The Clywdian mountains, just a few minutes away from my home, have been rightly designated an Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
It's a real blessing to be able to look out of my bedroom window, check the weather, and drive for ten minutes to reach scenery like this.
This panoramic photo encompasses an almost 180ยบ field of view, and was taken late in the afternoon one stormy winter's day from halfway up the side of Foel Ffenli.
Stretching out below me was the Vale of Clwyd, with alternating bands of rain and sun racing across the valley towards me.
As you can see from the spots on the lens, the rain gave me and my camera a good soaking on the way through. But never mind, it was worth getting wet to be out in such gorgeous and dramatic light.
Swinging the camera around on my tripod from left to right, taking overlapped exposures as I went, the Clwydian range soon came into view, marching off towards the coast with the sunlight picking out the flanks of Moel Famau, the highest peak in the range and location of the now collapsed Jubilee Tower.
A few minutes later and the rain and cloud arrived in earnest from the west, signalling an end to the great light and time to pack up and head back down to the car and home for a good drying out of self and camera equipment.
Filename - vale of clwyd panorama 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/20sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Vale of Clwyd, North Wales
This image - 1200x262px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS5
Comments - Panorama stitched from separate overlapping exposures.
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