Morning Frost at Lansdown
Up above Bath is an area called the race course and Lansdown. Is is on top of a ridge as and as such gets moist air blown in from the Bristol Channel. Recently we have had a number of sub-freezing nights here in Bath, so Saturday morning I thought it would be good to see and photograph the resulting hoare frost up at Lansdown. Friday night I drove Redington down for his stay this weekend and the fog was thick and hoare frost already evident at about 9:30 that evening.
Vicki was away so the next morning only the two of us got up at sunrise and drove up the hill. The fog was clearing on the hill but as we headed for Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument the fog was still gathered there. Vicki was good enough to let Redington use her camera with a new wide angle zoom lens. I had my little Casio compact camera. It was a good chance to compare the two lenses. Some of the photos here allow you to do that.
We walked through the fog and the conditions were dismal in the fog for photography, low contrast though bright.
Here is the one I took of Bevil Grenville's Monument.
This is Redington's; better composition and a nice haunted aspect I think.
We walked towards the monument and then beyond through some forest. Here the branches were etched with frost on their windward side.
The path through the trees.
Some moss on a stone wall.
Finally we came upon the ridge line over looking the Civil war battlefield of Lansdown. The sun shown above the horizon and the fog was receding.
The sun rise.
It bone-numbly cold out even as the sun rose.
The fog starts to clear over the valley.
Here is my shot of the wall.
Redington took this one.
Below is a look back at the ridge where the battle was fought.
I took this one looking back.
Redington's with nicer sweep and composition.
Mine with some zoom.
Redington's again looks better.
Mine of the tree and the wall.
Redington's makes it look spectacular.
The path back through the woods.
A great shot by Redington of a droopy tree across the road from the car.
Vicki was away so the next morning only the two of us got up at sunrise and drove up the hill. The fog was clearing on the hill but as we headed for Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument the fog was still gathered there. Vicki was good enough to let Redington use her camera with a new wide angle zoom lens. I had my little Casio compact camera. It was a good chance to compare the two lenses. Some of the photos here allow you to do that.
We walked through the fog and the conditions were dismal in the fog for photography, low contrast though bright.
Here is the one I took of Bevil Grenville's Monument.
This is Redington's; better composition and a nice haunted aspect I think.
We walked towards the monument and then beyond through some forest. Here the branches were etched with frost on their windward side.
The path through the trees.
Some moss on a stone wall.
Finally we came upon the ridge line over looking the Civil war battlefield of Lansdown. The sun shown above the horizon and the fog was receding.
The sun rise.
It bone-numbly cold out even as the sun rose.
The fog starts to clear over the valley.
Here is my shot of the wall.
Redington took this one.
Below is a look back at the ridge where the battle was fought.
I took this one looking back.
Redington's with nicer sweep and composition.
Mine with some zoom.
Redington's again looks better.
Mine of the tree and the wall.
Redington's makes it look spectacular.
The path back through the woods.
A great shot by Redington of a droopy tree across the road from the car.
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Mark Rozema