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Another shot from Sunday evening at Sharrow Point, this time I’d moved away from the beach and down towards the rocks on the headland. A 10-stop filter was used to get a long exposure to smooth out the water, though I think a longer exposure might have been better.
We had a lovely sighting of a Somali Ostrich couple and their charge. Ostriches tend to lay their eggs and leave them with a caretaker couple who hatch the whole brood and look after them as one large family. Here the male is pecking at something on the ground.
Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 135mm F5.6, 1/640 ISO 500
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My second shot from Tuesday, near to The Cheesewring… still searching for new compositions in the area!
It seems I’ve hardly been out recently so I made the effort to get up for sunrise on Thursday and made a stop at Haytor on my way into the office… sunrise is starting to get a little early for my liking!
This lone tree at the top of a hill made for a nice simple photo with few distractions. The Barley will soon be cropped so I will revisit this location to see what changes happen during the next couple of Seasons.
This photo was part of a series of photos I took in the London Underground last week. It's not an area I know well at all so I got a day ticket and purely jumped on and off when I had seen something I wanted to photograph. This station has not long opened and was taken on route to Battersea, the next stop on this line.
Photo was taken with the 10 year old Olympus E-M10 II, and a DJI 15mm F1.7 lens which is almost identical to the Panasonic Leica 15mm.
Dungeness was a location I came across a few years back whilst cycling around the Kent coastline. It's an odd little Hamlet as it is located next to a Nuclear Power Station and is all on Shingle. The houses are all of different construction types with many of them having no neighbours for up to 1/4 mile and a stunning Sea view.
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
This year was my second visit to the Northumberland. This wonderful Seascape can be seen on the walk from Craster Village up to Dunstanburgh Castle.
Taken on my Olympus E-M10 II and Olympus 12-45 F4 Pro.
After 5 weeks of feeling rubbish I finally made a trip out on Sunday morning. The weather wasn’t looking overly promising so I popped to my local beach and thankfully the sunrise was better than expected. By 9am the clouds had firmly taken hold, but it was a beautiful way to start the day!
After the Milky Way shoot on Friday evening (and one too many drinks!) I managed to drag myself out of bed for a sunrise shoot... despite the weather forecast the wind had still not died down and there were some really big waves still pounding the coast... it's scary to think that these are the sort of conditions that the Lifeboat Crew would have to go out in!
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com.
Organization: Marebeth Gromer
My sunset-sense was tingling last night after work so I made a dash to Polhawn beach, this is at the far end of Whitsand Bay so the sun still sets over the sea instead of behind the cliff at this time of year… I’m glad I did as it really was a treat with some beautiful pinky tones in the sky after the sun had dipped below the horizon.
I'm unsure if the history of this boat but it looks long past it's best. Surprisingly, it still has an old engine, but it's also looks a tad past it's optimum.
Another shot from Thursday morning at Haytor, after sunrise the clouds rolled in and started casting shadows around the landscape… I was watching the nearby Tor which I’m not sure of the name of (possibly Black Hill if someone knows, please correct me!) and waited until it was lit up, highlighting it against the dark hills and clouds beyond. I also chose a different processing style to normal to emphasise the mood of the moor.
I'm back after our holiday in Tuscany, so I'll be taking a little diversion from my usual Westcountry images for a few days. Starting with a little gem I discovered via shothotspot.com on the shores of Lago di Massaciuccoli.
Something a little different from Kynance. I usually default to wide-angle but I’ve been trying to force myself to use a telephoto more and pick out interesting shapes in the landscape. Here I concentrated on one of the main stacks, keeping the smaller stacks as anchors to the shot, and I’ve deliberately gone for a muted colour palette to make the sea disappear in the distance.
A return to Trebarwith today, from earlier in the evening before the sky really took light. I love the shapes that the pools make in the sand as the water receeds!
