SOMERSET LEVELS 456 – SUNRISE, TOTNEY DROVE
May 2, 2020 10 Comments
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A misty morning on the Somerset Levels: Totney Drove, a single track, tarmac lane makes off eastwards across Tadham Moor.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 181mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera ASTIA/Soft profile; Totney Drove, Tadham Moor, on the Somerset Levels southwest of Wells; 19 Oct 2018.
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About Adrian Lewis
Lovely! I’m glad it just is what it is and doesn’t aspire to be more. “Spare me the visitor’s centers” – yes!
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Yes, thanks, my friend, I know just what you mean about it not aspiring to be more. Oh ****, visitors’ centers >>> I like to get outdoors and enjoy the countryside / natural world, however bland it may turn out to be, for myself, I don’t want go into some center where I’m seeing / experiencing it all at second hand!
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Is it as magical as your photos make it seem? ā¤ļø
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Let me be honest with you, my dear friend – often it is not magical at all as it is, after all, just very simple and in places quite rough pastureland, cut by water-filled ditches; and with farm rubbish here and there.
But if the light conditions are right – for me for example on some (but not all) early mornings, in good or bad weather – then it is truly beautiful and magical, when seen with the eye or the lens, and these are the moments that I try to capture via my lens(es). Sometimes, the things seen through the viewfinder take my breath away.
But it is a very simple and uncontrived place – LOL!!! no public toilets, or “nature walks” or (thank heavens!!!) visitor centers (oh spare me the visitor centers!!!), at least not in the places I visit. It can easily appear unimpressive but, when I’m there, if I can put it this way, I feel that there is space, and that I can breathe. ATP xxxXXX!!!
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This is really magnificent, Adrian. The golden light probably didn’t last very long, but there’s a timeless quality to it that you have captured and preserved so well. You take me there.
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Gary, my friend, I’m very glad this gets to you, and love “You take me there.” – just what I’m aiming at! Thank you! š
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Ja, you betcha!
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Beautifully atmospheric!
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Very glad you like it, Dave >>> thank you! š
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