Winter Sunlight near Flash

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I love the simplicity of this - "less is more...................difficult"

Posted by Teddi Coutts on Sun 24 May 22:07:02

Thanks for your kind comment, Teddi. This only took 40 minutes, and most of that was drying time.<br />The two washes for the sky, and another two for the foreground moor went in together, then a wait for those to dry, then the distant hills, more drying time, and finally the crisp central line of details.

Posted by David Whitehead on Mon 25 May 10:14:17

I live near flash,you have captured its bleak beauty very well.

Posted by Robert Mansell on Tue 26 May 11:54:50

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24/05/2015

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This is an attempt to capture that transitory light you see on the moors between the sun and rain. Flash is a remote village high up in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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