The Source and End

"First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art."

Alexander Pope



Puddles of early morning sunlight on the undulating slopes of the vales Yarnacombe, Wytchcombe, Spriddlescombe and Bearcombe. These lie in the South Hams area of Devon.

Yarnacombe and Brownston woods are in the immediate hanging valley.

Windy Ridge at Ugborough sits in the middle distance and the ridges of shoulders of Harford Moor, Stall Moor & Penn Moor on the southern fringes of the Dartmoor plateau sit in the far distance

Ordnance Survey grid reference = SX 697 527

Pentax K-x
Pentax 18-55mm SMC/DAL lens (at 36mm)
Hoya circular polarizer

HDR from 3 RAW files (-1.5, 0.5, +2.5 ev):

f/6.7
ISO-200
manual focus
matrix metering pattern
hand-held

HDR processed in Photomatix Pro 3.26.

Further processing & finishing touches using Lightroom 3.26 and Photoshop 6.0