At last a day off with no rain, it seems like an eternity since that happened... A very early start to catch the sun rising over Ingleborough with the Limestone pavement covered in snow it made for some pretty testing conditions underfoot, especially in the dark... made all worthwhile with the sight of the sun appearing just to the side of Ingleborough and illuminating the snow covered landscape in pre dawn light. Making up for being stuck indoors I was still out walking around some 8 hours later until a blizzard appeared which put an end to the day photo wise, happy with the stuff I got yesterday and just glad to be able to get out for once! Over 4 minutes in exposure time has allowed to get some nice colours dragging across the sky in the time just before the sun came up over the hills.

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Another from the early morning Twistleton sunrise set that I've got around to doing. The sun bursts over the ridge and makes itself visible for the first time in the day at the side of Ingleborough, it doesn't feel like we have had much sun at all lately so to see it at all is a bonus, more so when you've got up an ungodly hour to wade through snow to hopefully see it make an appearance at the location of your choice.... The warm glow cast over the snowy tops was most welcome as well from as much a thermal point of view as well as photographic!

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Looking at images from a few of my contacts lately I've seen some great shots from up on Twistleton Scar and they made me really want to go back there for a days shooting, in the mean time I decided to revisit my images from my last trip there and see if I had anything I didn't process, as is pretty much always the case there were quite a few and it was enjoyable looking over them again, this one being one of my favourites.

It was seriously cold up here this morning as I remember and really treacherous underfoot with ice having formed on top of the Limestone Pavment under the snow some very careful footwork was needed getting to different locations, this one was shot not too long after sunrise and fort me pretty much sums up the area and the weather that day, bleak, unforgiving, but incredibly beautful nonetheless.

The colour version of this although nice in itself just doesn't convey the feeling of the image that the black and white one does, and I've noted any bw stuff for ages, definitely gonna make the effort to get back up here and get my bones frozen again soon.

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Another image from the bitterly cold morning up on the tops of the hills at Twistleton, the rocks have received an adequate coating of fresh snow which were just begging to be illuminated by the first actual rays of sunlight coming over the hills, the sky had been glowing in anticipation for around 30 minutes beforehand until the sun finally made an appearance casting a gorgeous light right across the landscape, well worth the early start and getting cold for.

Everytime I look at this image I can still taste the warm Blackcurrant cordial I had in my flask that day.

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