Beardies and Dobbins

Harriet and I have recently returned from our summer holiday in Cornwall, both of us determined to maintain that chilled and relaxed holiday feeling.

I managed to make several sunrise trips with Canon and tripod, and also as many sunset outings as weather allowed. As always these times are unsociable, but as mentioned before on a previous post, it's when the light is at its best. Various locations were used including Lands End, St Michael's Mount near Penzance, Coverack and Porth Nanven to name just a few.

When I returned after each shoot, Harriet would ask me if I met other Beardies!?! She seems to think that all keen landscape photographers have neatly trimmed beards, wear sandles, eat Bran Flakes with dried prunes and have a compass dangling around their neck on a piece of red string. How rude.

But yes, I did meet other Beardies, lurking behind their tripods tinkering with their cameras and filters. And yes, some of them did in fact proudly sport beards.Harriet was able to launch into her favourite hobby (behind sking of course), horse riding. We were able to find different stables dotted around Cornwall offering hacks. Harriet rode on two hacks that were both close to St.Ives. But they didn't offer exactly what Harriet was after, riding on a beach.

Finally on the last day of the holiday, we found a stables close to a beach on the Lizard Peninsular. This enabled her to fulfill a dream she had had since childhood: cantering on a beach - she described it as horse riding's equivalent to powder skiing in deep fresh light powder on a sunny day. Wow, that's quite a statement to make.

So, have Harriet and I been able to hold onto that relaxed holiday feeling after being back at work for a week?

Hanging by a thread.MartinP.S. Is it me or are the evenings drawing in earlier by the day? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Thought so, in that case here's a photo (slightly out of focus, thanks Beardie) of me from last winter to help you along the way.

I'll post more unpublished photos from last winter in a couple of weeks' time.