The 2018 Photo Competition ran on our FB group back in May/June for four weeks. We had meant to turn the top 13 images into a calendar again, but simply ran out of hours in the day to get this organised. However, we now have a new project called “A Year on Exmoor”. More details will be revealed soon, just as the winners of the competition. The standard of entries have yet again been amazing and, in our eyes, every single one deserves to be a winner!
All photos were taken in and around Watchet by Peter Mather.
Text and Photos by Sophie Jemma Rose
Autumn 2018
My heart , my soul and my childhood.
My granddad who sadly passed away two years ago aged 98 used to cycle to and from Porlock pre world war 2 he would go every year when he was a teenager. Then when he had his own children ( my dad being one of two) started taking them to stay in and around Exmoor. From the early 1960’s onwards.
And when I was born in 1995 my family took me and have taken me nearly every year since! I am now 23 and Exmoor has always been and will always be my favourite place. It’s my happy place and the one place where I feel home even though I’m away.
My parents will be retiring there in the near future and I can’t wait to make more memories and to bring my future children there to see and experience the magic Exmoor brings.
Home and already planning and excited to be back! ✨
I will tell you a wonderfull story of our last day in Exmoor National Park.
As I said it was the last day in the first days of September before heading back to Germany…
The weather forecast was really bad. Cloudy and rainy. We decided to go one more time to look at the herd, me and my group of photographers followed the last days. Not for making photos only to say goodbye to them. It didn´t take a long time to find them, because we know were they are yesterday. Because of the bad weather we mentioned that they do not have done so much wandering in the night. So it was. Unfortunately we found them it began to rain. The herd were heading in direction to the coastline and we followed them. Then it begins to be excited… The Ponies went into a forest with a lot of fern and began to eat this. The conditions for making photos are the worst. No light / brightness and rain🙂. Doesn’t matter we followed them… And then the ponies let us near to them they never did before. Saying to us: Come on human, come with us in the forest there is not so heavy rain. My serial of photos shows some of my favorites photos ever that I have done from the exmoor ponies. Never thought that on this rainy day I would make nearly 1000 photos. Enjoy!
Yours Martin Buschmann
P.S. Next year we will come back. Thank you to the wild animals and the friendly people of Porlock.
It begans to rain
Raining gets more heavy. The herd is gone into the forest.
Protection for the little ones – in the forest
Hey man.. you are also here? Come with us to forest 🙂 No rain there.
heavy conditions for photographing but i love this pic
Hurry up in the forest – heavy rain begins.
I am hungry.. You too man?
Hey I know you from yesterday
so cute
Hey stallion can you help me… the photographer from yesterday is already here..
Hello to stallion
äh who what…???ahh the photographer… don`t worry… this one only wants to play… he is harmless!!!
A golden landscape from a autumn in full colour whilst deep in the valley walls two homes slowly loose the afternoon light at County Gate, Exmoor.
County Gate, as the name suggests is where Devon and West Somerset meet. Its location offers great views over the East Lyn valley and Doone Country. There are several energetic walks from here into Doone Country or down to the coast.
Here is the collection of photos shared with us during September 2017. You can click on the individual image to see an enlarged version.
Today there were so many brilliant Exmoor photos on Instagram that we increased our weekly collection to 14. We hope you like the photos as much as we do!
Like every week, we have had a look through #Exmoor posts on Instagram. And here is our pick of the day:
August 2017 wasn’t the best summer month we have experienced on Exmoor. However, there were a number of very nice days, and Exmoor is beautiful whatever the weather anyway!
Here are some of the images our Exmoor4all community shared with us in August:
“Popped out last night up onto Exmoor. First time in ages.I love the way the heather is mirrored in the clouds.”
David Rowlatt shared this photo yesterday with us on Twitter.
