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The skies looked dark with small gaps for the sunlight to team through. It was late evening – about 8pm and very windy. Handholding the 100-400mm zoom lens was difficult when the wind gusted. I don’t have a 77mm polarising filter, so the images quite bland when I initially looked at them on the computer. Once I adjusted the curves in Photoshop and took down the mid tones I saw some surprising detail.

I deliberately pushed the tones to create dark areas with high contrast; somehow I always seem to be drawn to high contrast images. Maybe as an amateur I’m still into over exaggerating everything?

The images were taken at F16-20 on a Canon EOS 350D at ISO 100. The lens was my favourite EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens.

As an amateur photographer I’m operating under the (misguided?) belief that I should be able to make just about any subject interesting. Time will tell …