Jun 6
Excursion
I’m a member of the Ljusdal camera club (Ljusdals fotoklubb) and every year they make two excursions. For this spring excursion, it was my turn to be the guide. I decided to show them some of the nice places I found last year along the Voxnan river, so we started from Holmsjön and then made our way back and stopped at the Skalhålet ravine. 
I’ve only been there once and it was raining then, which made it difficult to move around on the lichen covered cliffs (very very slippery when wet). So I didn’t get any pictures that time, and I didn’t actually get many pictures this time either. But I got a picture, so at least I now have some documentation of the place. It’s just not very photogenic, but interesting enough to see. We don’t have a lot of ravines around here.
I had planned the excursion so that the last stop would be the Svansjöbäcken brook. Very simple reason – I figured that nobody will want to do the difficult hike down along the brook so everyone can leave when they want to, 
while I can stay as long as I want to! The weather was overcast and this was actually the first time I’ve been there in completely overcast weather. Otherwise it’s a difficult place during the day, because everything will be backlit. Normally you want to shoot running water looking upstream, and this means that you’ll have the sun on your face unless you get there early in the morning or late in the evening. The cliffs and forest surrounding the brook are also photogenic but somewhat difficult in sunny weather, so I could finally take some forest pictures today.
I think it was a good day out, I hope that the other club members enjoyed it! Although I must say they left a bit quickly from Svansjöbäcken… I think I should’ve warned them about the terrain, I didn’t think how difficult it will be for someone who is not used to it!
4 comments
Sounds like a nice trip! Is Lars Hägglund still active? He was a member in Dellenbygdens Fotoklubb when I started with photography back in ’84… They were two from Ljusdal then, but I’ve forgotten the other ones name. Sharp b/w copyists as I remember, while I was a hopeless beginner.
Nice composition in the creek pic! Good depth thanks to the balance between fore- and background. You’re getting the hang of it!
Oh most definitely Lars is still in the club. I must confess though that I have trouble with names so I’m not entirely sure who is who.
First one, thumbs up! Pola and little warming did the trick? -Or did you have your Moose-pola?
I wouldn’t dare to shoot waterfalls without the Moose polariser! …or without any other polariser, for that matter. The only pol filter I have is the Moose pol.