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Manxman
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14 years ago

This is a spectacularly sited Cornish mine that lives forever in the shadow of Botallack when it comes to the "how close to the cliff edge can we build this" question. From the perspective of this photo the restoration does at least appear to have been sympathetic rather than excessive and out of proportion.

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royfellows
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14 years ago

You took that picture early in the morning, right?
I have psychic powers

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Manxman
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14 years ago

Sorry Roy,
East is East & West is West but my sense of direction is rubbish in this current everlasting overcast, dismal and cloudy weather.

What exactly is sunlight?

P.S. I only wish that I could take the credit for this evocative B & W image - but I haven't been in this part of Cornwall for over 20 years, to my eternal regret. Nice use of a filter, though.

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Peter Burgess
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14 years ago

That is not a morning shot, surely? !

Manxman
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14 years ago

Well ...... as I remember it, the person taking this shot would be facing east and therefore the sun would be setting over the Atlantic, which would be behind them, west of this part of Cornwall. Good evening.

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royfellows
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14 years ago

Ha, I might be talking rubbish but years ago I tried an evening shot on a lovely summer evening, they can happen, and found to my dismay that the sun was setting on the other coast. Don’t forget that Trewavas is Falmouth coast.

I got up early one morning and took this at about 06.00. It was about 1992, I was able to get up early in those days, a skill now lost.

The sun here in front of the camera, so as I said, I may be talking rubbish.

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Manxman
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14 years ago

Nevertheless, another great shot (definitely not rubbish!) - the quality of light down there has to be seen to be believed, morning or evening. It's been too long since I last walked the cliffs in that part of the world .......

Manxman

RRX
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14 years ago

The B&W photo must be late afternoon and Roy's is the morning if you can see the sun. must pop round and see trewavas now

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royfellows
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14 years ago

Mmm, its possible that you can get the sun in that spot (the B&W) just before it disappears completely the other side of the land mass.

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Peter Burgess
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14 years ago

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If you look at the current Google Earth image of the closer engine house you will see that it (the GE image) was taken with the sun in the south west and the shadow of the building falls onto the slope behind just as it does in the BW photo in the first post.

royfellows
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14 years ago

#11

Yes Peter, and other pictures in the album show the shadows in the same direction, I only just noticed.

I rather fancy that when I turned up there with my camera I must have left it too late being used to observing the sun disappear on the horizon on the north coast.
How silly of me!

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Peter Burgess
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14 years ago

#12

The main point is that it is a fantastic location. I think better than the Crowns, Botallack, certainly for photography!

royfellows
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14 years ago

#13

"Peter Burgess" wrote:
The main point is that it is a fantastic location. I think better than the Crowns, Botallack, certainly for photography!

Do you have to rub it in Peter?
I shall keep trying though. Roy never gives up.

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Peter Burgess
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14 years ago

#14

Hey Roy, I was trying to move on! :confused:
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