It is the most amazing sensation to watch the sun rise above the hills here in the Elan Valley. Many times the intensity peters out by the time it peeks over the brow. Then there are days like this.... when it changes the frosty blue with a shard of fire erupting across the landscape. On this morning I stood by Craig Goch Dam and was almost breathless as the light pushed its way under the arches. I took the photo in HDR which I knew could either work or ruin it. I spent my hour or two here watching a kestrel near the dam, in fact I got a great glimpse of it as it landed on the dam wall.... its red feathers sparkled the same rich tones of the landscape where the sun hit on the browns like the bracken slopes.
After a morning like this you just feel so alive.
F13 1/4 sec ISO 100 35mm lens with graduated filter HDR
Craig Goch Dam
F 11 1/15 ISO 100 35mm lens with graduated filter
Craig Goch reservoir looking to Pont ar Elan
F 16 1.3sec ISO 160 35mm lens
Waterfall in the Claerwen
F 9 1/5 ISO 100 35mm lens HDR
Frosty and dry river bed under Penygarreg Dam.
WOW!!!!
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