
A Frozen Hatfield Forest Lake in Black and White
I’m always a sucker for clouds like this 😉 A black and white HDR photograph from Saturday, just before the big thaw.
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I’m always a sucker for clouds like this 😉 A black and white HDR photograph from Saturday, just before the big thaw.
My first attempt at light painting on a larger scale. This is the Shell House in Hatfield Forest.

Sunset on a frozen Hatfield Forest lake. The ducks seemed quite happy sitting on the ice – there was a thawed our area of water to the right, but it was pretty crowded and had a couple of swans lording it over the ducks.

I revisited the site of some summer fun to use my 10 stop neutral density filter by Hi-Tech. As I have discovered before this comes with a very strong blue colour cast. Knowing this now I was able to take the appropriate white balance to correct this…and then re-added it

Hatfield Forest is a 15 minute drive from Great Dunmow so we visit quite regularly. On this particular visit I went along at dawn with a group of photographers from the Dunmow Photography Club

So, 11 hours after I was here last I made it, along with other members of the Dunmow Photography Club, for sunrise. We arrived at 6.00am whilst it was still pitch black – the sky was clear but the mist that had come in last night was thickly blanketing much

There may be (hopefully) 2 photos from this location today and tomorrow… Today I caught the sunset at the lake in Hatfield Forest and the mist rolled in down the lake over the space of about an hour. Tomorrow, if I get up, I’ll be back here at 6.00am to

Bishops Stortford Camera Club today and we returned to Hatfield Forest for a bit of light painting. When I arrived I had just missed the full sunset…but this wasn’t too shabby.

I do like photographing at night and I do like the effect a long exposure has on the clouds…so I was bound to like this shot 😉 This was shot on the edge of Hatfield Forest looking out towards Harlow. Here’s a cooler (in colour temperature rather than it’s better

Having spent the day in Rye on the East Sussex coast, I have a huge mountain of photographs to process, but Tuesday’s are camera club day and so it was we found ourselves at the lake in the middle of Hatfield Forest with this sunset.
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