Cheddar Moor and the Mendips, July 2012
Some of the images that I've posted previously had been hanging around for several years, but this one was made last week.
There have been a series of gorgeous, misty, summer mornings here lately and I promised myself that I'd take my camera with me on my journey to work. However, I made the mistake of waiting until I had enough time on the clock to allow for the required delay. So inevitably, on the appointed morning, instead of the picturesque mist we had a dull, gray fog. Crossing Mark Moor, visibility was low, with the sky invisible. As I passed Wedmore Low Grounds, Nyland Hill was totally obscured and I'd pretty much lost all hope of getting anything worthwhile and had decided that I wasn't going to bother stopping.
However, just after Cocklake the fog started to clear and as I came down onto Cheddar Moor, the Mendips could be seen as a faint horizon line to the north. So I stopped at the end of Canal Drove and made a number of images, of which this is one.
There have been a series of gorgeous, misty, summer mornings here lately and I promised myself that I'd take my camera with me on my journey to work. However, I made the mistake of waiting until I had enough time on the clock to allow for the required delay. So inevitably, on the appointed morning, instead of the picturesque mist we had a dull, gray fog. Crossing Mark Moor, visibility was low, with the sky invisible. As I passed Wedmore Low Grounds, Nyland Hill was totally obscured and I'd pretty much lost all hope of getting anything worthwhile and had decided that I wasn't going to bother stopping.
However, just after Cocklake the fog started to clear and as I came down onto Cheddar Moor, the Mendips could be seen as a faint horizon line to the north. So I stopped at the end of Canal Drove and made a number of images, of which this is one.
This demonstrates why I'm not cut out to be a landscape photographer. I'm just not dedicated enough to get up early on my days off, so I'm always going somewhere else in a hurry when these images present themselves.
As an aside; In processing the image, I discovered that the sensor on this camera - my old Alpha 100 - really needs cleaning. I had to spend an inordinate amount of time with the clone tool to make the sky and hillside presentable. I must admit that I've had this camera five years or so and I've not cleaned the sensor once in all that time. But then I don't have a large number of lenses so I very rarely change them, I just pick up the camera with appropriate lens already attached.
As an aside; In processing the image, I discovered that the sensor on this camera - my old Alpha 100 - really needs cleaning. I had to spend an inordinate amount of time with the clone tool to make the sky and hillside presentable. I must admit that I've had this camera five years or so and I've not cleaned the sensor once in all that time. But then I don't have a large number of lenses so I very rarely change them, I just pick up the camera with appropriate lens already attached.
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