(27 Oct 2014, 9:57 am)Marcus wrote One problem I faced when photographing at Durham earlier on was the fact that the sun was going in and out on it's own terms, so one photo would look decent enough to upload, then the next I couldn't even identify it!Welcome to the wonderful world of photography!
A combo I really love in photographs is dark threatening skies behind the subject (ie bus/train/whatever), with beaming sunlight behind the photographer. Quite rare to get that combo though - but the colours tend to come out lovely.