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Anywhere there's running water there's an opportunity for an unusual photograph.
Use a fast shutter speed and you can freeze droplets or spray in mid whoosh, or, as I did here at the run-off from Llyn Geirionydd in Snowdonia, use a slow shutter speed to create swirling abstract of form and colour.
The day was bright and overcast, which is great for taking pictures of moving water as when the sun is out the wave crests in the stream can easily over-expose into unsighly white blobs.
Even so, I needed to fit my polarising filter to get the best from this image, by both killing any glaring reflections on the rock and enhancing the colours in the water.
A few experiments with shutter speeds followed until I had the desired amount of blurry detail, and then it was back to the car and on to the next North Wales beauty spot for another dose of glorious scenery.
Filename - river rock 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 1/15sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Llyn Geirionydd, Snowdonia
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Polarising filter used to remove glare.
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