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Mar 14, 2010, 11:30:05 AM
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:iconalex37:
I went camping on Dartmoor with my girlfriend overnight on Saturday. On the sunday morning as the heavy clouds overhead started to break up the odd patch of sunlight started to burst through.

I stood ontop of the tor watching the sunlight sweep towards me and I could see walkers walking to the tor I was stood on. I mentioned to Emma that it would be sods law that the wakers would sit down and have a rest in my photograph just as the sunlight hit (and after 30 minutes of waiting). Guess what happened.....
20 mins later still I had my shot, thankfully she's a patient girl!
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:iconearim:
I love all the "metal" colors in this picture steel blue, iron grey, the bronze golden grass.
The hard rocks contrasting the "smooth" hills: I really like this picture, it captures one of the mystical landscape you can find all over GB.
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:iconalex37:
~Alex37 May 24, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Thank you, I am glad you like it, I am quite fond of this image, despite the average reception :)
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:iconcl3tus:
looks a little harsh with the sharpening and contrast of the rocks but apart from that its a really great shot. patience is definatly a vertue
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*smallcraig1606 Mar 24, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
I think I would have taken the shot with the walkers in it. Some of my favourite images (from my shooting slides days) are of superb landscapes with someone sitting in the middle of it. Gives scale, interest, colour sometimes. Just a personal view, of course.

But on a technical note - did you "chop" the rock in the left foreground during your crop? It looks "truncated", as it were. It draws my eye, and irritates me a little, which alloys my enjoyment of the image as a whole. I do like the clouds, but there is something a little "off" in the image, to my eye. It may be a personal bias, which I'm prepared to admit - where I grew up, yellowed grass meant drought, and drought normally meant hot, and that is something I have grown to hate. Anyway, I think I've been quite critical enough ... I admire your perseverence to get the shot, when all is said and done.
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~Alex37 Mar 24, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
I dont really think you have been critical much at all! Definitely perception has a lot to do with it. I know people who have walked on dartmoor are more likely to enjoy this than those from further afeild :)
As for the rock at the bottom. Yes I did crop it, and I do like it as it is to be honest, but thank you for the criticism.

Alex
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:iconsassaputzin:
jealous... lovely shot...
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:iconalex37:
~Alex37 Mar 24, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
but where is it?
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:iconancoben:
Nice and moody
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:iconandyw01:
Cool love the mood on this one.
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