Jeremy Walker

Jeremy has been producing landscape images for over 25 years. He looks to use the light at its optimum to create elegant images with impact, mood and drama. To view his work and see details of his workshops see www.jeremywalker.co.uk

I LIVE for mornings where a thin veil of mist floats serenely across the landscape or partially hides trees with beams of golden sunlight punctuating the scene. This was not one of those mornings. I ventured out with high hopes – but the fog was too thick for the sun

to pierce it and the landscape was cloaked in a drab grey.

I abandoned the low-lying landscape and headed up into the hills, up into a thicker, denser bank of fog. Plan B was to attempt to use the fog without the shafts of light that I had hoped for, to try to create an image of mood and drama without the golden colours of sunrise.

I have known about these woods for years but have never shot them. I have recced them but have never been overly inspired by them, until this particular morning. The fog hung silently about the trees, giving a ghostly, ethereal quality to the scene, the weak sunlight backlighting the woods helping to give the image depth. I instinctively knew I had an image that, with careful post production, would be very worthy of framing and a place on my wall.