Quarry Wood
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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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.
Not many people about these parts on this morning, saw 1 guy in the distance, but the further away from the beaten track I got that was the last person I saw till dropping back down again, from the last location this was a complete nightmare to get out to but with just taking my time and testing for loose rock and deep now in each step ahead I got here in the end, better to be slow than to get stuck somewhere..
The snow on the Limestone Pavement seems to accentuate it's shape even more than normal, the addition of the tree that could be straight out of Lord of The Rings made for a great foreground against the backdrop of snow covered Ingleborough and the attractive sky which had kindly appeared while I was rock hopping my way here.
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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.
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Quarry Wood!
Most notably Pete Rowbottom.