"The Paling of the Sky"

Thanks again to everybody to helped get my weird "pleasantly bonkers" (thanks for that Cameron!) circular fisheye image into the Spotlight, making my fourth in five days. And to all the new subscribers, too.

This river scene, is where the rivers Nadder and Avon meet, the building on the right is part of the Cathedral Close - I cloned out a surveillance camera - it didn't quite look the part...

It isn't sunrise poking through either, that glow is from distant street lights and I used the Nikkor 10-24mm again under this Weeping Willow Blip, was extremely popular at the time.

The soft light is bounced from the low humid clouds and the mauvy blues build up over the half minute exposure. The swollen river has smoothed to creamy silk whilst the levels are still extremely high - the object just sticking out is the top of a water height meter - normally you'd see several feet of it sticking out. I've forgotten what height is marked at the top, so long has it been hidden.

I had real difficulty as to where to crop. Some from the left but do I include the bank, or muddy foreshore, to be exact. In the end I left that in as well as all on the right. There's also some extra sharpening gone on, the lens is very good, but I think it looks a bit better bitingly sharp. Low contrast subjects sometimes just need a bit extra.

As usual, better details to be seen in 'large' - the L key.