Sunset Hunted

Well I got back in one piece from the night hike, although we did get a little lost (almost came down in the wrong valley!), had good fun and managed to get a few nice shots of the sun setting. We started out from the Lamb (local pub) and headed off in our usually direction, straight up to Cwm Lickey. We stopped here so I could get a few shots with my Mamiya and digital. Next we walked a little further before going straight up the side of the valley, this was quite hard going but we made it after a few stops. We then headed for the spot we were going to set up at to shot the sun setting which involved going right through a herd of sheep (the smell produce by such a gathering is almost indescribable), needless to say on the way back we walked around this lot.

It wasn’t the best sunset I have seen as the clouds obscured the sun just before it hit the horizon but we had some nice colours and the haze/pollution made the sun look huge as it was setting. The temperature dropped severely when the sun disappeared behind the hills, we didn’t stick around long so we could get our body temperatures back up.

Halfway back things got very dark and the head torches came in very handy. This is where we got lost as it is very hard to tell exactly where you are when you can’t see! Instead of walking around the line of the valley and coming down from the other side of Cwm Lickey we went across the top of the mountain by accident and ended up coming down round about where we went up; a slight mistake but it all worked out in the end.

When we got back to Cwm Lickey we ‘set up camp’, myself and Alex went to gather some wood and we started a small camp fire. While we were here I managed to get some really nice long exposure shots of the lake which all came out orange due to the pollution coming up from Pontypool.

I developed the roll of film that I took on the trip and they seem to have come out quite nicely, I’ll scan some an post one or two at a later date.

Here is a link to the full gallery of shots I took that evening.