S T O W E S - W I N T E R

🔸◾️ S T O W E S - W I N T E R ◾️🔸

📍 Minions ❄️🗻☀️

After missing the opportunity to photograph the snow after it fell heavily (for Cornwall) in the Falmouth area on new year's eve, I decided to head up to Bodmin Moor where I hoped there would at least be some wintry frost.

Once I left the A38 and drove the more rural road towards Minions, my headlights picked up the ice crystals on the road surface. My car registered and outside temperature of -2°C (a rarity in Cornwall). I was getting more hopeful for those wintry conditions!

When I arrived at the car park at the bottom of Stowes Hill, I was pleased to find the icy remnants of snow. I was too late for the pristine powdery stuff - but realistically, I wouldn't have wanted to take my 2WD Ford Focus up there in snowy weather.

I pulled on my wellies and extra layers before marching up Stowes Hill to "The Cheesewring."

As the sun rose behind me, it's light painted the opposing clouds and rock formations in warm light. I'd only been here once before, so I did my best to find compositions. I found this comp with a strong foreground (boulder), midground (rock formations) and background (distant snow cover fields and cloud formations).

Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ-14 | 1-2 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | 2 stop soft grad ND filters | Taken 02-12-2020 at Minions

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