Wet and Windy Wainwright Walkies

Today I set off on a walk with Bec and her boyfriend's dog Korah. The forecast was not set to be particularly good, very windy, but supposedly improving as the afternoon went on. I packed Niki into a very waterproof bag (the kind that should still be ok if you threw it in a lake), just in case the weather cleared enough to take some snaps.

 We chose a walk near Ullswater up a couple of Wainwright hills as Bec is trying to check them all off (and I admit I'm keeping a tally of how many I've done too). About half way up Arnison Crag, we stopped for a breather and noticed a rather stunning rainbow which stretched right across the lake. We quickly dug in our bags for our cameras so try and capture the moment. Below I tried editting my picture with the selective colour mode on my camera to see if I could get the rainbow to stand out. The problem I found was that the way my camera works, if I selected the red in the rainbow, it would show all the places in the picture which were coloured red, and then if you select yellow it will pick out all the yellows in the whole picture. By the time you've gone through every colour in the rainbow, then you don't have a selective colour photo anymore! This was the best version I managed to get.

Here is Korah. It was quite difficult to get her to stand still for a photograph!

 Bec tried enticing her with a biscuit so that she'd look in my direction and stand still.

 The picture below is my favourite one of her, I like how she stands out from the background, but you can still see that she;s up in the mountains.

 Pictured here is Arnison Crag, our first Wainwright, taken from our way down Birks, which was our second and final Wainwright of the day. Above is the original picture, straight from the camera. Below is an editted version of the same picture. I editted it on 'microsoft office picture manager' which is just the program that was already on my computer. It doesn't have many different options for editing the snaps, but I played around until I got this which I think looks much better than the original.