Yesterday morning I drove up to Dartmoor to photograph clapper bridges. And then, as the sun was about to rise, I saw the wonderful clouds behind me and stopped the car and ran out with camera bag and tripod and found this lovely tree as a foreground.
Sharp Tor is rising to the between the hawthorn tree to the left and the rising sun to the right. In the background valley is River Dart. The river itself is hidden from view, but the mist in the valley can just be seen. The reflections in water halfway between the sun and the tree is Rowbrook, a stream that flows into river Dart further down.
A few minutes later the sun had lit up the ground where I stood with my tripod and the moorland came alive. (see the image to the left).
And 10 minutes later the sun had risen further and was shining on Yartor Down and lighting up “my foreground hawthorn” very nicely (see image below).
