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Published: 2010-09-10 22:47:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 1367; Favourites: 74; Downloads: 72
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when i look at this shot it makes me realise what a unique landscape dartmoor is....hard eroded plugs of granite that sit ....essentially on a peat bog....
This shot is typical of a dartmoor tor...granite stacks of character that jutt from the moorland landscape that surrounds them...
i walked about 5 miles to this tor....it is on the edge of the military firing range...when i got there i noticed a large bag of rubbish stuffed between the rocks ....Watern tor is outside the range area...i could not believe soldiers had left this there....so i checked it out and found a document from a particular army unit...a document pertaining to operations in afghanistan ...
so i was left with no other option other than to carry this bag of rubbish off the moor...needless to say i contacted the commanding officer running the training area on dartmoor....
The unit were brought back to clean up their mess...and i had an apology from the officer in charge of the exercise....
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Lovely shot - I really like how the warm orange of the grass and stones contrasts the blue sky. I fear one day, I'll have to see for myself what a beautiful spot Dartmoor is!
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i fear you will, i cant see you being dissapointed.....
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Oh and in other news I found an OS map being used by the forces on Saturday, they must have left it at a rest point and forgottent it. Theye were doing a 50 mile hike around the moor with 2 camping points and 15 checkpoints. Free waterproof map, bit of meths and it was as good as new
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if anyone one of us had left so much as a match on dartmoor in my days we would have been ran up and down every hill on the moor...its just ridiculously unprofessional....and to loose a map!!!...but as you say good for you....
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ha yeah, I kind of like to think that there were a couple of them relying on the same map and they realised a few miles away that it was lost!
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It's nice Steve, probably the best way to shoot it in that light, although there are more compelling compositions about
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composition was kind of dictated by the cloud really....i have another eyed up for the future...
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im about in devon and cornwall at the moment with friends in the tavy area, went out to minions yesterday, took a walk to the cheese wring, awsome place to shoot with a moody sky and if youve not been its well worth it, grazing sheep and cattle too and maybe a rock climber.
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yep we are lucky with plenty of subject matter in this area....hope you have a good time..
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Beautiful shot. The lighting and the subject are really stunning.
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thank you my friend im glad you like it....
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go steve...go steve...
classic capture of this strange tor. clouds make it.
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thanks mark....are you turning pagan on us with all your trips to glastonbury?
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Paganism, if thats what its called, is the fastest growing religion in the UK Steve...but no Im not!!
Would be fun though.
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Excellent capture Stephen, really like the light and shadows on this, as for the litter, its beyond me why people think its okay to just leave it.
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many thanks james....
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That's crazy! So did you also get sworn to secrecy regarding those documents?
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not really...they took it quite seriously and got the unit back to clear up after themselves which i felt quite chuffed about...
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Haha yea and fair enough too. I'm definitely not a fan of going out shooting and finding rubbish over the place...
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