Dartmoor

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  • Dewerstone woods

    Dewerstone woods

    Full of moss covered rocks and twisted trees, this section of the river Plym on the edge of Dartmoor is Disneyland for landscape photographers.

  • Fairytale woods

    Fairytale woods

    The moss covered rocks were very slippery, and I had to balance precariously in order to find a composition I liked.

  • Orange

    Orange

    The Autumn colour had all but disappeared apart from this one vivid tree, which I had to include in my shot. It took some time before I found a composition I liked and another challenge was removing the sky which was just a blanket of grey.

  • The wood sprite

    The wood sprite

    Wistman's wood on Dartmoor is such an atmospheric location and very eerie. It had seemed a straightforward walk when planning the route beforehand, but after 20 minutes of walking across the moor, a thick mist descended, I couldn't see anything on the horizon and I wasn't sure if I was still headed in the right direction. Luckily a couple of hikers appeared in the distance and rather than ploughing on regardless, I waited for them by a stone wall, the hikers produced a map and confirmed my suspicions that I had veered slightly off course. Upon reaching the woods the wind had picked up and it started to rain, and with another hikers warning that he had manged to trap his leg between the rocks, I was slightly on edge. It didn't help that some kindly person had scared the life out of me by hanging a wind chime from the branches. I knew beforehand that compositions would be hard to come by as the scene was so cluttered, so I had to work really hard to see through the chaos.

  • Along the river Plym

    Along the river Plym

    A view taken further along the river at Shaugh Prior in Dartmoor.

  • Shaugh Prior

    Shaugh Prior

    Fast moving water after heavy rainfall.

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    Orange
    The wood sprite
    Along the river Plym