{"id":2822,"date":"2013-01-30T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2013-01-30T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:57:33","slug":"ryers-down-as-the-snow-cleared-gower-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"Ryer&#8217;s Down as the snow cleared, Gower Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2819\" title=\"3 trees, Ryers Down, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1387.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1387-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1387-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After leaving Cefn Bryn and having a bite to eat in the Greyhound Inn in Oldwalls, the weather really closed in, with the light getting flatter and greyer all the time. By now I knew that the images would need to be in black and white as the snow was much patchier and starting to melt. I was hoping to get some last rays of light as the sun set, but nothing seemed to happen. A patch of colour did open up amongst the grey clouds, but bizarrely it was in the completely opposite direction from where the sun was setting. I couldn&#8217;t see how any sunlight could get there through the clouds and in the end decided that it was a reflection of the street lighting in Llanelli and Burry Port.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2818\" title=\"Snow &amp; Trees, Ryers Down, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1385.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1385-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1385-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the colour in the sky wasn&#8217;t strong enough to warrant keeping the colour in the above image. I was initially attracted to the patterns of the branches against the grey sky (see image below) but then got intrigued by the snow left on the tree trunks. I always find woodland quite a visually chaotic place, so trying to isolate a pleasing image was proving difficult. I&#8217;m still not sure from looking at either of these to images that I really captured what caught my eye in the first place. I gave it a good go with lenses from 16mm to 500mm, but none really totally captured the scene as I visualised it at the time. It may be one of those times where what I saw in my mind&#8217;s eye just wasn&#8217;t possible photographically.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817\" title=\"Branch Pattern, Ryers Down, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1370.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1370-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ryers-Down20130119_DSC1370-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving Cefn Bryn and having a bite to eat in the Greyhound Inn in Oldwalls, the weather really closed in, with the light getting flatter and greyer all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}