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Llyn Padarn Panorama #1

Panoramic image of Llyn Padarn, looking southeast to the mountains of the Snowdon Range in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales

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The story behind this image

Surely one of the jewels in the Snowdonia National Park, this is the beautiful Llyn Padarn.

Photographed towards the end of the day, with the warm, golden light of sunset painting the mountains of the Snowdon range as they reflected in the perfect stillness of the waters, this was a special time.

It seemed that the world was holding its breath, on pause, waiting for the onset of night.

With the light fading fast I had to be pretty quick in setting up my camera and taking the multiple overlapping frames required to make this panorama from one of my favourite viewpoints right at the end of the lake, and just a few minutes after I'd completed the shoot the sun dipped below the horizon behind me and the whole scene turned to grey.

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Image data

Filename - llyn padarn panorama 01.jpg

Camera - Canon 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm

Exposure - 1/8 sec @ f11, ISO100

Filters - 2 stop neutral density graduated filter used to balance the exposure between the landscape and its reflection

Location - Llyn Padarn, Snowdonia National Park, North Wales

This image - 1200x356px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and PhotoShop CC

Comments - Panoramic image made by stitching multiple exposures