Photos by Peter Mather, February 2021.
Above the fog
Tag: photography
A Lone Beech
Photos by Sarah Hailstone.
Tall Trees at Nutcombe Bottom
Did you know that England’s largest trees grow on Exmoor? Nutcombe Bottom, situated not far from Dunster on the road to Timberscombe and Wheddon Cross, is a popular walking and picnic site, featuring the “Tall Tree Trail”.
Here you can find a plantation of Douglas fir trees dating back to 1876 – the largest tree was 60.5 metres when it was last measured in 2009. Its trunk has an estimated weight of 50 tonnes with a diameter of 1.74. metres.
Gillian Wells was there and shared these photos with us.
Memories of Exmoor
With the weather having gone back to being grey, damp and cold, it is nice to look back at photos which show Exmoor under a warm, blue sky. Sarah Hailstone and her dog Jack go for (very) long walks across Exmoor every day. Sarah runs her own blog (Discover Exmoor with Jack) and regularly very kindly shares her photos with us.
Now sit back and dream of Exmoor….
Kingfishers
These most beautiful birds can be spotted at many locations on Exmoor. While most of us will just see a flash of iridescent blue, Michael Fook managed to capture some outstanding photos:
Morning visit
“So I looked out of the kitchen window and saw a lovely sunrise plus some hinds on the hill. As I had finally got around to buying a tripod, which arrived yesterday, I thought great, I’ll photograph those. Something made me look right and yippee! The stags had decided to pay me a visit! They hung around for an hour despite me letting my dogs out and we then watched them nonchalantly jump into our bracken bank before sauntering off into our woods. It’s not often you get to photograph deer whilst still in pj’s ( it was a bit nippy!) from outside the kitchen!”
By Pauline Richards
Taking the leap
Sometimes it really is a question of being in the right place at the right time. And that’s where Jeff Acreman was nearly to the day six years ago.
The walk to Pinkery
Situated not far off the B3358 between Challacombe and Simonsbath, Pinkery Pond is a remote catchment of water at the headwater of the River Barle on The Chains. It was built for the Knight family around 1830 – John Knight had purchased at public tender the 10,262 1/4 acre former royal forest of Exmoor in August 1818 and began what became the largest single land reclamation project in England.
Nicola Kemp went for a wintery walk at the beginning of January 2021 and shared these photos with us:
Winter on Exmoor
On of these beautiful photos by Aishngra Smith featured in today’s “From Exmoor, with love” daily emails which we have started to send out to sweeten up lockdown.
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Winter sunrise on Exmoor
Martin Williams took these photos of a gorgeous frosty Exmoor sunrise a couple of days ago.
