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Please look at the picture full size against a grey background.
As a sometime landscape photographer I really struggled to see a picture in the Ogwen Valley. Heresy I know but it happens.
Of the genres of photography I find landscape really difficult.
I am rereading a book by Alain Briot called “Mastering Landscape Photography” The Luminous Landscape Essays.
See www.luminous-landscape.com/index.shtml
In the introduction to the book he makes a very good point that we have all heard many times before but I fail to practice in the field.
In your mind’s eye imagine a framed exhibition quality print before you raise the camera to your eye.
The seeing process is a complex subject which he and I agree on
– you see something
– you see a photo opportunity. (At this point I quite often ask myself will I print it? if the answer is no ….)
– see a photograph that you have made (and not just taken) as a framed exhibition print. The pre-visualisation is the connection between taking and the making of a photograph. It is the planning ahead of the Post-processing stage for successful communication.
Depending on the subject matter, there may not be the time to ponder these types of question in the field.
As a sods law tale – I can remember seeing the picture – a Postman carrying a sack of mail off the of boat in a moody background of Lundy Island. By the time I had switched my pre-historic Dslr on and it was ready, the picture had gone. Aah the one that got away.
Another top tip – leave your camera switched on – it will reboot its self from a sleep mode much quicker than turning it on.
A big hello to all the new followers of my little blog this week.
(c) Andy Beel FRPS 2012
Andy Beel FRPS 
An image whose scale is solely dependent on the lake (Llyn Ogwen I assume). I really like this: it makes you think, it raises questions and provides answers if you look hard enough. I assume that is ice in the foreground? Excellent writing too.
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Very nice! I like the way you are led in a zig zag diagonally through the image.
I don’t know why but it makes me think Lunar Landscape – perhaps I should take more water with it!
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“In your mind’s eye imagine a framed exhibition quality print before you raise the camera to your eye.” That’s a very valid point.
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