Most landscape photographs are made, developed, inspired what have you ,on a basis of “being in the right place at the right time”. As mentioned in the “About” section ,there is another additional piece of advice, that “Chance favours the prepared mind” that Louise Pasteur stated and Ancell Adams adopted to photography.
This is the day where these to proverbs came together in a glorious golden hour, or to be accurate 4 minutes!
The image is a series of 4 images stitched together over a few seconds. Capturing the luminous glow of Bowfell in the speedily setting sun.
Although I had a medium format camera with me at the time, it didn’t allow be to capture the power the wider vista afforded me. It’s long been one of my most memorable photographic moments (see accompanying YouTube short movie of the moment).