The early morning sun illuminates the old customs house at Bayards Cove, dating from 1739
The Cherub, the oldest extant building in Dartmouth, dating from 1380
The rather new Higher Ferry leaving the Dartmouth side for Britannia slipway, on the Kingswear shore
The yacht Saunterer, built in 1900 and owned for a time early in its life by Captain Lawrence Oates, remembered today as the gentleman who, suffering from severely frostbitten feet, walked out into a blizzard on the Ross Ice Shelf, March 1912 in the hope that his sacrifice would help his three remaining companions make better progress. Those men were Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans having died earlier at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. All were of course returning from their ill fated Polar expedition to the South Pole.
Saunterer remains much as she was built 113 years ago.
Hallsands beach, stripped of its overlying shingle
Start Bay is a closed system where the shingle is not replenished from outside the area, however the shingle can shift north to south (up to 7 miles) and vice versa, or move offshore depending on winds and waves. Currently it has moved north leaving Hallsands and other beaches at the south end of the bay devoid of up to 6 feet depth of shingle, exposing the underlying rocks
Coming to the DP2M from the tribulations of an Nex 5N, apart from the attributes which everyone generally acknowledges (sharpness, detail, texture, subtle colours tones, micro-contrast) there is one quality which, to me, is a greater relief: white balance accuracy.
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Kingswear as seen through one of the gun ports of Bayards Cove Fort (dating from about 1530), Dartmouth. A rowing gig is going down stream towards the sea.
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