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Exmoor Subjects at This Time of Year

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Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 7, 2010 at 5:28 PM
If you were going to Exmoor National Park at this time of year for the weekend, what would you be shooting?

Thanks in advance for all responses
Posted by Justin on February 7, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Ponies :smile:
Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 7, 2010 at 5:32 PM
:biggrin: :toast:
Posted by Justin on February 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM
In addition to photographing the Exmoor ponies, frost-coated landscapes would be another option as the weather looks like it's getting colder again throughout the week.
Posted by Tristan Campbell on February 7, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Another in favour of landscapes....
Posted by Paul King on February 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Get down to Wistland pound resevoir or the islay marsh on the taw/torridge estuary.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on February 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Anyone asking "Are you photographing something rare?" :biggrin: :wink:
Posted by Tim Taylor on February 8, 2010 at 2:10 AM
It was blanketed in fog yesterday morning and the trees were coated in ice. They looked very photogenic - when you could actually see them... :biggrin:

Tim
Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 8, 2010 at 7:32 AM
Thanks for all these tips, folks! I am curious as to why no wildlife subjects have been suggested though... is it the season or the location that's leading to the preference for landscapes?

Maggie, I don't get the reference, sorry..? :confused:
Posted by David Sewell on February 8, 2010 at 8:25 AM
Come on, John,

Q. what would you be shooting?

A. Anyone asking "Are you photographing something rare?"

Made me laugh anyway, Maggie.

David
Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM
I must be being a bit thick as I still don't get the references... if you think I am fishing for tips on rarities, I am not: I just wondered what people went to Exmoor to shoot, in particular at this time of year - I've never been there, it looks quite wild, the tourist info sites all list lots of wildlife subjects but I am always disappointed by the claims of such sites and the reality when I visit a new location and so I was wondering if their claims are accurate or fanciful. If that's not info people share, fair enough, I withdraw the question.
Posted by eric weight on February 8, 2010 at 4:14 PM
No, no John; you've got the wrong end of the stick. Sooner or later you will get heartily sick of passers by who on seeing you with an enormous lens have to come over and ask if you are photographing something rare. They either frighten it off if you are, or look at you as if you should be in an asylum when you explain that you've got all that gear to photograph a moorhen.
Hence Maggie is right - they want shooting.
:wavey: Eric
Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Doh... the penny has now dropped :smile: Funnily enough, ths used to happen to me a lot when I lived near to the New Forest... and in Los Picos in Spain, I had people coming up to me all the time asking if I was after Wolves... I must have been at least 10 yards from the car park :biggrin:
Posted by David Sewell on February 8, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Glad the penny has dropped, John :smile: I don't think it is that people won't share such information, I for one have not been there for 30 years, and simply don't have any information about the area to share. Looking at the locations of members in the photographers section, coverage in that part of the world looks thin as well. You'll just have to be the trail blazer for the rest of us!

David