Castlerigg is a favourite haunt for landscape photographers. It provides a huge number of compositional possibilities. This view, looking south-east towards Helvellyn is perhaps my personal favourite, providing reasonable separation of the stones and subliminal echoing of the surrounding hill contours by the shapes of the top of the stones and the imaginary lines that can be made between them. This image was made late in May when the sun rises in the north-east. There is a gap in the surrounding hills, allowing direct lighting of the stones and optimal textural rendering of the foreground at sunrise.
Castlerigg is a favourite haunt for landscape photographers. It provides a huge number of compositional possibilities. This view, looking south-east towards Helvellyn is perhaps my personal favourite, providing reasonable separation of the stones and subliminal echoing of the surrounding hill contours by the shapes of the top of the stones and the imaginary lines that can be made between them. This image was made late in May when the sun rises in the north-east. There is a gap in the surrounding hills, allowing direct lighting of the stones and optimal textural rendering of the foreground at sunrise.