I feel like I've been slacking recently. No image of the week post last week and no new photographs for over 2 weeks. Unfortunately I have been busy with admin for most of this month; VAT return, license quotes, raising/chasing invoices, business plans etc. None of this is very exciting and after a while even keywording & captioning images looks like fun!
So to this weeks image. I've been revisiting old images recently while researching possible images to illustrate a book I am considering writing when I came across this one of King's Tor in Dartmoor National Park near the hamlet of Merrivale. Photographed on St Valentines day a few years ago, this was not the picture I had set out to make.
I had set off early with the hope of catching dawn light at the ancient Merrivale stone rows nearby. I arrived to find Dartmoor shrouded in thick fog and receiving a generous helping of heavy rain. I spent most of the morning exploring the surrounding landscape in an attempt to identify future photographs. This was not that easy given I could only see a few yards so I had to guess at what features lay beyond the fog but it kept me amused for long enough. I recall my wife called at one point to ask how I was (it was St Valentines day after all). “Wet”, was my response.
I found myself on King's Tor when the weather quite unexpectedly started to break and in a very short space of time the air had cleared and I was confronted with the scene you see in this picture. By the time I had set-up my composition patches of sunlight were streaking over the landscape.
You can make out a raised track across the picture about one third of the way down the picture complete with a small bridge. This is the remains of the old Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway that closed in 1956. This particular section once ran from Princetown to Yelverton and loops round King's Tor to reach the granite quarry works that once operated here. Remaining sections of railway now make up part of the Dartmoor Way trail.
This picture has remained a favourite of mine and just goes to show that the most wonderful colour can be found on Dartmoor, even on an apparently bleak winters day.
I had set off early with the hope of catching dawn light at the ancient Merrivale stone rows nearby. I arrived to find Dartmoor shrouded in thick fog and receiving a generous helping of heavy rain. I spent most of the morning exploring the surrounding landscape in an attempt to identify future photographs. This was not that easy given I could only see a few yards so I had to guess at what features lay beyond the fog but it kept me amused for long enough. I recall my wife called at one point to ask how I was (it was St Valentines day after all). “Wet”, was my response.
I found myself on King's Tor when the weather quite unexpectedly started to break and in a very short space of time the air had cleared and I was confronted with the scene you see in this picture. By the time I had set-up my composition patches of sunlight were streaking over the landscape.
You can make out a raised track across the picture about one third of the way down the picture complete with a small bridge. This is the remains of the old Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway that closed in 1956. This particular section once ran from Princetown to Yelverton and loops round King's Tor to reach the granite quarry works that once operated here. Remaining sections of railway now make up part of the Dartmoor Way trail.
This picture has remained a favourite of mine and just goes to show that the most wonderful colour can be found on Dartmoor, even on an apparently bleak winters day.
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