Kennall Vale Rush
The aim behind this photo was to capture some of the autumn colours that were making a beautiful, albeit fleeting, appearance across the county this year. Naturally, there was nowhere better to go than one of Cornwall’s dense pockets of woodland, and for this trip, I decided upon Kennall Vale. A particularly unique location, Kennall Vale is known for being the site of a former gunpowder factory which supplied Cornwall’s mining industry with explosives in the 19th Century. These days, the remains of its buildings are being slowly reclaimed by nature, creating a truly atmospheric setting.
For this image, I found a hollowed shell of a building close to the woodland’s fast-flowing river. During the shoot, I set up a frame that would combine both the movement of the water, the ruins and the autumn colours. With autumn only making a brief appearance, a lot of the leaves had already fallen, and these decorated the ground with flashes of bronze and gold. Once in post-production, I decided to vignette the image to focus the eye. Wide-angle woodland shots can be very busy, so by fading the edges of the photo into darkness, the eye is drawn to the middle of the image where there are fewer elements conflicting with each other.
The aim behind this photo was to capture some of the autumn colours that were making a beautiful, albeit fleeting, appearance across the county this year. Naturally, there was nowhere better to go than one of Cornwall’s dense pockets of woodland, and for this trip, I decided upon Kennall Vale. A particularly unique location, Kennall Vale is known for being the site of a former gunpowder factory which supplied Cornwall’s mining industry with explosives in the 19th Century. These days, the remains of its buildings are being slowly reclaimed by nature, creating a truly atmospheric setting.
For this image, I found a hollowed shell of a building close to the woodland’s fast-flowing river. During the shoot, I set up a frame that would combine both the movement of the water, the ruins and the autumn colours. With autumn only making a brief appearance, a lot of the leaves had already fallen, and these decorated the ground with flashes of bronze and gold. Once in post-production, I decided to vignette the image to focus the eye. Wide-angle woodland shots can be very busy, so by fading the edges of the photo into darkness, the eye is drawn to the middle of the image where there are fewer elements conflicting with each other.
The aim behind this photo was to capture some of the autumn colours that were making a beautiful, albeit fleeting, appearance across the county this year. Naturally, there was nowhere better to go than one of Cornwall’s dense pockets of woodland, and for this trip, I decided upon Kennall Vale. A particularly unique location, Kennall Vale is known for being the site of a former gunpowder factory which supplied Cornwall’s mining industry with explosives in the 19th Century. These days, the remains of its buildings are being slowly reclaimed by nature, creating a truly atmospheric setting.
For this image, I found a hollowed shell of a building close to the woodland’s fast-flowing river. During the shoot, I set up a frame that would combine both the movement of the water, the ruins and the autumn colours. With autumn only making a brief appearance, a lot of the leaves had already fallen, and these decorated the ground with flashes of bronze and gold. Once in post-production, I decided to vignette the image to focus the eye. Wide-angle woodland shots can be very busy, so by fading the edges of the photo into darkness, the eye is drawn to the middle of the image where there are fewer elements conflicting with each other.