Just as I was letting the hounds out for a leg stretch this evening I saw the sun setting over in the west. Out of our track and onto the lane gave me a better view of the scene so I quickly moved into a position for a decent compostion. It's hard not to take the same old view with the setting sun so the challenge was to turn a simple view into something more interesting.
Snow lane.
I felt that here the sun reflecting off the banks of snow really helped to lead the eye into the picture and the small tree just hid the sun a bit so that it didnt look too burnt out. Sunsets can be very nice but personally unless the sky colours are naturally "stunning" and not overdone in Lightroom I find them a bit boring. Much better to let nature do its job and as a photographer look for and capture a composition that does the sunset justice.
Following this shot I had time to walk further down the lane in this picture towards the trees, the hounds were having a good run round anyway. Down in the trees the sun was filtered by the branches but it was the melt water on the tarmac which caught my eye as it was picking up the sun nicely.
Gold Road.
So I got two pictures for the price of one. What did I say about taking the camera with me?
