Aug 8
More Svartån
A couple of photographer friends came for a visit, I had promised to show them my new favourite location at Svartån. I think I may have raised the exceptions a little bit but judging by the number of pictures being taken, nobody was disappointed in any case! Since it hasn’t been raining in the last week, the water level had receded again so it was now possible to jump around on the cliffs and rocks to find new angles that I couldn’t access in my last two visits. 
The weather co-operated with us, initially it was sunshine but then it turned overcast (we even got rained on – I think I counted at least four drops, lol) so it was possible to use long shutter speeds to blur out the water.
The sun came out when we had reached the top of the rapids, so we drove to another location to see if we could get any sunset opportunities. The first place offered a few sunlit frames, but there was a bank of clouds in the horizon and the sun soon disappeared behind it. We checked out another small tarn anyway which in some other light should be nice, but late evening in overcast weather is not it so we wrapped up the day. A bit of an anticlimax maybe, but I don’t think anyone was particularly disappointed!
And now I see how you meant the panorama. Pretty cool! And the abstract is quite impressive just as well.
I am too lazy to go through my pics yet. We’ll see how they turned out later on next week
Isn’t it wonderful to be able to go back to a place many times to see and photograph it in all its moods! I particularly like the swirls captured by the long exposure in the first shot. I love when the camera picks up things that we can’t see ourselves.
Panorama looks cool even on tiny cell phone screen! Summer would be nice time to shoot long exposures but the light is usually the problem – too much of it