Steve Pellatt
Stone me
Kings Tor, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK
This Saturday morning I set off for the Four Winds car park with the plan of trying to get a sunrise shot with Great Mis Tor in the photo. I arrived at the car park a bit before Blue Hour was to start and listened to the raindrops hitting the roof gazing out into darkness. The forecast was for it to dry up soon so me being me I thought a few more mins in the car in the dry before getting togged up was a good choice.
Whilst trying to decide when to brave the elements suddenly half the population of Devon decided to pull into the same car park…..(Ok not half the population but you get my drift). Various minibusses, vans and cars arrived with a lot of car doors slamming and banter going on. I was later told that some of the groups entered into the ‘Ten Tors’ challenge were doing some training. It also later transpired that the residents of Devon had been feeling cooped up due to all the bad weather and decided this weekend was THE weekend to make up for that!
As I was donning my waterproofs the crowd headed off in the direction I was planning to go. I really don’t enjoy crowds and having to ‘fight’ to get a shot as people wander around and gather for a talk in-shot. Hence I decided I’d head in the opposite direction hoping I’d not step into a bog nor end up as the breakfast for a certain Hound famous in these parts.
A few hundred metres from the car park I came across various lumps of granite and in glancing around the following arrangement which caught my eye. The clouds that were in the sky were beating a retreat from the crowd too but I just managed to get one colouring up before it fled completely. The ground part of the image is focus-stacked but the sky is a single shot as the cloud was moving.
If anyone knows if there is a particular reason for the occasional vertical ‘granite needles’ around here I’d be very interested to learn.
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Stone me
Kings Tor, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK
This Saturday morning I set off for the Four Winds car park with the plan of trying to get a sunrise shot with Great Mis Tor in the photo. I arrived at the car park a bit before Blue Hour was to start and listened to the raindrops hitting the roof gazing out into darkness. The forecast was for it to dry up soon so me being me I thought a few more mins in the car in the dry before getting togged up was a good choice.
Whilst trying to decide when to brave the elements suddenly half the population of Devon decided to pull into the same car park…..(Ok not half the population but you get my drift). Various minibusses, vans and cars arrived with a lot of car doors slamming and banter going on. I was later told that some of the groups entered into the ‘Ten Tors’ challenge were doing some training. It also later transpired that the residents of Devon had been feeling cooped up due to all the bad weather and decided this weekend was THE weekend to make up for that!
As I was donning my waterproofs the crowd headed off in the direction I was planning to go. I really don’t enjoy crowds and having to ‘fight’ to get a shot as people wander around and gather for a talk in-shot. Hence I decided I’d head in the opposite direction hoping I’d not step into a bog nor end up as the breakfast for a certain Hound famous in these parts.
A few hundred metres from the car park I came across various lumps of granite and in glancing around the following arrangement which caught my eye. The clouds that were in the sky were beating a retreat from the crowd too but I just managed to get one colouring up before it fled completely. The ground part of the image is focus-stacked but the sky is a single shot as the cloud was moving.
If anyone knows if there is a particular reason for the occasional vertical ‘granite needles’ around here I’d be very interested to learn.
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.