Hamel Down with late stormlight on Chinkwell and Honeybag Tors
Late golden-hour stormlight gilding the steep rugged slopes of Honeybag Tor and Chinkwell Tor, beyond the shadowed flank of Hamel Down.
A moment of...
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Late golden-hour stormlight gilding the steep rugged slopes of Honeybag Tor and Chinkwell Tor, beyond the shadowed flank of Hamel Down.
A moment of natural chiaroscuro lighting and the juxtaposition of the manicured hill-farmers' fields on the lower slopes of Hamel Down, with the sunlit rugged plutonic moorland beyond.
Layers of deep -time - stretching from the volcanic upsurge of the Cornubian batholith 280 million years ago, to the clearances of the vast ancient woodland and the creation of enclosures in the last 5000 years, right through to the here and now. A landscape created by the heat of the earth long ago and shaped by the weather and humans slowly ever since.
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A moment of natural chiaroscuro lighting and the juxtaposition of the manicured hill-farmers' fields on the lower slopes of Hamel Down, with the sunlit rugged plutonic moorland beyond.
Layers of deep -time - stretching from the volcanic upsurge of the Cornubian batholith 280 million years ago, to the clearances of the vast ancient woodland and the creation of enclosures in the last 5000 years, right through to the here and now. A landscape created by the heat of the earth long ago and shaped by the weather and humans slowly ever since.
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