Totnes Plains - First morning of Winter

by morpheus71

The Plains area of the River Dart in dense freezing fog, during the golden hour of the first morning of winter. St Johns church lies across the salt marsh in Bridgetown and the form of Totnes Bridge, beyond is just discernable in this hazy atmosphere.
Uploaded02/12/2016 - 00:08
CategoryLandscape / Travel
Shutter Speed1/20
Aperturef/13
LensN/A
ISO200
Focal Length18mm

Wildwood512
Posted 02/12/2016 - 02:38 Link
Phil, I am honored to be on the same forum with you!!! You take and present such phenomenal photos!
Cheers...Donna 😊
andymat
Posted 02/12/2016 - 08:23 Link
Lovely - you certainly make the most of where you live.
GIULIO57
Posted 02/12/2016 - 09:52 Link
Great atmosphere
PPG
malfis
Posted 02/12/2016 - 12:14 Link
Atmospheric - I like it.
Lots of gear - but not a lot of idea!
Stridey
Posted 02/12/2016 - 12:14 Link
Really like this, Phil. What makes it for me are the watery sun (& reflection) together with the line of mooring bouys leading up the river. Cracking shot - you can feel the cold !
morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 19:54 Link
Wildwood512 wrote:
Phil, I am honored to be on the same forum with you!!! You take and present such phenomenal photos!

Wow! Thanks very much for your generous and encouraging comments Donna 😊 I am very lucky to have such a wealth of beautiful locations to explore in their many moods😏
morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 19:55 Link
andymat wrote:
Lovely - you certainly make the most of where you live.

andymat wrote:
Lovely - you certainly make the most of where you live.

Many thanks Andy It's a wonderful part of the world to live in!
morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 19:56 Link
GIULIO57 wrote:
Great atmosphere

Many thanks Giulio 😊 Worth the cold toes😂
bwlchmawr
Posted 02/12/2016 - 20:17 Link
A glorious image.
Best wishes,

Andrew

"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference.  All of them can record what you are seeing.  But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
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morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 20:20 Link
malfis wrote:
Atmospheric - I like it.

Many thanks Malfis😊 It was a fascinating morning 😊
morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 20:38 Link
Stridey wrote:
Really like this, Phil. What makes it for me are the watery sun (& reflection) together with the line of mooring bouys leading up the river. Cracking shot - you can feel the cold !

Many thanks Stridey for your encouraging and considered comments 😊 I recently watched 'Turner's Thames' on the BBC, where Matthew Collings explored how Turner, made light the vehicle of feeling in his work, and how he found inspiration for that feeling in the waters of the River Thames. I think that whilst studying light in it's myriad interactions with sky and land is already inherent in my photographs - that other than dawn or dusk, the sun itself is rarely in my photos. Inspired by Turner's regular inclusion of the sun, this moment seemed an intriguing opportunity to include it's reflection.

The hope to include the two ducks by the reeds, to link their shapes and the distant bouys was fortuitous, as I was due to be elsewhere and the fog got thicker just a minute later, obscuring the sun.😏
morpheus71
Posted 02/12/2016 - 20:39 Link
bwlchmawr wrote:
A glorious image.

Thanks very much for your generous and enthusiastic comment Andrew 😊
Posted 02/12/2016 - 22:42 Link
Super... Really fine and original composition... well done for being there, and for finding this...

Best
Carol8345
Posted 02/12/2016 - 23:06 Link
Simply put "beautiful"
morpheus71
Posted 03/12/2016 - 00:50 Link
thingsthatihaveseen wrote:
Super... Really fine and original composition... well done for being there, and for finding this...

Best

Many thanks for your generous, encouraging and considered comments Bill😊 So glad I wandered down to savour this moment 😊
morpheus71
Posted 03/12/2016 - 00:52 Link
Carol8345 wrote:
Simply put "beautiful"

Thanks very much Carol😏
autumnlight
Posted 04/12/2016 - 16:56 Link
A beautiful frosty Winter image, you weathered it we have the pleasure of sitting back and enjoying it
morpheus71
Posted 04/12/2016 - 23:16 Link
autumnlight wrote:
A beautiful frosty Winter image, you weathered it we have the pleasure of sitting back and enjoying it

Thanks very much Maria So glad to have been there at that moment!

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