Daily Photo – Hellscombe Cottage
Clearly I would not have been able to repeat this shot in the summer since the leaves on the trees would obscure the cottage from this direction.
Clearly I would not have been able to repeat this shot in the summer since the leaves on the trees would obscure the cottage from this direction.
Quite why this particular combe picked up the moniker of Hellscombe is lost to me. It doesn't look particularly hellish.
Late winter and the grasses are recovering, still no leaves on the trees but the fields are being prepared for spring wheat.
The summer house sits on a small island with the river threading around it. I can imagine when it was new it was a great place to sit and fish or sit and watch the river flow by. But by the time I took this photo it appears it's best days were behind it.
Consequently we ended up down at the harbor at midnight, which is when I captured the image above. The low angle of the sun, hanging just above the horizon, provided 'golden hour' light for the warm tones in this shot.
This is a shot of the partial solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. Well, partial from where I was in Exeter, England.