So one evening I took a stroll along the Derwentwater shore with my son prior to going to the lakeside theatre to see a lovely production of the 18th century restoration play, She Stoops to Conquer. And it was a chill, damp and blustery evening yet with the clouds still high enough to leave the top of Catbells clear. And the resultant photos were distinctly lacklustre. And though I could see potential in thephoto nothing I could do seemed to bring out a satisfactory image … until I flipped it into black & white. The result is very retro, like old postcards, so a retro image before seeing a retro play. Hope you like it.
I decided to extend the original post by including the original un-photoshopped image. It looks like exactly as it was, damp and dismal, yet something about the image appealed. Cropping out most of the pebbly lake shore (dull) helped and then, as above, experiment to see what worked and what didn’t; and most things didn’t work. The lesson is persistence and trusting your instincts.
