Framedlight

On the last afternoon of my last day in Cornwall we changed location from Bodmin Moor to the coast at Trebarwith Strand, where I was planning to undertake my evening photographic mission. I walked to the head of the beach where there is a slipway for boats, separated by rocks from a small fast stream which runs into the sea at this point. The tide was very high so that I could not access the sand at all and made do with a couple of intentional camera movement pictures, using a neutral density filter on the camera. To while away the time until sunset we went to Tintagel  where we had a cup of tea and cake and walked around the town a little, on a mission to find a pub advertising 'excaliburgers' where we had eaten with the kids many years ago. Excaliburgers we're not forthcoming, but King Arthur's car park was. Then it was back to Trebarwith where the light was beginning to lower. I took a series of pictures from a couple of locations until the sun san...

Walking on Rough Tor with Hettie, I mainly concentrated on 'normal' photography, but here are three pictures taken using intentional camera movement and multiple exposure techniques..

While I was on Bodmin Moor I also tried to make some intentional camera movement and multiple exposure photographs, using a neutral density filter to slow my shutter speed down.

As I explained in my last blog about my visit to the Hurlers, a couple of stone circles on Bodmin Moor, I took some photographs intending to produce them as black and white images. Here is the set of monochrome pictures. The last three pictures were taken using the Lensbaby lens which tilts so that it has a narrow range of focus.

Hettie and I had our sandwiches in the shadow of the mine workings and then walked to the further set of stone circles where I took a few pictures. After that we went back to the car and I drove into the village of Minions to find a cup of coffee. Only one place was open, a small general store which was selling a very limited range of goods. I had coffee on the grass outside the shop and then we drove back to the car park and waited till the start of sunset. I took some shots of the sun going down behind the mine workings. Then it was homeward bound again.

Finally the day dawned cloudy. In fact so cloudy that there was yet another non-existent sunrise as the rising orb could not penetrate the gloom! In fact, a good day for a visit to the moor! Armed with my book of shortish walks in North Cornwall we set our for Minions, a village on Bodmin Moor very close to a group of two stone circles known as the Hurlers, for obvious reasons. There is a large car park for tourists and I was dismayed to see that it was fairly full, not good for a Thursday morning out of season. Hettie and I equipped ourselves with camera gear, tripod and sandwiches and set out. 200 yards later Hettie pooped and we had to retrace our steps back to the dog bin in the car park. Hettie was unwilling to go back and then when we got to the bin unwilling to go forward. The upshot of which was I became a little short tempered and pulled on her lead too hard causing her to fall over (elderly dogs do not have great balance). This earned me bad looks and tuts from several eld...