Grantchester Meadows is one of my favourite landscape photo locations close to Cambridge. I've now managed to "get lucky" with the weather on a few occasions and I thought I would share a few photos taken over the last few years.
Dec 2007 was my first early morning visit, nice frosty morning, but not much in the way of cloud cover.
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| Grantchester trees |
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| River Cam |
After some heavy snowfall in
Dec 2010 I visited mid morning.
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| Snowy Grantchester |
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| Winter wonderland |
Jump forward to
Jan 2014 and a near perfect morning. Frosty with some light cloud cover which picked up the sunrise colours really nicely.
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| Fire in the sky Grantchester trees |
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| Frosty ditch |
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| Long exposure shot of the sun rising |
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| Frosty molehills |
Jan 2015, after carefully studying the weather forecast I made a good call and was lucky with conditions again, nice frosty morning a little cloud cover and a bit of mist rising off the fields.
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| Classic Grantchester meadows |
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| Glowing tree |
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| Sun's up |
Looking through my shots over the last 7 years is quite interesting. My equipment has changed very little, a camera upgrade from a Canon 5d to a 5d mk2, but my lens selection (for all the shots above) has stayed the same. Another change is my switch to Lightroom in 2012, but probably more significant than these minor adjustments is my ability to learn. I certainly feel my style has developed and improved over the years and that's what drives me on in photography.
I look forward to doing a similar review in another 7 yrs time, now that's a scary thought!