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
A more subdued shot for today, the Church of St Winwaloe which is found near Gunwalloe. I saw an image of this church a while ago and promptly forgot about it, only to remember when scouring Google maps for inspiration over the weekend. It was a dull evening, but I actually think this was kind of fitting for the subject matter. I really wanted to make sure you could see the beach next to the church, but the trees that surround the grounds make it hard to get them both in from a lower level so I climbed the back to get a view from higher up. It’s amazing to think that the building has survived in such an exposed location for so many centuries.
I made a quick dash to the beach last night for sunset, but as it wasn’t looking terribly promising I decided to take a look at the beach next to Sharrow Point. This used to be one of my favourite spots for an easy evening jaunt but unfortunately it’s been closed for a few years due to unstable cliffs… as it’s been so long since my last visit I thought I’d have a look and see if anything had changed and it’s finally open again! The tide was a little high so I couldn’t venture too far but I’m glad this little beach is finally back on the menu!
Quick photography opportunity at the end of the Bank Holiday weekend, led me local to home along one of the Bridges over looking the M40 at Blue Hour. I took a few shots during the evening but this was one of my favourites.
One from the fantastic sunset we had at Trebarwith a few weeks ago, one that we nearly missed because the afterglow was so long after the sun had disappeared!
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
My first trip to Porth Nanven, somewhere I’ve been wanting to get to for a long time! I knew the conditions were not going to be ideal as the tide was coming it and high-tide was due not long after sunset but it’s not too often I get this deep into Cornwall so I decided to make the trip.
When I arrived I was surprised by the amount of seaweed on the beach, this made it really tricky to get down to the shore as you couldn’t tell where the rocks were… each footstep sent your foot sliding left or right as the seaweed slipped over the boulders. After a few minutes of clambering I made it over to the rocks with enough time to get a few shots of the famous rocks, which have earned it the nick-name “Dinosaur Egg Beach”.
All too soon I was forced to retreat and bumped into Andrew Hocking, another local photographer who told me about the next beach over which is also worth a look, even if it is tricky to get to… it turns out I was already following him on Flickr and he was following me, I would recommend looking out for his work!
Olympus E-M5ii m.zuiko 12mm F2.0. Raw file (.ORF) processed in Lightroom, using the new function of 'denoiseAI' under the detail option in the develop module. This lifts M4/3 (and other) raw files into another level, giving smooth noiseless images of high quality. A gamechanger for M4/3 users.
We've been down to The Lizard for the weekend and I started Friday evening by taking a trip to Kynanace Cove.
When I arrived I was a little taken aback, I’ve never seen to many photographers there! Around 10 or so people all parked in my favourite spot and jostling for position, I’m guessing they were on a guided tour as there was a small mini-bus in the car park. Instead of joining the crowd I headed closer to the main rocks to get a simple shot of the iconic location, also trying some other alternatives by zooming in on specific parts.
Unfortunately there wasn’t much cloud action but the colours in the sky was pleasant by itself.
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
Organization: Capitol City Shooters
As part of a recent evening at the Liskeard Camera Club we’d had a tribute evening to Peter Levers, a long standing member and very talented photographer who sadly passed away recently. One of his stand-out images for me was a shot from Colliford Lake with some of the trees poking through the water and I thought I’d try and find the location. I’d discussed the image with Jon who gave me some pointers and tonight I ventured out.
Instead of the beautiful light that I’d experienced on the way there, of course it decided to start tipping it down after I’d walked half-way around the lake… so there I was, standing in the pouring rain, surrounded by sheep, while taking pictures of some sticks in water… the joys of being a landscape photographer!
It was at this point that I realised that I’d also lost my lens cap (partly due to not following the lens-cap rule… always putting your lens cap in the same place when not in use) and knowing how ridiculously expensive they are for what is just a piece of plastic I also spent 10 minutes retracing my steps in the rain and eventually found it in the mud!
These are not the trees from Peter’s image, I will investigate further as they may depend on the water level, but I’m still happy with the final image.