{"id":352,"date":"2009-05-22T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edgeofthewild.co.uk\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:41:04","slug":"i-guess-im-a-romantic-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edgeofthewild.co.uk\/2009\/05\/i-guess-im-a-romantic-at-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess I’m a Romantic at heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in the Lake District at the moment and the weather is decidedly un-May-like, generally made up of uninspiring light interspersed between rain showers. Maybe not ideal conditions for landscape photography, but this got me thinking about these “ideal” conditions and what we mean by this.<\/p>\n

I often feel that many landscape photographers are preoccupied with calm conditions and “golden hour” light, to the exclusion of anything else. There are so many images of colourful sunrises and mountains reflected in lakes. This isn’t the nature I know. The nature I love is dark, exciting, wild and just a little bit untamed.<\/p>\n

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I’m in the Lake District at the moment and the weather is decidedly un-May-like, generally made up of uninspiring light interspersed between rain showers. Maybe not ideal conditions for landscape photography, but this got me thinking about these “ideal” conditions and what we mean by this. I often feel that many landscape photographers are preoccupied… Continue reading I guess I’m a Romantic at heart<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/edgeofthewild.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/RG-20090520-032.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":562,"url":"https:\/\/edgeofthewild.co.uk\/2010\/12\/scotland-the-wild-places\/","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":0},"title":"Scotland : The Wild Places","date":"Wednesday 22 December 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of a long single-track road on Skye is a tiny fishing village called Elgol and a small beach where every landscape photographer in Britain\u2014and these days they are legion\u2014will, it seems, eventually stand. I've done it myself. Twice. 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