An Early Start

Was lucky enough to be invited to join two friend for an early morning shoot on plymouth Hoe this morning.  The light was lovely - and I had a couple of hours of happy snapping!

Marmite images!!  You will either like them - or not!!

Have to wait now for the next high tide and nice weather!!  Fingers crossed.

Stumbling About in the Dark - Again!!

A couple of nights ago, a friend and I spent an afternoon and evening out on Dartmoor.  Weather was still lovely - and fearing rain may start any day soon - we decided to take our big, 18 million candle power torches for a walk!

We left home at 4.00pm.  Stopped for a quick bite to eat in Tavistock - then headed out to a location to try for a sunset before the serious business started.

Despite careful research, the location we decided on didn't really prove that successful.  The sun was too far over to the left!  Still - we made the best of it!

                             

                             Just before the sun set.  Some lovely clouds in the sky.

                   

And this is what should have appeared behind Brentor Church!

At about 8.00pm, we packed up and headed for our next location - Post Bridge in the middle of Dartmoor, where there is a lovely old clapper bridge.  Trouble was - now it was dark - and despite having our big, powerful torches, we still had to stumble about in the dark trying to find the best place to put up tripods, frame up the shot and focus! It all took time!  Eventually, we did it - and managed to take about half a dozen shots before it was 11.00pm, and we were cold and exhausted!

Was it worth it?  I'll let you decide.

In Colour . . . 

. . . . and converted to monochrome.

Porlock

Three of us from Ivybridge CC took a trip to Porlock in search of barn surrounded by dead trees!  Sounds easy, doesn't it?

Took two and a half hours to get there - then a further hour tramping across mud flats searching, searching, searching!

Eventually, by dint of asking walkers coming in the other direction where the mythical barn and dead trees were - we found it!

Could have had a better sky - and the light was very flat.  Therefore, it had to be a monochrome effort!
Was it worth the effort?

I'll leave it up to you to decide!

Found at last - the barn surrounded by dead trees!

Just caught my eye!

Why all the dead trees?  Well - the sea broached the shingle sea defences a few years ago, and a decision was made to leave well alone - and so all the trees died from sea water poisoning!