Ingleton

A shot from the beginning of the year, just after sunrise but still very early morning, amidst the latest snowfall a lone gnarly tree stands within the vast Limestone pavement at Near Twistleton Scar, the tree remains in position despite it's isolated location it has withstood everything the weather has thrown at it. This was an absolute nightmare to walk out to, it's bad enough hopping on and off the pavement over the grikes normally but in snow / ice conditions it seemed to take forever, better to be slow and safe than disappear up there....

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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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Original title eh?........ Snow Falls (I think!) part of the the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail.

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 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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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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A golden end to a glorious winter's day in the Yorkshire Dales with a snow topped Ingleborough majestic on the skyline across a golden Batty Moss...

A new location for me but one reasonably close to places I've shot many times before on the opposite side of the valley.

Myself and Mike Tonge decided to come up here for an afternoon to scout around see what was about, a good few hours were spent looking arund and we found some great little spots, including some giant stone cairns overlooking the imposing figure of Ingleborough.

We had seen this tree (or what looked like 2 trees) in the distance and we had that spot in mind for sunset, the onlt problem being that within an hour of us being up here the mountains had gone from being glorious lit up to completely grey and covered in a huge bank of low cloud, after waiting for quite some time for this to break we abandoned that spot and headed over towards this area, the going underfoot here is really hard going, and a few of the gaps into the limestone carried really sharp jagged deadly edges so being very careful was neccessary.

Despite it being gloomy and flat we got set up and just decided to see if anything would happen light wise as the sun dropped, as you can see it did, the tiny gap in the huge bank of low cloud above the horizon gave us a very short window of golden light bathing the scene as you see it, as soon as it had come it had gone again but that didn't matter to us as we had got something from virtually nothing, packed up happy and trudged back off on the long walk back to the car with a shot in the bag. A great day.

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Whernside framed by the tree

Explore #11 - Christmas Day 2016.

A Merry Christmas and a massive thanks to all my Flickr friends, and visitors who have stopped by my stream this year, left faves and thoughtful comments, it's really spurred me on throughout 2016 to take some of my best stuff yet, your support is really appreciated and I look forward to doing the same for you in 2017. Again thanks very much guys, I hope you have a superb Christmas whatever you are doing.

Since we have had no snow and probably the warmest Christmas day I can remember in the UK to come, I thought it only fitting to post this nice snowy scene from early this year (kinda close to Christmas) , been meaning to post it for a while but as always, things take over and things get put down the food chain in favour of newer ventures....

Shot at Twistleton above Ingleton , North Yorkshire on an absolutely freezing morning just after sunrise had been and gone, the walk to here was probably to most precarious I had ever done given that the Limestone was like an ice rink, a proper leg breaker if it all went pear shaped, but that tree was too much to resist with snow dusted Ingleborough in the background!

Also there appears to be some curious weather phenomena going on in the scene, the reaching cloud with the bright 'pointy hand' is pointing toward a 'rainbow ball' (a friend told me this may be a 'glory' ) ? I saw this at the time and wanted to capture it, I've highlighted it with a 'note' to show you - just put your cursor over the image and it should apear, anyone know what this phenomena is? I'd love to know!

Anyway it seemed a great time to post this shot, hopefully you can help me and a very Merry Christmas to you all again.

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Well what's this!? some actual new material?... with the recent relaxation of the seemingly never ending lockdown rules it was time to escape from the confines of the house with the camera to a real location, and one that I hadn't been to for some time.

The weather looked quite good for sunset so I just decided to go for it, even if it didn't work out I really wasn't bothered as it was as much about getting out into nature again, with a view to look at at, a bit of exploration, and some more practice flying my drone, basically it was just GREAT to get out!

Mike Tonge decided to come up as well and meet me for sunset so there was the added bonus of some company as well on the jaunt. The few hours I had up here seemed to go very quickly and all to soon it was time to find a spot for the impending sunset, this one was chosen with the hope the the smaller tree could be fitted 'inside' the larger one by getting low down, which worked out really well, the weather had gone from being sunny and perfectly still to blowing a gale from nowhere which made keeping the tree still a quite hard task, but it wouldn't be landscape photography without a challenge! I had bumped the ISO up to 400 to deal with that, but this is shot on the base ISO so I must have just got lucky for a second!

The sun vanished totally into the low cloud and haze shortly after this shot, knowing there wouldn't be an 'aftershow' of any kind tonight, we made our way back down the hill and out of the strong winds before setting of home. A great use of an evening.

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