Adam Burton Photography

The Green Valley

Dartmoor National Park, Devon

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Gallery: Dartmoor

Without doubt the most atmospheric and dramatic evening that I have been fortunate to witness in my last few years of photographing Dartmoor.  After noticing the clouds beginning to break, I headed to Haytor for what I hoped would be a colourful sunset.  Boy was I in for a treat!  When I got there the moor beyond Haytor was blanketed in mist, which in itself was bizarre for a summer evening.  I crossed my fingers that this added bonus would hang around and headed into the mist, only for it to almost immediately blow through the moorland and disappear.  But I was not to be disappointed for long; as the sun descended I watched wave after wave of ice cold mist blow through the valley beneath Holwell Tor and up over Haytor.  Dartmoor is a landscape bursting with atmosphere at the best of times, but with golden evening sunshine being diffused by this mysterious mist, the moor resembled another world.