Summit attempt on Bla Bheinn (Blaven)

[Hadrian]

We set off on a cold, cloudy morning to shoot the numerous waterfalls on the slopes of Blaven, as we rose up, the snow got deeper and the waterfalls and rivers was frozen solid!! I decided to head higher to see what the conditions were like, the snow underfoot was wet,heavy and about 8" deep, the wind howled..... Oh get on with it!!!! ;0)
10-20mm @10mm, f11, 1/30 sec. (+1.33 EV), ISO100, 1 stop GND, Raw through DPP,Only Levels/Curves and LCE/Smart Sharpen in CS4 (Take note GG:p)
I eventually made it to the corrie far LHS and thought better of going any further.. Plus I was starving!!!!


C&C more than welcomed, Hadrian

[STUARTINPERTH]

Looks very wild and uninviting thanks for sharing it with us and saving me going there.
Great image Hadrian and crystal clear, well captured.
Stu

[grumpygeorge]

it looks unfinished:p

[Alun]

Superb detail to Bla Bheinn and it really conveys a sense of majestic indifference. I also like the foreground Christmas Pudding.

[Malcolm]

Superb detail to Bla Bheinn and it really conveys a sense of majestic indifference. I also like the foreground Christmas Pudding.

Isn't that just one of Alun's rocks with added accessories?

Love the image, very moody

Malcolm

[mstphoto]

Possably the best of all Skye's Munros.
I thought it was a mono image to start with until I noticed the colour in the vegetation around the f/g rock.

10/10 for getting out in these conditions

[rob lloyd]

Good elements in this but the light was not there to give it some bite. Rob

[Alex]

God it looks miserable and cold and you wouldn't find me up there All this shot was needing was a stream of light coming through those clouds and this would have been a belter mate.

[peterc4]

love the shot a great scene, alittle bit to much foreground interest for me, a nice shot none the less

[Hadrian]

Cheers chaps, Rob/Alex the scene was missing light as was the second half of the week!!!!

[Lez S]

Should've just gone the whole hog and made it b&w Hade:p

I like it, it certainly does portray a wild and desolate place, look forward to my first trip
to sky at the end of the month.

[Hadrian]

I know Lez, it is almost mono but for me there isn't enough tonality to make it true b&w.
I hope you have better weather than we did, alpine blue skies for 4 days and then 100% cloud for the rest, oh and minus 16°C on Rannoch on the way up, not my ideal conditions, just as a taster here is one of the many "waterfalls" Straight out of camera etc