Hayor - A new friend.

A group of 15 or so Dartmoor ponies surrounded me just below Haytor Dartmoor National Park. With their confidence in numbers and natural curiosity the most confident leader was trying to eat my bag, nibbling at my jacket and trying to push me into the pond. The smallest pony was just licking my jacket and another one a little bigger was getting very aroused by the whole thing. Not an easy shoot. It reminds me of the saying 'Don't work with children or animals'

After the sun went down, they walked off into the darkness and somehow I felt like I had been with them all day.

Image taken 26/02/2012 at Haytor, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK

Some interesting videos about photography

I have been looking around the Internet for inspiration and I stumbled upon these videos.

Great stories from great photographers.

Video : Vivian Maier, street photographer and nanny.

Video : Photographer vs. Predator.

Website for Vivian Maier

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

  

Paul's Website 

Paul Nicklen Photography

Salcombe Seascapes

I thought it might be nice to visit Salcombe this afternoon and try and get close to the water and sea what happens. However, most of the coastline is privately owned and access is very limited. I decided to wonder around and see what’s what.

I managed to find a Tor there that I had no idea existed. It’s called Sharp Tor and it overlooks the estuary and its around 400 ft above sea level and is identical to the Tor’s found on Dartmoor National Park complete with Dartmoor shrubs, algie and moss.

Hope Cove

We went to Hope Cove last night in pouring rain with force 4 winds trying to push us off the cliff and it looked like we would never get our cameras out. Then all of sudden around 4pm the clouds cleared, the wind dropped and we were bathed in bright blue skies and warm bright sunshine. Perfect conditions we thought. 

We managed to shoot from 4pm (90 mins before sunset) till way after sunset. We couldnt have asked for better conditions, the wet ground gave us awesome ground saturation and the rain cleared the air even the cold air kept out lenses stable. 

However, having all this was perhaps too much for the camera to handle. The dynamic range was just too great for me and I had to settle for just a few OK shots.

It just goes to show how you can have too perfect conditions.

Off to Hope Cove, Devon

Just off to Hope Cove for the afternoon. Just having a look around and maybe some shooting later. 

Conditions are not very good for photography. However you will never get the shot if your not there!

I'll post more when I get back