OUTER SUBURBS 232 – A WEATHER FRONT MOVES THROUGH
May 24, 2020 13 Comments
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Out early, walking in the lockdown. I’ve taken fewer photos during these walks recently, for three reasons I think. First the sun is higher in the sky now, even during the very early hours I keep – I’ll have to wait until the very earliest stirrings of autumn before the light gets lower and more golden again. Second, I’ve worked out a “safe” walking route where the all important social distancing can easily be achieved, but as this is mainly through suburban housing estates, I’m rather reticent about pointing a camera towards anyone’s front windows! But thirdly, and inevitably I suppose, all of this virus turmoil is getting to me such that, as I walk, my mind is often preoccupied with things other than photography. It can take quite an effort to re-focus the mind into real “looking and seeing” mode; having Roe Deer and Foxes around does me good!
But last Thursday the skies became a little more dramatic as a small weather front passed eastwards over Bristol. It brought a couple of light and in fact quite refreshing showers, and as I looked at the clouds moving over from the west, this scene unfolded.
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
Click onto the image to open a larger version in a separate window – recommended.
Technique: TG-5 at 70mm (equiv); 200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 21 May 2020.
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About Adrian Lewis
I’m glad you found a route that works but I’m sorry it’s hard to tear your mind away from PPP – perilous pandemic preoccupations. It has a way of seeping into the cracks of our consciousness, right? We have to resists and get back to being creative.
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Yes, it seeps into the cracks, that’s a very good way of putting it. But yesterday was a bank holiday here, and the hospital in my home town, Weston-super-Mare, temporarily ceased admissions due to a spike in virus cases – I’m hoping that this was because the hospital itself, after cuts, is not too robust, and not that the spike is real/large.
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Photo is beautifully divided into layers of colours.
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Very glad you like it, my friend! 🙂
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Keeping your attention out word on the environment is the absolutely most therapeutic thing you can do and it has the wonderful side benefit of producing gorgeous photography like this. Staying worried serves no constructive purpose unless you consider going insane to be constructive. I do believe that it is possible to be relatively carefree and mindful at the same time. But staying extroverted and creative, as I said, is the best therapy of all. And, selfishly, I get to look at the pictures!
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Very good advice, my friend, thank you. We are doing ok; being retired is a great help; though we are both floored by an truly enormous error of judgement by our Prime Minister yesterday.
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Trump’s got him beat for idiocy. Please forgive Siri for her spelling errors.
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Oh yes, I think that’s true, the longer he goes on, and especially so during this pandemic, the plainer it is that Trump is simply of a far, far lower caliber than his job requires, startlingly so really. Johnson is nowhere near down to Trump’s level, but still he is proving disappointing – and enormously so yesterday. 😦
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A race to the bottom. There’s always the Darwin Award. A lot of Trump’s base are trying to win it. I wish them luck in their striving for it. Before November.
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We had rain for most of the day here too, and it is most welcome!
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Good! A very old friend of mine is in Perth, western Oz, and I hear that they are facing a serious storm.
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Stay Alert!! Yes, super pic
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Yes, Stay Alert is definitely the thing; and Stay Worried is probably the thing too, in that its is 100% better than becoming carefree and blase about the threat. Glad you like the picture – thanks!
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