When I am out taking photographs I often find myself admiring the view, but focusing my camera on closer objects to build a photo. On this day the view from Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor National Park was stunning. With the rain having just stopped, there was a burst of amazing light across the Devon landscape. Read More
I had great plans for sunrise on Sunday morning, just like a large percentage of landscape photographers. With sunrise being at 5:10 am I knew that getting up at just before 3am would be really tough; especially as I find it really difficult to go to bed early. Read More
I think my love of Dartmoor national park has rubbed off on my sons, as well as photography. Both of them like to come to the moor with me to take photos nowadays. I took them with me to the Merrivale stones for the sunset. Read More
This is a photo of the path that leads up to Great Mis Tor on Dartmoor National Park. I liked how the water was running down the path; almost like it was a river bed, and how it leads the eye up to the tor beyond. I visualised it as a moody black and white when I took it and I think it suits it. Read More
I took this photo of Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor in January. I love the subtle tones throughout the scene as sunset transitions into twilight. I think the mood of the image is one of calm, which I think the vapour trail in the sky contributes to. I can’t wait to head back to Dartmoor I think that as a landscape photographer I could happily revisit it’s tors and stones time and time again.
This is a photo of the south standing stone at Merrivale looking towards the stone circle and beyond to the rest of Dartmoor just after sunrise. You can’t see the stone rows but they are just over the brow of the hill. I said in my last post about this stone about how I was trying to show a real sense of scale and space and a panoramic photo was the answer. Read More
After taking photos of the Merrivale Stones on Dartmoor I headed to Wistman’s Wood. After hiking to the wood it is quite odd to look around and see pretty much open space. The wood looks deceptively small and quite unimposing on the landscape of the moor as you approach it. Once you enter the threshold of the wood though it is as if you are setting foot into another world. The forest could be at home in a fantasy film with no effort whatsoever. Read More
This is a photo of the south standing stone at Merrivale with the stone circle in the background. Composition with this shot was quite challenging because I was trying to show a sense of scale in the standing stone against the horizon while showing the stone circle and trying to show the snow covered Great Mis Tor in the distance. Read More
I took this photo of the Merrivale stone rows on Dartmoor at sunrise this morning just as the sun peaked above the horizon towards North Hessary Tor. As the sun crept across the moor it made the stones turn really vibrant as they caught the sun. Although it looks really warm I can tell you that it was absolutely freezing and the wind was howling across the moor. Read More
I took this photo of Great Staple Tor during a visit to Dartmoor a few weeks ago long after the sun had made its’ way below the horizon. I realised that I take far too few landscape photographs in a portrait orientation and figured that I should start to do so a lot more, especially as I would like to get more images featured in magazines and other publications. Read More
