Peartwater Falls
Found in the garden of a very pretty house tucked away in the Quantock hills. Got chatting to the owner who was out front and he invited me to bring my cameras...
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Found in the garden of a very pretty house tucked away in the Quantock hills. Got chatting to the owner who was out front and he invited me to bring my cameras in.
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May, 2014Views
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One of two beautiful private houses on a stretch of water in the Quantock hills, Somerset, England, that both sport beautiful gardens with water falls formed from the clear water flowing from the hills. The waterfall was man made by the owner, who I met whilst walking along the county lanes carrying my Camera. After a brief chat and my "If you don't ask, you don't get" attitude kicking in, I was given permission to spend a quick half an hour in the grounds of his home and take some pictures.Time
The picture was taken at around four in the afternoon on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon.Lighting
The lighting is all natural and luck was with me in terms of sun position and shadows. With the position of the property in the valley, I would guess that i would have no more than an hours window to reproduce the shot on any given day.Equipment
The picture was taken with my Fuji S3 Pro and with my Nikon Nikor 18-55 VR lens. The Tripod was back in the car some mile and a half up the road so the image was taken with my lay on my side on the bank at the base of the fall. With a 7/10 shutter at f19, I was a little dubious as to the outcome but shot off as many images as I could get time for and thanked a very kindly gentleman for his time.Inspiration
This was a lazy day off spent in the countryside surrounding my village. I had gone out mainly for a walk but as always I had slung my S3 pro over my shoulder and had been merrily clicking away shooting the wildlife and the countryside that i think of as my back yard. I came across a small lane that led to a private house where the owner was outside cleaning his car. After a brief chat and him expressing the enjoyment he gets from such a beautiful spot of English countryside that is his garden, I pushed my luck and asked if i might be allowed to share in that enjoyment with my camera. I was invited to walk around the gardens and shoot what I liked so long as the house itself was not in any of the images, Upon finding the waterfall and his description of how he built it by hand some years before, I had one mission, to capture the beauty of his handy work before I left.Editing
Some minor work was done removing fallen leaves and a child's toy from on the moss on the far bank followed by a slight amount of colour brightening. Other than that this one image from the 50 or so taken captured, for me, the beauty of his efforts.In my camera bag
Fuji S3 Pro Nikon D40 Fuji Finepix L810 for that quick grab moment.Feedback
Long exposures really do need the tripod that was left in the boot of my car! I was fortunate to get a great capture like this one from the many shots I fired off that afternoon lay on the floor. The time of arrival and the great sun position and lighting was pure luck, plan ahead and look at the lighting over a number of days if you can until you find that just right time of day.
