Blog: 7th January 2012
07th January 2012
In: Blog
I ventured out with the camera yesterday, for the first time this year, and headed down to Dancing Ledge. This is one of my favourite locations in Purbeck, with its dramatic cliffs, and the large, flat rocky ledge, complete with ammonites its surface, leading down to the sea. There’s also a small bathing pool in the ledge, which was blasted out of the rock by headmaster of one of the local schools around the beginning of the twentieth century, and which makes an excellent foreground for a wide angle shot.
Access isn’t easy, which means that there aren’t often that many people there, but photographically speaking, opportunities are limited by the fact that for most of the year the sun rises and sets over the land, though at this time of year, it rises over the sea.
Pre-dawn there was some colourful cloud in the sky, but this had largely cleared by the time the sun broke the horizon. This picture was shot just as the sun rose above the low-lying cloud, and is a blend of two exposures - one for the foreground and cliffs, and the other for the sky.
Access isn’t easy, which means that there aren’t often that many people there, but photographically speaking, opportunities are limited by the fact that for most of the year the sun rises and sets over the land, though at this time of year, it rises over the sea.
Pre-dawn there was some colourful cloud in the sky, but this had largely cleared by the time the sun broke the horizon. This picture was shot just as the sun rose above the low-lying cloud, and is a blend of two exposures - one for the foreground and cliffs, and the other for the sky.
