North Yorkshire
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Whitby
Another image from the visit to North Yorkshire, I hadn't intended to visit this place today but once I had got as far as Winskill I noticed how close I was to Malham and thought it would be rude not to pop over there for an hour... I'd been wanting to come back and shoot Janets Foss as my last visit didn't really give me anything I was happy with, an 'hour' turned into a few hours around the Foss including a trip back to the car to dig out the big wellies for a bit of wading in the river fun... after a dry but somewhat slippery and precarious wade across the river finally settled on this spot for a different take on the falls with a low wide perspective to get the water movement through the frame and including as much of the woodland surroundings as I could, the afternoon light outside of the woodland was getting really nice and warm and was hitting the trees in the upper part of the frame so I wanted to include that too rather than isolating the water from it.
A few hours well spent in this lovely spot, the camera equipment escaped unscathed apart from needing to be dried off, which is more than can be said for my right welly which was filled with water after I didn't pay attention to where I was stepping backwards, but if I don't come home covered in mud or with wet feet I don't feel like I've been out!
The little stopper gave me a time of 18 seconds, no wind outside of the woods kept the trees nice and still through the exposure.
The rather nice Scale Haw Force
An impromptu visit yesterday to North Yorkshire, on the spur of the moment I decided to go and shoot sunset at Batty Moss viaduct, Ribblehead, got up there at Midday to scout it out and after slipping around on ice for a bit decided to come back about 3pm, in the meantime I headed off to Winskill above Settle to scout out this lone tree I'd wanted to shoot for a while, finding it was pretty easy and managed a few long exposure shots before heading off again. I couldn't help noticing on the map just how close I was to one of my favourite places, Malham, so I headed off there, even further away from Ribblehead.. after numerous hours standing in Janets Foss waterfalls (which is quite dark under the trees) with my wellies on I realised that some lovely golden light was just starting to occur, looking at my watch there was no way I was going to make Ribblehead in about 30 minutes, 'photograhers panic' started to set in as the light was now getting really good and I had nowhere to shoot sunset....
Driving in the car looking for somewhere it dawned on me I had the ideal place, the tree where I had been earlier was perfectly placed and should catch a lot of the light in the direct path of the setting sun. In my panic I had forgotten my cable release and also my big jacket so it was absolutely freezing and had to hope my shots would be sharp using the shutter button, thankfully no worries there.
So for a location I hadn't been to before I ended up back there twice in one day, so glad I did too as the light was just immense, managed about 5 or 6 decent shots from here at different angles, this being one of my favourites about 15 minutes before the sun dipped below the horizon, the gnarly trunk of the tree glowing in the light and the limestone pavement basking in gold hues.
Sometimes things don't go to plan, but that's not always a bad thing,
Whitby lighthouses at sunrise
I getting seriously sick of the amount of dog poo and poo bags on my travels lately....However the human variety complete with used bog roll in the lay-by really annoyed me..........
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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Whitby
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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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.
Original title eh?........ Snow Falls (I think!) part of the the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail.
It's been taken and posted a million times before (and probably a million times better than my effort!) but here is my attempt at the Whitby steps, note how i've left the lamp post on the steps out......because it's in two pieces.. No tune for a while so how about some.....
Note to self......Need to visit Yorkshire more often......
Probably the last one I'll post from Scaleber Falls from this visit.
Although I like shooting dramatic falls, I really like the water levels when they are like this giving just wispy hints of water, and it really goes well with the lush vibrant Summer colours down here at the moment. Considering I'd forgotten my polariser I'm really pleased with the results from here and may pop back next week and take in a few different locations as well, we've had quite a bit more rainfall since then too so a lot of places should look very different.
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Thornton Force situated above Ingleton is always worth a visit, especially after a period of prolonged rainfall, something which we haven't exactly been lacking of late..... I dropped down to this spot from the previous location, a lot of ice about on the paths today seemed to be keeping a lot of people away so it was easy to move about the area getting different shots, this location can get absolutely mobbed in Summer. The featureless sky today wasn't bringing anything to the image at all so I've opted for a tighter composition just concentrating on the falls.
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Yorkshire Dales
Wain Wath means wagon ford and is one of the many spectacular waterfalls in the upper Swaledale valley near Keld.
Swaledale
Whitby, Yorkshire coast
Home of Count Dracula . We had the day here for my birthday.30 December. I was 52 years old.I keep thinking I'm in my twenty's but my body telling me other
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This is the last of my images from a recent quite fruitful trip to North Yorkshire, same day, different tree..
Spotted this one located in a hillside amongst the (what I presume) are glacial erratic boulders, I wanted the try and shoot this and include the snow covered Ingleborough if possible, which is what you see here.
Again another black and white image, although the colour version is nice enough removing it for me just adds to the stark feel of the lone tree without it's leaves taking everything the weather can throw at it year after year. Somehow always holding on.
Upper Swaledale waterfall, next to the Pennine Way.
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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A gorgeous (and often very busy spot), Stainforth Force in the North Yorkshire Dales, lovely weather and not a soul about due to it being early evening. Ihad a few hours to kill prior to sunset so decided to pop down here and try my luck.
You can only get on one side of the River here so compsitions are a bit limited so it comes more down to as much your shutter speed that you choose as much as where you decide to set up.
A truly beautful place and great to have it all to yourself to enjoy.
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Whitby, North Yorkshire
Another from the other month.
Wellies next time, or towel, spare trousers and socks!
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well about 2 hours after!
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 Snow Falls.
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Thanks to all Phoide contributors to North Yorkshire!
Most notably Graham Morris, Pete Rowbottom, Carl Wilson, Quentin 'Q' Thompson, Richard Down and AlanHowe.