Gallery A favourite view This month’s theme:


JON SPARKS / Tilberthwaite Fells


‘Favourite views’. Hmmm... Favorite photo of a view or photo of a favourite view? Or perhaps a view in a favourite place? In the end I’ve tried to pick an image that works by whichever criteria, in this Lakeland view over the Tilberthwaite fells and Brathay valley towards Fairfield, Red Screes and Ill Bell. I’ve walked and/or biked over almost every bit of this view; I’ve even done some scary climbs at Hodge Close Quarry (on a pretty tight rope!); yet there’s always more to find. Technically the interest lies in the fact that it’s a stitched panorama taken on a full-frame DSLR with a 100mm lens (nominally a macro lens and very, very sharp). Eight original shots in portrait format were combined in Lightroom, yielding an image over 20,000 pixels wide. The horizontal coverage is just about ninety degrees. This is possible in a single shot with about a 20mm lens, but you wouldn’t get the same massive file, which does lend itself to making monster prints.


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KEITH FERGUS / The Cuillin from The Storr


The Cuillin at dawn from The Storr is an image I have craved for a number of years. The correct time of year, favourable weather conditions and being on Skye at the right time had eluded me until last October.


A fifty minute climb led me to my vantage point just as the sun rose above the horizon. Its warm rays clipped the ragged summits of the Cuillin Mountains and painted The Old Man of Storr in spectacular, radiant light. Such was the beauty of the moment I had to remind myself to press the shutter.


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6 Outdoor focus | spring 2017


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