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Smugglers Havens. 2 a Day Please.

Coves, Creeks, Harbours and Inlets around the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands

Featured Work

Hope by morpheus71

Looking from Hope Cove towards the Bolt Tail headland on the edge of Bigbury Bay. Hope Cove has in the past been a smugglers haunt – but is now more famous for its crab and lobster fishing boats. The St. Peter the Great ship of the Spanish Armada was grounded in the bay on the Shippen Rock in 1588 – some of it’s beams were salvaged for use in some of the local buildings. [The rocks here are mainly metamorphic quartz-mica shists] Canon A570 IS Powershot & Kodak Tripod 7 manually bracketed shots at f/8 HDR & Tone-mapping in Photomatix Pro 3.1 finished in- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 & Imagenomic Noiseware Community Edition [Ordnance Survey Grid Reference – SX 674 938]
Loch Harport by WatscapePhoto

Loch Harport and the Red Cuillin. Viewed from outside the Talisker distillery in Carbost on the Isle of Skye. CANON A-1 / CANON FD 35-80mm Multimap Reference
Robin Hoods Bay by SWEEPER

This is the Southern end of the bay , photographed from one of the balconies above the huge sea wall with the 100-400 canon lens . The sunlight was in and out of the clouds and I waited for quite a long time for this picture while my wife took the dog for a walk !
Sun Rays by Svetlana Sewell

Wales, Snowdonia, UK / NikonD300 / 18-200mm / 1/250, f/10.0, ISO160
Moonlight at the Estuary by Martina Fagan

Moonlight at the Estuary at Malahide Dublin Ireland taken Oct 8 2009. / I know this isn’t technically very good but I think its ok for a hand held shot just resting on my cameras bag. Hadn’t got he tripod with me :( / ©MCN:CDG7D-YS1DC-UXMNE
Bright Star by RedHillDigital

Bright Star In September 1820, poet John Keats landed at Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England on his way to Italy as a passenger on board the sailing brig ‘Maria Crowther’. Apparently he wrote the poem Bright Star (below) to commemorate his last night on English soil. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night / And watching, with eternal lids apart, / Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, / The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, / Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask / Of snow upon the mountains and the moors- / No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, / Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, / To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, / Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / And so live ever-or else swoon to death. John Keats In common with many places along the Dorset coast, Lulworth also has a smuggling history. Photograph taken: 27th September 2009

Recent Work

The Boathouse, Cadgwith, Cornwall by rodsfotos

The old boathouse at Cadgwith was used for generations as repair workshop for the many small fishing boats that used to be used for pilchard fishing from the port. These days, most of the boats catch crabs and lobsters but it’s good to see them still using traditional methods that are sustainable for fish stocks. Cadgwith is situated near the Lizard Point on Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula and I’m delighted to see it has changed so little in all the years I’ve been visiting it, long may it remain so. Nikon D300 / 18 – 70 Zoom @ 31mm / F11 for 1/100sec / CP Filter used BEST VIEWED LARGER
Red Boat at Sanna by James Stevens

Taken at Sanna Point at the very tip of the Ardnamurchan Pennisular on the west coast of Scotland. This headland is 23 miles further west than Lands End in Corwall. / Taken with my trusty old Nikon D70.
A Day Out by Svetlana Sewell

Wales, UK / Nikon D300 / Nikkor 18-200mm / HDR in Photomatix Pro / 1 shot, handheld / PP in PS CS3 including Orton Effect
Writing

The Gathering…Just for fun.

Just a fun piece of writing to highlight the Great West Country Getaway, which is a joint group meet taking place on March 22nd 2010 in Cornwall for a minimum of 4 nights. Also for fun, I have incorporated the names of the three groups involved within the poem. If anyone else wants to join in the fun in March, then feel free to join us.
On The Edge - Beachy Head by Arrowman

Chalk Cliffs near Beachy Head, Sussex. A 3 exposure blend in Photomatix Pro, with. / C.P. Filter
Looe Harbour by Catherine Veal

This is taken at the entrance to Looe Harbour looking towards West Looe in Cornwal. UK. / Edited from RAW in Dynamic Photo HDR FREE DOWNLOAD1 shot X 3 then into CS3. Finished off in Picasa3 FREE DOWNLOAD / Thank you for looking. / BEST VIEWED LARGER
The Great Storm by Richard Veal

Originally uploaded in March ‘08, this was a capture of the storm that hit SW England that same month. / This was taken from the bridge at Dawlish Railway Station, Devon, England. / Despite the rough weather, the trains continued to run, and this stretch of track is the most expensive to maintain, due to the battering it gets from the sea. / This is a common sight in Dawlish during the winter months, and sometimes during the Summer months also. This picture was originally tonemapped by Dave Warren and I have revamped it a little bit to give it a slightly different look. Thanks again to Dave for his help with this. Thank you for looking. / Hope you like it. Best Viewed Large. Pentax K110D. / Pentax 18-55mm lens.
Upper Deck by Steve & Lesley

Please View Large Further on our travels throughout Cornwall we stopped of at Porthalow where I spotted this wonderful cottage simply named “Upper Deck” Nikon D300 / Sigma 24-70mm
Ventnor Beach by RedHillDigital

Ventnor Beach, Isle Of Wight A warm, sunny day at the end of October in the seaside town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. British weather at its unpredictable best! Situated in the Solent off the south coast of England, the Isle of Wight is 23 miles long by 13 miles wide and has 60 miles of largely unspoilt coastline from the The Needles in the west to Bembridge in the east. Ventnor faces south-east and is sheltered by the land mass of St Boniface down, the highest point on the island at 787 feet. Ventnor’s Museum of Smuggling History was opened in 1973 with the help of the local council. It features 700 years of smuggling methods and artefacts and life sized models of personalities from the smuggling past. Date: 29th October 2009
Shoreham Harbour Panorama by mikebov

Best viewed LARGE / Looking East along the river Adur towards the main port area / The Town of Shoreham by Sea is on the left bank / with Shoreham Beach to the right / Photograph taken from the footbridge / Shoreham by Sea Sussex / 3 images stitched with photostitch Panasonic fz50
Rainbow Martello by Martina Fagan

Rainbow Martello taken at Portmarnock Co Dublin during Oct 2009 / Canon 300D / f/6.3 / 1/200sec / ISO 100 / 149 mm on 18mm-200mm Sigma / ©MCN:C65AC-WV1NW-AN6S2
Sandsend groynes as the tide recedes. by Phillip Dove

From a recent set of images taken at Sandsend on the North Yorkshire coast near Whitby. As the sun disappeared and the tide started to recede, the water made abstract patterns around the rocks and groynes. / Nikon D80, Sigma 10-20 lens / 10 secs at f18

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About This Group

Please Note. Membership is open to all, but artwork submitted must be from the UK, Ireland, and the Channel Islands.

Special Featured Member.

Rod. Get well soon my friend.

Welcome to Smugglers Havens, the group where you will find all the beautiful little Coves, Creeks, Harbours and Inlets around the UK, that could have been used by smugglers. If it is navigable, then it is eligible.
So on your next trip to the coast, let your imagination run away with you, and look for those ‘Olde Smugglers Haunts’.

Work submitted must have a good description, including nearest large town etc, so we all know where it is.

Please familiarise yourself with the group rules, which are there for your benefit and protection, before submitting work into the group.
We ask this to avoid disappointment at having work rejected.

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Thank you.

Other Groups that some of you may be interested in.
Devon and Cornwall.
Retired and Happy.
England in B&W.
Bargain Shooters.
Wessex UK.
The Great West Country Getaway.

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