Road Through Dartmoor Photo

Photographer’s Note

This shot is taken through the car window travelling through Dartmoor National Park in Devon. You can see how it twists and winds through the landscape.

Southern England's "last unconquered wilderness" is how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who set his chilling story The Hound of the Baskervilles, in these strange, untamed landscapes, described Dartmoor.

Much of the moor is a great mass of granite, forced up in its molten state from deep inside the earth, millions of years ago.

Dartmoor is known for its mists and rain, around 80 inches a year. Much of the soil on the moor is peat, in places up to 12ft deep. This soaks up water like a sponge, forming Dartmoor's notorious bogs.

Birds likely to be seen include pipits and buzzards. Animals are rarely seen, except for the hardy Dartmoor Pony, but badgers and foxes are present and the otter still lives in the moorland rivers.

Cropped, resized and put through NeatImage to remove noise from the sky.

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ktanska, sarvesh, Emile, perryhooter, digi-mom, thaprem has marked this note useful

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mrcrow (3989) 2005-10-13 17:21

your shot is clean and well taken..hope you missed the guy on the bike..:)
i cropped and zapped your sky as i see as being the real subject here...
the road is pretty windy i have travelled it many times penzance to exeter..
but its not too apparent here just how bad it is..imho
see my workshop for a different viewpoint
cheers
mrcrow

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maki (0) 2005-10-13 17:34

Hi Vicky,
Nice perspective and good POV. There is very interesting road for bicycle. I love spaciousness places. Really good shot. TFS and best regards. maki

RGatward (19747) 2005-10-13 18:11

Nice simple landscape, with compo interest provided by the well placed cyclist, nice work.

ktanska (16621) 2005-10-14 2:48

Into the great wide open...
I like open scenes. Here the road twists and almost disappears before the horizon. Lovely.
Was the windscreen tinted? It seems that this misses some red colour. Anyway, I would brighten this a little.
Kari

sarvesh (535) 2005-10-19 2:14

This is the kind of picture I want to capture someday myself. Thanks for the useful photographer's note.

partha (13657) 2005-10-21 15:36

I suppose this is the best shot of your portfolio. the pic lacks contrast, i will try tomorrow to improve it by means of photoshop.
The thing i mostly like the angle of shoot.

annagrace (2463) 2005-10-22 17:04

Great capture, I really like the cyclist included in the shot. It seems a very barren place but the clouds really add interest.

Alli

jsec (2074) 2005-10-23 20:25

Great image with the cyclist perfectly captured. I am a little intrigued about the white balance as there seems to be a slight blue cast throughout the picture. Could be my monitor needs calibrating. Might try a workshop all the same.

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renato (509) 2005-11-10 12:17

I really like this shot, I would not use tools to pump up contrast or modify clouds,it's perfect!

TFS rc

thaprem (2494) 2005-11-15 7:08

Vicky,
That is one interesting landscape with an equally interesting sky...
I keep reading about moors in books & never understood what they are, living in India, where we do not have such landscapes...
Very interesting note.
Thank you

Mistral (13694) 2006-01-21 7:46

Hi Vicky,
I like your composition. The ciclyst caught the eye leading to the road across the image. Dark clouds close the top with a good scenography effect.
A smile
Luca

loryuno (304) 2006-02-15 11:56

Félicitations pour cette photo, Vicky.
J'emploie le français: c'est ma langue maternelle: j'espère que tu vas comprendre.
La présence du cycliste près du photographe précise mieux l'ampleur de la scène et désoriente un peu, car il va vers le mauvais temps.
Grandiose!
Ciao
Lorenza

jdwyer264 (1082) 2006-11-28 10:28

Good shot Vicky, a nice simple shot executed well.
I like the broken road through the whole image.
You have also captured the atmosphere well, I can quite accurately assume I think that those rain clouds opened up soon after and the wind blowing through the hills was quite brisk, close?
Have a good day, see what you think of my recent Dart post.