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<\/p>\nSlater’s Bridge in Little Langdale is an ancient handmade stone bridge that has probably got its name from generations past where Miners would cross the river to work in the nearby slate mines such as Cathedral Quarry.<\/p>\n
I’ve been here a couple of times before. Only once with my camera however. I’ve been looking to visit here on a morning with the light illuminating the bridge from what I consider the best composition of the bridge which is slightly downstream of the bridge as seen below.<\/p>\n
I use an app on my iPhone called the Photographers Ephemeris<\/i> (TPE) which advises you on the position of the sun on any given day, time and location. It’s a must for any Landscape Photographer.<\/p>\n
As you can see on the image below taken from the App. The wide yellow line indicates sunset and the thinner yellow line the position of the sun at the time suggested in the box below. You drag the box and the lines move. In relation to the Suns position. Also extremely useful is the angle of the sun too. I consider 20 degrees to be the start of the best light of the day. It just gets better as it lowers after that. Using the information below I could see the sun should illuminate Lingmoor Fell over Little Langdale Tarn from the side until sunset. There is a feature in the App where you can specify shadows from nearby objects such as tall buildings and mountains and at what time you’d lose the sun. I haven’t figured out how to do this just yet but knew if I were in position from 16:24 as the sun hits 20 degrees I should be best placed to see he best of the light as the sunsets.<\/p>\n
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That’s the theory. Here’s how it turned out. I made this short video to compliment the photos here<\/p>\n