Beautiful light.

From archive.
Beautiful light.
A view I have photographed many times & will hopefully photograph many more times.
Multiple shafts of light spotlight the landscape & bring life to a cloudy day.

Spring is sprunging. Industrial Archaeology gone wild & eclipses over Eden.

Taken two days before the Spring equinox a stand of naturalised primroses shine from the shade.
Taken on the trail around Eden.

Much of my borrowed landscape is former industrial land.  The whole area around me was either farmed or mined for tin & kaolin.  Now those industries have declined the landscape has rewilded where it's been allowed.
This steel pipe is about one hundred years old & colonised by mosses & ferns as it slowly declines.

This old granite built blacksmith shop is now hidden in the woods & looks more like a lost inca
temple than a former hive of industry.

And to the eclipse.
 Not having the correct lenses or filters to photograph the eclipse properly I decided to include it in the landscape.
Taken across & above the Eden domes on a cold & misty morning added atmosphere.
In truth if no one had told me the eclipse was happening I would only have noticed the drop in temperature & the dusk like light but 'twas nice anyway.  

An overnight trip to Bristol flower & produce wholesale market.  5am 10/03/15.

Roche Rock 06/03/2015.
I have photographed here many times in the past with varying results.
I don't usually big up my images, taste is fickle & one mans meat etc.
But I honestly think this is the best photo I've taken.
This Panasonic micro 4/3 & 14mm lens combo is excellent, especially for mono.
I'm chuffed.

Looking east from Roche rock are two wind turbines.  Monolithic structures framed by natural granite extrusions that are real monoliths.
Turbines get a lot of bad press & NIMBY protesters.  Personally I like the look & sounds of turbines.  I'd far rather see them than pylons & certainly more photogenic than a coal or nuclear fired power station.
As always right click, view image & enlarge.

Cornish Backbone.

Rough Tor (L) & Brown Willy (R), the two highest points in the county, with Helman Tor in the foreground.  Photographed from Carn Grey rock (Another smaller tor) yesterday on St Pirans Day, 5th March.
The backbone of Cornwall.

The view from Tavas Carow AKA Garker fields AKA home (above).
& Treffry viaduct, Luxulyan valley. (below)

As always right click, view image & enlarge.