A couple of months before New Year I decided that to improve my physical health I would start walking. Getting up an hour or so before work (working from home) and putting on my walking boots is now my daily routine. Most of the time I have been taking out my Sony A7iii and having fun with my few vintage lenses, usually a Helios 135mm f2.8 and a 50mm f1.8 Super Takumar. Both great vintage lenses that adapt well to mirrorless cameras and with bags of character. The above shot is of a row of middle aged Oak trees growing on the side of a dismantled railway embankment. These parts of the dismantled railway are fenced off but it still has a well trodden path with bootprints, so I'm not the only person going off road.
Much of the nature trail is centred around the old railway cutting and some parts are just too overgrown with brambles and bracken to even think about wading through but in the right conditions of mist and 20 minutes before sunrise the blue hue comes through. Now I'm glued to the weather reports for more misty conditions to grab my camera.
This part of my Morning walk is called Ashington Cutting and is a popular route for dog walkers but the walkway is beginning to rot away. It's snaking shape always catches my eye but have always found it a bit difficult to get a good composition. I think that as the foliage has died back it has revealed a better angle. Shot with the Helios 135mm f2.8 at f2.8 iso 400. 2 minutes before sunrise.
