Not the first image I’ve published from the this location and almost certainly not the last.
Stone Circles can be very hard to photograph with pleasing results, possibly because they look very plain, but also because often they don’t stand out well from their surroundings. What looks fantastic in an isolated location can end up looking like just a few rocks stuck in a field when photographed.
The day of our visit to Scorhill though things were very different - the light was great thanks to bright sunlight occasionally breaking through thick black cloud, the ground was wet with puddles forming and the grass was dry, giving the stones chance to show up against the background.
All I had to do then was try to get the composition I wanted and keep the kids out of the frame 
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Posted in b&w, landscape.
Tagged with clouds, dartmoor, devon, standing stones, stone circle.
It seems a long time since I posted any new photos - there are a number of reasons for this
- I’ve been on holiday
- I’ve been too busy taking them
- So many other things to do
I think I’ve got a decent crop of new images now so time-permitting I’ll be posting a lot of new ones over the next few weeks.
This was taken during a gloriously wet and windy holiday in Cornwall in late March/early April. Much to the kids annoyance we always like to cram in a few quick visits to some stone circles. Most of the time these places don’t make for good photographs but today everything was just right.
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Posted in landscape.
Tagged with dartmoor, devon, standing stones, stone circle.
One of our favourite stone circles - not too easy to get to, but not too complicated either, and always worth the effort.
Swinside Stone Circle (also known as Sunkenkirk) is a lovely well-preserved circle located on private ground which consists of 55 stones set in a 28.7m diameter circle. It can easily be viewed from a nearby public footpath however a small number of courteous visitors make the trip to the stones themselves, arousing the suspicions of playful calves.
Posted in landscape.
Tagged with cokin nd8 grad, cumbria, standing stones, stone circle, sunkenkirk, swinside.
Two photos today, both from the same location, Curbar Edge Stone Circle in Derbyshire.
I was lying down when I took this, as I often seem to be now when taking photos. I’d never really thought of it before, but since dispensing with the tripod it gives that extra bit of stability and allows you to get shots that look a bit different from everyday snaps.
I had originally intended this shot, along with all the others from that day, to be in black and white and they were all taken with either green or red filters attached, but there was something about the distribution of colour in this one that made me decide to tint it (and the other shot here).
As with Shimmer a green filter and an ND4 grad were used and then a magenta tint was added in post production.
This second shot was taken slightly earlier, whilst I was waiting, and as I’ve mentioned in another post shows how much difference a few minutes can make to a image.
Whilst the grad filter is slightly too low and darkens the top of the frame a little too much the subject lends a wistful air to the shot, which lead me to decrease the saturation. I think this gave a much lighter feel, a child lost in contemplation on a warm sunny afternoon (probably wondering why a grown up is lying on the floor)
Posted in filters, trees.
Tagged with canon 450d, cokin, kood, nd grad, sigma 17-70mm, stone circle, stones, trees.
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