Framedlight

The last morning of my stay in Hallagena Farm I walked out onto Lady Down Moor and took some photos of sunrise. I used a 200mm lens and the sun came up as a great glowing ball against a rather sombre sky. There was a slight mist hanging in the shallow valleys.   

The following morning I woke up just before dawn, but on putting my head out the window realised that the sky was clear and not really worth the effort of getting out of bed, probably because I was rather tired from the day before. I should have done more research on where to go for  sunrise shots, but north west Cornwall does face, sort of west so I thought making the effort at the end of the day was probably better. We did go for a walk on the moor first thing and then set out for Port Quin, which was the closest beach as the fabled crow flies. The tide was in and the beach was being commandeered by a boat that was being tractored off. After it had gone I took a picture of the rather lovely warm coloured rocks and then we drove south to a little place called Pentireglaze, just north of Polzeath. Here we parked in a National Trust car park and walked up the peninsula to Rumps Point, named as there are two round buttocky hills at the top. The sky remained obst...

Recently I have had 3 weeks on my own while Alan went on a cycle extravaganza in Mallorca. I thought it would be exciting to spend a week in Cornwall, just myself, the dog and the camera. And so I booked a cottage, not right on the coast but around 15 miles inland near St Breward on the very south fringe of Bodmin Moor. I stayed in a little group of holiday cottages situated on a farm, Hallagenna, where apparently the black horse of Lloyds bank fame had been raised. This backed on to a piece of moorland known as Lady Down Moor. Here I stayed for 6 nights, leaving on the Friday so that I could join Alan in Mallorca for his final week. I was lucky with the weather, too lucky as it turned out as most days there was little cloud cover. Photographers are never happy with the amount of cloud they get! The first morning I was up early and out on the moor to get the sunrise (around 6.40am). I did this most mornings and basically got almost the same pictures as the weather conditions d...