-18T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamesbellphotography.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:51:01","slug":"skelwith-sunset-with-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesbellphotography.co.uk\/blog\/shoots\/skelwith-sunset-with-a-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Skelwith Sunset with a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sat having my supper totally oblivious to the time and conditions outside. Last time I looked it was flat and grey and I’d already resigned myself to staying in.<\/p>\n

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Then the next time I looked up Loughrigg was alight with the amazing golden light I adore. Light like this can last seconds or minutes so I rushed to grab my camera and capture what I could from the front door.<\/p>\n

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I must have taken this image a thousand times from all different types of weather\u00a0but there is something inside me that is just drawn to photograph scenes like this. The evening light like this I find so pleasing.<\/p>\n

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I made these shots and within less than five minutes the light had gone as the sun dipped below the Langdale Fells to the West.<\/p>\n

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I decided to have a short walk down to the Bench to see how the day was concluded. Would there be a dramatic sunset<\/a>\u00a0like I’ve witnessed here so many times.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the short walk through the woods I noticed a larger than usual bird immediately in front of me in the trees.<\/p>\n

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As I stopped to look it flew off, it was immediately obvious it was an owl. I tracked it’s flight to a tree in the distance and approached to take some shots. Luckily I had a 100-400mm zoom lens on my camera from the shots over a Loughrigg just moments ago.<\/p>\n

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He’s\u00a0looking.<\/p>\n

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Using the 400mm Image Stabalised lens and the 50 million pixel Canon 5DSR Im able to get some really detailed shots. All handheld too.<\/p>\n

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Peekaboo.<\/p>\n

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I’ve not really spent much time photographing wildlife in the Lake District but I really enjoyed these few moments.<\/p>\n

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Looking at these images later that evening I suspect this is a young Tauney Owl as there are what appears to be baby feathers around its head.<\/p>\n

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I bet this is one of the two owls Lewis and I tracked down a few weeks ago in this exact spot in the dark.<\/p>\n

We had our head torches on and followed their twit-toowing until we were directly below them. Shining our head torches up their eyes light up and we had found them. Two tiny owls perched on a branch side by side. Perhaps this one tonight is one of those two we saw some weeks back.<\/p>\n

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Anyway how’s the sunset….<\/p>\n

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Continuing on to the bench it looked obvious that there would be no spectacular sunset tonight just the last embers of light glowing in the distance over the Langdale fells.<\/p>\n

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It’s always a treat to see animals in the wild. I’ve been lucky enough to see owls, squirrels and Deers this year which is a lot when your not used to seeing anything other than the neighbours cat digging up your flowerbeds or the odd garden bird.<\/p>\n

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Bog Lane.<\/p>\n

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One of my favourite Branches around here. No seriously.<\/p>\n

You can see more \u00a0of my images over Loughrigg here<\/a> along with more of my Sunset shots over Langdale here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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