Following my post of a few days ago, here are a few more from Haytor Rock, Dartmoor. The first is similar to my previous post and is taken with a 'proper' camera (rather than a phone). The others give some idea of what the rock is like. It's just a smidgen short of 1500 feet high - one foot short in fact. (That's 457 metres high to the converted). Not terribly tall but high enough to kill you if you fall off.
Lots of rock climbers practice on it but, for the likes of me, a set of steps makes life easier. They were cut into the rock in the 1800's and there was a handrail as well, but that has since been removed. In 1851 a Doctor Coker is quote as saying ' the unsightly stair step is to enable enervated and pinguedinous scions of humanity of this wonderful nineteenth century to gain the summit' - basically for the tired and fat heirs of the nineteenth century (and me!). I don't know what the fuss was about, they hardly stand-out. Maybe they did when new. We actually started the ascent in the wrong place and made it a bit more difficult for ourselves. In reality there's only one spot that demands a stretch and some extra care.
I've tried to process the first two shots to convey the feeling I had at the summit - the sun almost overhead caused high contrast and it was quite warm. Please let me have your opinions if you have time, I do appreciate them.

JGW, fergmark and Linda, the fact is I'm quite pleased with the way it came out and I'm quite happy with the nearly-night look. I'll be doing another edit of it for a series and I'll go for a normal daylight edit for the whole series.

JGW, here's a link to a DNG version of the dark exposure. If you can get detail out of the sky and render it as a more normally exposed shot, I'd love to see it. I've worked on the merge but not the dark exposure on its own, so I'd like to see what the possibilities are.

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