Its early on a Monday morning, I have driven down to Snowdonia again to take a walk along the Snowdon Miners track. Driving up towards Pen-y-pass the light is looking very good with blue sky and thick cloud over the top of Snowdons peak, so a quick drive down to the view point carpark for a short drone flight.
It seems quite windy even this low , so I make this a very short 8 minute flight to get a couple of panorama images.
Looking into the Snowdon Horseshoe.
a phone shot
9 frame drone panorama
Now to drive up to the Pen-y-pass car park, and pay the extortionate £10 to park!
Taking the Miners track out of the car park ,which is a nice easy walk along to the Llyn Lydaw lakes which is the location I want to fly today, there is a nice ruined building which should look good from the air, But as I walk along this path the wind is increasing substantially and could well ruin my plan!
There is not much snow left unfortunately.
I have reached the lake , it is blowing a gale up here now.
The edge of the right hand lake is frozen over with some snow cover , so I shoot this image with the canon 5dsr
As I walk around the lake there is a large waterfall coming down from below Crib Goch, and more importantly it is sheltered from the worst of the wind so I can get the drone up for a few images.
Llyn Lydaw
Now for the waterfall, I have put a nd16 filter on to block light entering the camera to slow the shutter speed down, so I can experiment with longer exposures to blur the water
This is a 5 frame Vertorama shot at f8 and 1/6 th second exposure.
crop from above image
The wind is too strong to fly out over the lake to get shots of the ruins today unfortunately, so I will carry on walking a bit further to see what its like round the corner heading towards Glaslyn.
This rock face is covered in a thick layer of ice!
Back down at the lake, a shot of the ruins , best I can do today.
Walking back round the lake and crossing the causeway between the lakes I have stopped to look back up at Crib Goch, the sun has broken through the clouds and illuminating the ground in front of me. so a couple of quick handheld dslr images.
Time to head back to the car , The cloud base has lowered considerably over the summit and is heading this way.
But ahead of me, the sun is lighting up the landscape and as I have come around the corner the wind is not so bad, so I will risk a short flight to get an image or two.
This is a four image merge.
And as I walk back to the car park the sun is illuminating Capel Curig in the distance , using the 100-400mm L lens I managed this image.
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