Photo Journal
19th January // Scramble and Sunset
Glyder Fawr // N53.100 W-4.030
This was one of them evenings where you have to just head out into the mountains against your better judgement and trust the forecast. I mean lets be honest, that’s an extremely common occurrence whenever I’m going into the mountains, but being able to see the mountains from my home there is a certain level of certainty you get that foster your doubts when you can see them covered in clouds.
But of course, who am I to doubt weather models when all I see is a snapshot of now. I can see the wind direction and the oncoming slate of clouds, but how they will interact with the mountains is beyond my comprehension.
I must admit it was incredibly grey as I scrambled to the top of Glyder Fach, and the particular photo I had envisioned from it’s summit with the strangle rock pimples of Glyder Fawr, Castell Y Gwynt and Yr Wyddfa set against the setting cloud seemed unachievable when I was still inside the cloud when I reached the summit.
With a better chance of a view (due to being the higher summit) I continued on to Glyder Fawr where to my now surprise the clouds started to clear.
With only 30 minutes until sunset I started to regret my decisions to move as the spot where I wanted to take the photo from was now clear.
In the end I was pretty happy with my final position and there is something to be said about taking a photo from somewhere new and unpredictable rather than a honeypot spot, as I’m sure that photo has been taken many times and lacks any sort of personality or improvisation, which is the method I usually enjoy taking photos with the most. Though to say this was the case here is somewhat of a lie as the day before I had taken the same photo, just in the middle of the day under far less dramatic conditions.
