Combestone Tor

Ref: S3-1128
The Hawtorn trees by Combestone Tor in Dartmoor.
The double rainbow looks lovely and vivid, a bright and welcoming setting for the scene. What you cannot see are the freezing storm force winds almost blowing me off my feet, and whipping the stinging hailstones into a horizontal torrent. I needed to shoot directly into the hail in order to get the rainbow – I could hardly even look where I was shooting, let alone keep the lens clean. Is a miracle I managed to come away with a shot at all!
The Hawtorn trees by Combestone Tor in Dartmoor.
The double rainbow looks lovely and vivid, a bright and welcoming setting for the scene. What you cannot see are the freezing storm force winds almost blowing me off my feet, and whipping the stinging hailstones into a horizontal torrent. I needed to shoot directly into the hail in order to get the rainbow – I could hardly even look where I was shooting, let alone keep the lens clean. Is a miracle I managed to come away with a shot at all!
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