A few shots taken on a short walk around the castle and riverside in Castlederg, with Spring well established now.
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Fiery skies this morning as I left Castlederg heading for “The Fearn” (Fearn Hill) on the way to work. The best of the colour didn’t last very long, so I tried to take full advantage by stopping several times to capture it. Hard to concentrate on getting to work on mornings like this.
(I did make it in on time eventually)
I had a great day’s hill walking in the Sperrin Mountains today after setting off early to get there in frost and fog. I was eager to arrive and get on foot in the mountains, but couldn’t resist stopping briefly before reaching my start point to get a shot of the fog before it was burned off by the rising sun.
A nice way to start the day before even taking a step!
This winter has been incredibly mild so far, so when you do get a brief cold snap, you have to make the best of the fog and hoar frost, and get as many images as possible.
Such a pleasure to be out on a morning like this!
A cold winter’s morning in January, but the sheep in the fields were accompanied by lambs – an early sign of spring?
Hopefully there will be a few more winter photo opportunities first!
A dusting of snow on the ground and a firey sky this morning.
Hoar frost on the trees, against a blue sky.
Just before Christmas I did a couple of posts on a frosty, foggy, late November day in the Castle Park in Castlederg. On the same day, I was on a couple of roads leading north out of the town, rising as they did, on to higher ground. At a certain point, the fog stopped on the sides of the valley, and it was possible to move a few metres downhill back into thick fog, or a few metres uphill and be under blue skies, with hoar frost shining in the sun. There was a great variety of shots to be had by moving just a little in either direction these are a few of the first ones processed from a happy couple of hours.
Backlit fog and skeletal trees.
Hawthorn leaves catching the light on a frozen tree.
Winter in the hedgerows.
Patterns in an icy puddle.
A minimalist image created by a lone tree, isolated by the fog. Some trees are just photogenic.
