Cornwall on Samyang’s 35mm and 21mm primes

Cornwall is an area of the UK that I have wanted to visit for many years, mostly due to it housing The Eden Project. However geographically it has always been very distant from me, both when I have lived in Suffolk and in Yorkshire. So up until now I had not got round to making the journey.

On this trip we decided to camp fairly centrally at a site between Truro and St Austell allowing us access to all of Cornwall with fairly reasonable amounts of travel in any direction.
It took 7 hours from leaving home to reach the site while the longest journey within Cornwall was an hour and a half from camp to The Minack theatre near Land’s end, other destinations such as Newquay were 35mins away and the Eden project a mere 20.
Having booked months in advance it was always going to be a gamble on how the weather would turn out but as luck would have it spring this year has been one of the driest on record in the UK and the week we travelled happened to be during a heatwave with temperatures of around 25-30c. Perfect for camping and beach trips but not so great for spending a day in a giant greenhouse.

For photographing this trip I did not want to be weighed down by an excess of gear or have to take a rucksack with me to carry it all, this meant leaving behind the tripod, filters, wide angle and telephoto lenses. I packed only my small sling camera satchel that can hold the body and 2 lenses.
The two lenses chosen were the Samyang 35mm f1.2 and the Samyang 21mm F1.4. These two complement each other well with their focal lengths and provide comparable IQ and colour making them ideal partners.

Below is a range of images taken across the various days of the trip.

The Eden Project

The sites distinct golf ball like domes are split into three parts, a Rainforest Biome, a Mediterranean Biome and an entrance area + restaurant in the middle separating the two.
The Rainforest is the largest of the two greenhouses in terms of floor space, density, verticality and diversity. While the Mediterranean area is a lot more open with a large amount of floor space taken up by a terrace cafe.

Rainforest Biome

Mediterranean Biome

The Minack Theatre

A highly recomended place to visit in all the travel guides, it is a unique place carved straight from the cliff face.

Penzance and Saint Michael’s Mount

The outdoor seawater pool at Penzance was well worth the visit, it contains a sea temperature pool and a geothermally heated pool that was 38.5C.