This week the weather was forecast for sunshine and clouds, however, on the day there was only high level cloud but it was very bright so made landscape photography difficult. To add to the difficulty I had decided once again to take my Leica M9s out...0
2028 May 2023 10:42AM | Read
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This week the weather was forecast for sunshine and clouds, I decided to go out to Fox Tor via Nun’s Cross Farm. The weather was as predicted so I took my Fujifilm GFX 50Ss along. Fox Tor. Nun’s Cross Farm. I parked at the Whiteworks junction ...0
2621 May 2023 10:10AM | Read
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This week the weather was bad, heavy rain/thundery showers forecast but there was a gap of about 2 hours on Tuesday so I opted for a short walk along the River Lyd to find Black Rock with its Memorial and Waterfalls. I packed the Fuji X-T2s for their...0
2214 May 2023 9:58AM | Read
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With good weather forecast this Tuesday and no live firing on Willsworthy Ranges I decided to take my Leica M9s out over Tavy Cleave and across to Hare and Ger Tors to try some landscape photography. Without the assistance of live view or decent post...0
237 May 2023 9:58AM | Read
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This week the weather was forecast for fine and bright with clear blue skies so I thought big vistas wouldn’t be too photogenic with all that blue sky so I decided to do a walk where there were lots of rock formations to capture rather than sweeping ...0
2130 Apr 2023 10:04AM | Read
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This week the weather was forecast for sunny and dry so I decided to take my Bronica SQ-Ai film kit with the 6x4.5 back (along with my Fuji X-T2) up to Okehampton end and go out over to West Mill Tor, across to High Willhays then down to Dinger Tor b...0
2323 Apr 2023 11:05AM | Read
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This week the weather forecast was much better for Monday than the rest of the week so I quickly made a plan to go out on Monday afternoon rather than my usual Tuesday morning. I needed to stay local to reduce the travelling time and give me more tim...0
1916 Apr 2023 10:19AM | Read
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This week with good weather forecast I decided to take my Fuji GFXs up to the North Moor around Belstone Tors area. I went via Scarey Tor over Belstone Tors to The Irishman’s Wall then across to Higher Tor and Winter Tor. The weather was indeed good ...0
289 Apr 2023 9:42AM | Read
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This week no matter where I looked there was rain, I had no choice really but to go out in it so I decided to get under trees to limit the drenching, Venford Brook is in a quite steep wooded valley and is where The Twin Falls are so that was my choic...0
162 Apr 2023 10:16AM | Read
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This week I was once again dodging bad weather, the gap this time was around Burrator Reservoir across to Venford Reservoir so I decided to go out to the Drizzlecombe Stone Row via Ditsworthy Warren House, Plym Steps then over to Higher and Lower Har...0
2626 Mar 2023 10:15AM | Read
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This week the weather forecast was for sunshine and clouds, I wanted to find some new Tors and a Waterfall so I went out from Postbridge Visitor Centre over Braddon Lake Rocks (and small Waterfall) then on to Braddon Tor (not marked on the OS Map). F...0
3019 Mar 2023 10:03AM | Read
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This week I was hemmed in with bad weather to both the North and South with a gap across from Tavistock over towards Widecombe and Moretonhampstead so I decided to go over Yar and Corndon Tors hopefully in the better weather. I arrived at the Car Par...0
1912 Mar 2023 9:59AM | Read
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This week I wanted to shoot a roll of film to send to a new (to me) lab to check them out so I took my Bronica up Rippon Tor to shoot some vistas, the film scans aren’t back but as usual I also shot the compositions using a Leica D-Lux Typ109. After ...0
245 Mar 2023 9:52AM | Read
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This week I decided to head out to the centremost Tor in the Forrest which is Lower White Tor, however, the weather had other ideas. I did get out via Crockern Tor on to Littaford Tors and as far as Longaford Tor but then the weather closed in thick ...0
2626 Feb 2023 10:03AM | Read
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This week I wanted to find some Boundary Stones that are mentioned in the Dartmoor 365 Book so I headed out from The Warren House Inn, over to Grimspound via the ruins of the disused Vitifer Mineworkings then over to Hameldown Tor and on to Hameldown...0
2519 Feb 2023 9:53AM | Read
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