“Jurassic Dorset”

Thunder over Golden Cap In this stunning atmospheric photograph, with a storm racing in from the south west, it is easy to see how Golden Cap got is name. The highest point along the south coast at 191 metres, Golden Cap towers over the tiny hamlet of Seatown, from whose beach this photograph was taken.

» The gallery

A selection of stunning photographs, taken by Jon Watson of Dorset’s Jurassic coast, now a designated World Heritage site, and the surrounding countryside.

» World Heritage site

This stretch of coastline was nominated as a World Heritage Site because it is "an outstanding example representing a major stage of earths history and the record of life".

The cliffs that make the scenery of Dorsets Jurassic coastline so beautiful and diverse provide an almost continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations which span some 185 million years, known as the Mesozoic Era. It is of such international significance due to the diverse range of fossils - marine and terrestrial, vertebrates and invertebrates - which have produced so much evidence of life during Mesozoic times, showing the evolution of species from fish to dinosaurs to mammals.

» About Jon Watson

With a career in photography spanning almost 50 years, this internationally accomplished photographer has a photographic gallery and framing business in West Bay on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.