Category: Dartmoor
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A threat of thunder, Hameldown Tor, late summer 2024
No-one is visiting Hameldown tonight, just me. Thunder is in the forecast, risk of disruption, heavy rain, that kind of thing we’re warned so often about these days. And the sky is heavy, ‘though not yet dark – a possible threat, but perhaps in the distance. I’ll carry on up. It’s 1st September, and I…
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Venford brook and waterfall
It’s spring, but it’s not really spring, feeling and looking like late winter, still. I have 3 hours, and point the car toward Ashburton, not knowing where I will end up. On the steep road uphill from Ashburton to Poundsgate, I find myself turning off for Holne. At Holne I find myself continuing toward Venford…
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Finding Chapel La Wallen, Dartmoor
In May 2023 I published my photozine Lidwell Chapel – Images from Two Seasons. It took a long time to put this together and I’m rather proud of it. (You can still buy it from Etsy here.) Soon after launching this into an inexplicably underwhelmed market I found myself re-reading it and reminding myself that…
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Pictures for an Exhibition
I was delighted, back in mid-June this year, to hear that some photographs I had submitted had been accepted for the Dartmoor Collective’s first ever exhibition at Poltimore House, near Exeter. A total of 19 artists and photographers were selected to show their work (over 120 images in total), and the exhibition was open to…
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Autumn 2021, Dunsford Wood
The pandemic lockdown and our house move in November last year (with all that entails) prevented me from visiting Dunsford Wood for a couple of years – probably the longest I’ve stayed away. But now, happily, it’s only a 20 minute drive from our house, so I’ll be walking its paths much more often. I’m…
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Back to the Moor
It’s been a while. I now live much closer to the moor than I did before November 2020. I can drive to the foot of Rippon Tor in less than twenty minutes from leaving my front door. But I didn’t, until the second week of April 2021, because of the lockdown. It was quite late…
Terry Hurt Photography 