I shouldn’t have complained about the light yesterday. Today was worse. And the wind was bad, too. Just the dullest circumstances possible for photographing the autumn colours, but I tried. Just needed to avoid having sky in the composition, or large areas of water. But one thing that works fine on days like these is long shutter speeds. So on with the polariser and ND64 and watch the 20 sec exposures smooth our those nasty wind movement details!
Today I found a new route for my local hikes in Loos. There’s a new road which provides me with a shortcut to Österhocklan east from the Eagle Mountain, I used the route already late last winter actually but I had no idea that it was passable during the other seasons. The road ends kinda in the middle of nowhere, but then you just have to cross over to the snowmobile trail, the trail is not all pleasant to walk on but it’s only a few hundred meters before you reach the bridge over the creek. And by bridge I mean the new bridge which is very solid under the foot, not this old bridge which has finally given in and split in two. And after that, you can take the road which leads back home via Loossjön. A nice 9 km trip in all, took me 4 hours today but it did include quite a few photo stops despite the less-than-photographic weather.
The best part of the whole thing was that I found a new tarn, it’s very close to the road but it’s kinda hidden behind a small hill so it’s not visible from the road. It was a total surprise, it felt like an oasis of wilderness with dead trees lining up the little lake and then forest all around that almost looked natural (=no obvious signs of logging). I’ll be back, light permitting!