Bite-Size Blog Post #73 - The Rumps
I Need More Cornwall
Over the last few years, I have spent much of my photographic life exploring and capturing images of Dartmoor National Park. It’s my local landscape, and when I decided I needed to get to know it better, I focused virtually all of my photographic energy on capturing images of it. Aside from the odd photography trip outside the national park, I have done little else but photograph tors.
This wasn’t a bad thing for me to do. Having a more intimate knowledge of the environment you want to photograph yields all sorts of benefits, but sometimes you need to poke your head up and see what else is out there.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, who I hadn’t seen for over a year, messaged me and asked if I wanted to come to Cornwall to meet him for some chips and head out with the camera. He had me at chips!
As we ate our chips on our favourite bench, we pondered where to go. We soon settled on The Rumps, a location he knows well and one that I’m always keen to revisit. It was too early for thrift to be in bloom, but the coastline was still sure to look beautiful.
And beautiful it looked. The clear skies and gentle movement in the water did nothing to detract from the colours of the landscape, softly illuminated by the setting sun. We only photographed the scene for a short while, as the sun prematurely disappeared behind a band of hazy cloud on the horizon, but my time spent there was enough to remind me that I must spend more time on the Cornish coast this year.
