North Yorkshire Moors
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While walking across Commondale Moor I came across an old boundary stone surrounded by dried grass that gently blew in the evening breeze. I loved the way the yellow contrasted with the sea of purple heather and composed an image so a distant tree echoed the lone boundary stone.
Thick cloud hung overhead and the light remained diffused and flat, but a thin sliver of clear sky just above the western horizon gave me some hope. An hour or so went by and then suddenly the exposure reading on my meter went up a third of a stop. It was almost almost imperceptible, but the side of the stone had a faint glow.
Within moments the sun filled the gap below the clouds and the most beautiful light I’ve ever seen transformed the landscape, saturating the heather with an intensely warm light. In this image, I placed an 0.6ND filter over the 0.6ND grad so the slower shutter speed captured the motion of the grass as it swayed in the wind. After taking this image, and just three minutes after first appearing, the sun slipped below a hill and the light was gone.
This is a limited edition print with a print run of 100.
Thick cloud hung overhead and the light remained diffused and flat, but a thin sliver of clear sky just above the western horizon gave me some hope. An hour or so went by and then suddenly the exposure reading on my meter went up a third of a stop. It was almost almost imperceptible, but the side of the stone had a faint glow.
Within moments the sun filled the gap below the clouds and the most beautiful light I’ve ever seen transformed the landscape, saturating the heather with an intensely warm light. In this image, I placed an 0.6ND filter over the 0.6ND grad so the slower shutter speed captured the motion of the grass as it swayed in the wind. After taking this image, and just three minutes after first appearing, the sun slipped below a hill and the light was gone.
This is a limited edition print with a print run of 100.
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Commondale Moor, North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England
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While the prints available on this website only represent a tiny fraction of my work, I am continuously adding many more new and older images to a my 'Photographs by Date Gallery' at pbase.com. I create images on a daily basis, so if there is a date without a photograph, I most probably will have one but have yet to add it to the gallery. The majority of these images are open edition prints with prices starting at $90.
A Year of Perth Sunrises Project.
On August 1st 2011, I embarked on a project to capture every Perth sunrise on a daily basis over the duration of an entire year. Each of these sunrises may be view at my galleries on pbase.com: 'A Year of Perth Sunrises'
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