Hamish Roots' photostream

Somerset. I had just finished a bit of shopping in Wells (fighting the hordes through the shops as they picked up gifts - there's a reason they invented on-line shopping you know!) when I looked up to see the clouds building in the evening light, taking on fantastically intense oranges and yellows. I threw what I had in the car and sped off to find the nearest hill, which just turned out to provide an uninterrupted view out over the Somerset Levels and Glastonbury Tor off in the distance (the little spike left of centre). The intensity of colours and light reflecting on, and the shapes of, the clouds that gradually blend to a soft pink on the horizon really make this one. There really was no need to adjust the saturation up or down...
(Press L - worth seeing a little bigger)

High on the plain of...the Mendips...

An on-going little project. As you can imagine it takes a while to create...(that said the snow machine certainly sped things up last week!)

Autumn colours, check
Raining, check
Trees, check
Stream, check
Wellies, check
Assemble goretex garments to resemble burkha like appearance from the outside, check
(Then take hood down cause: heating up! check)
Find potential yet seemingly impossible to reach composition and make your way across the stream without breaching welly height, check
Find out composition might have actually been worth the slippery trek across the stream (yay!) and set up camera, check
Fill wellies whilst immersing fully extended tripod into said stream, check
Recover, swear, laugh with a hint of insanity, reposition tripod and compose, check
Return to opposite bank and not slip over breaking yourself/camera/lens/tripod/all of the above in doing so, check (just)
Return happy to car but realise the only towel to dry exposed head is the dog towel...oh well, if it's good enough for him...

Just another landscape day...check

London. Nothing cheese based in this particular image (next time though perhaps). Made whilst strolling through Hyde Park on perhaps the peak of autumn colours going on in London and on a fantastically warm day too. Remarkable to be wandering along in a t-shirt at the end of October...just superb. So, instead of a shot of the land here's one looking up through the yellow leaves to the wonderfully contrasting cloudless blue sky beyond.