Bigland Tarn...
28th July 2010
In: Blog...
Yesterday evening, at Bigland Tarn, one of the hundreds of tarns dotted around the Lake District. Some are big - bigger than some of the lakes - others are tiny, just dots on the map. Many are named on Ordnance Survey maps (though the name of one, Innominate Tarn, means, confusingly ‘tarn with no name’); others are too insignificant to have a name at all. While some tarns are in dramatic upland locations, others, like Bigland, are more like village ponds, surrounded by trees and fields and grazing cattle.
For me, the drama of a scene is as likely to come from the light as from the location. I love these ‘heavy-bottomed‘ clouds, and the way they give an equally ‘heavy‘ reflection in the (almost) still water. The light is different every time... which is why it can be worth going back, again and again, to familiar places, to see how they look. Bigland Tarn is just a short drive away, beyond the southern tip of Lake Windermere.
For me, the drama of a scene is as likely to come from the light as from the location. I love these ‘heavy-bottomed‘ clouds, and the way they give an equally ‘heavy‘ reflection in the (almost) still water. The light is different every time... which is why it can be worth going back, again and again, to familiar places, to see how they look. Bigland Tarn is just a short drive away, beyond the southern tip of Lake Windermere.
