Dereliction
It seems an indeterminate time ago now - its early December 2020 as I write this - but over the Christmas 2019 period I spent a week near Lands End in Cornwall and returned with some nice colourful sunrise photographs. However, there were also some typically Cornish days when the fog rolled in from the sea. Some of the photographs from that trip can be found here.
Returning in September I expected different weather, weather that was warmer, drier and that produced more colourful sunsets. Mmm, let’s just say I was a little disappointed… There was, however, a day of fog that made for some interesting images - absolutely not what I’d expected to capture. I’ll also note that the temperature in that fog wasn’t much warner that it had been back in December/January. Chilly and wet.
The ground was much more alive with small red/purple flowers than it had been on my previous visit but the fog muted all colour and everything looked very flat in colour images. With the muted colours, shapes became the dominant feature and the just visible outline of the old chimney and ruined power house seemed to scream Cornwall!
Levant Power-House
Not far away is a derelict structure whose purpose is a mystery to me. It clearly required massive concrete columns to support something and had big concrete blocks surrounding circular shaped objects. Anyone know what this was? Please leave a message below.
What caught my eye was the regular shapes of the columns all reaching upwards into the fog and how they appeared to stand in isolation like the megaliths of a long forgotten stone age monument.
The mystery structure. ‘Click’ images for a larger version.
By the time I reached this structure the fog was turning to a light rain/drizzle and everything was starting to get wet. Not expecting this sort of weather in September I had brought a limited quantity of clothes with which to wipe the lens and they were all starting to get wet and become ineffective. That pretty much brought an end to the visit as I retreated to the campsite, dried off before heading out for some evening light. Fortunately the fog/rain cleared but the light didn’t peep from behind thick clouds that day.
Andy