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Staple Island : petite île rocheuse, ou skerry, qui fait partie du groupe extérieur des îles Farne dans le Northumberland, en Angleterre/Staple Island: a small rocky island, or skerry, that is one of the Outer Group of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England.
We visited for the first time a few weeks ago on a circular hike taking in Roos Tor and White Tor as well. It was one of those days which promised sunshine and decent temperatures but Dartmoor does have its own micro-climate and arriving at the car park we were greeted by storm-like gusts. Of course we did not pack anything for colder or windy weather so the first half of the walk I tried to convince the rest of the family that it will get better at some point - thankfully it eventually did and while we could not really enjoy the magnificent rock formations of Great Staple Tor for very long (that was still part of the windy and chilly parts of the walk), the rest of the walk provided some fabulous locations and memories!
For anyone interested, here a video of the entire walk (including terrible sound from the wind): youtu.be/PZxhDGSQlUk
One from Great Staple Tor when Jim and I went up to photograph the Neowise Comet.
We'd gone up before sunset and spent a little while getting a few shots around the area while we were waiting for it to get dark enough to shoot the comet.
Last one from my trip up to Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor last Sunday evening.
This was taken just as I was getting ready to pack up for the evening, I saw the sun hitting the horizon and fired off one more shot with the Western stack of the tor as my focal point.
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Another shot from Great Staple Tor but this shot was taken a week before the shot I posted yesterday.
I was up there looking for different compositions and as the sun was setting it cast a lovely red glow over the rocks.
First official shot of 2019 is one from a new year's day trip up to Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor.
I'd originally wanted to head up in the morning but there was thick low cloud all over the moors so I left it until the afternoon when luckily, the cloud cleared a bit and gave some gorgeous side light on the tor. Unfortunately, the sunset I was hoping for never happened but I still think this photo gives off enough drama.
I'm doing a year long feature for Dartmoor Magazine which is due out in 2020, and I've picked this tor as my favourite tor. So, I couldn't think of a better way to kick off the year than with a visit up to Dartmoor to start my project.
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After shooting various pens and pencils I was drawn (see what I did there) to an old box of simple staples.
My MacBook Pro making its usual appearance to create the reflections.
HMM!
Great Staple Tor
Another shot from a morning at Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor a few weeks ago.
I was hoping for a bit more high cloud in the sky to give off those lovely pink colours, but as the weather report lied to me we ended up with just a few bits hanging around.
I get a lot of people asking me who placed the rocks like this, and without boring everyone with a science lesson, I've found a great fact sheet with the whole process of how they were formed. You can find it here...
www.dartmoor.gov.uk/…/pdf_f…/0008/814481/lab-tors.pdf
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Focus stack (44 images). Shot with two off-camera strobes (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella. Flash B, Camera fight, 45 degrees, 45 degrees above table, modified with MagMod MagSnoot, fully extended. White reflector (8 x 10 inch camera left, perpendicular to subject.
Shot for Macro Mondays - fastener
Subject (ceiling tile staples), 14mm (h) x 10,5 mm (w) x 34 mm (l, front, 48.7 mm rear)
From a lovely hike last weekend. The tor is one of a few we came across on the route, as well as a prehistoric village and loads of wild ponies!
One of the strange rock formations scattered on Dartmoor, Great Staple Tor at sunset.
This is a 67 second exposure using the Lee Big stopper filter. In the great company of Jed Langdon.
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Looking south towards Underhill Lane and Staple Hill. On the edge of the Blackdown Hills in Somerset.
For Macro Mondays - Stationery.
Speedlight with small rectangular diffuser as background scrim. Speedlight with snoot and Steel Green gel from left. 105 subs processed in Zerene Stacker.
1.625 inches in greatest dimension.
Inspired by a similar concept... I "borrowed" 5000 staples from work... Plus my present boredom lead to this... Making a scene of Staple Skyscrapers haha. On a side note... That peak dead center of this image is actually my place of employment... That's how close I live to where I work haha.
A year round staple in my pantry is cranberry sauce; made with fresh berries (in season soon!), grated ginger, orange juice, cinnamon and half the recommended amount of sugar.
This tangy sauce compliments poultry like none other. :-)
Macro Mondays, subject: embossed
Project 365-247