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Kinder Upfall
On Kinder Scout, one of the summits in the Dark Peak, there is a waterfall called Kinder Downfall. On very windy days, which we’ve been having in abundance here in the UK recently, westerly winds come screaming up the valley and funnel into their most intense just as the water is going over the edge. [...]
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Local Winter Walk – Dec 11
We had a good dump of snow a couple of days back, and the forecast was for sunshine in the afternoon. Driving anywhere was going to be tricky, so walking out onto the local hills from my house seemed to be a good plan. One of the benefits of living where we do is the [...]
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Image used in new book
Niall Grimes has just published a new selective guide to bouldering venues in the UK, “Boulder Britain”, and has used this pic. This was a lovely spring day at Pex, back at the very end of April. The blue skies and green leaves seem a distant memory as I write this!
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Dark Woods
Another shot from my early morning stroll round Dovestones – I took a diversion off the main path and down through a plantation of conifers. Unusual perspectives with a low “roof” of branches, muted light, carpet of pine needles, rows of tree trunks.
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West Pennine Sunset
Yesterday was mostly taken up with shots for the new BMC Cheshire Sandstone guidebook. As I approached home it was nearing sunset, so took a diversion up a very bumpy road to our local reservoir, parked up and had a wander round to look for sunset images. This was one of the results.
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Autumn Morning in Chew Valley
Got up early yesterday morning, the autumn colours are at their best round here at the moment. I normally tend to prefer bright sunshine, but decided to work with the flat cloudy light I had. Luckily the reservoir was flat calm and acting like a giant mirror, which was lovely. Wanted a wideangle view [...]
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Stormy Sunrise
Got up this morning, opened curtains and noticed a very impressive sky. Conditions didn’t seem too bad from our house, so threw some clothes on, grabbed the camera and drove uphill to our local reservoir. Parked up at the dam wall, pushed the car door open and the storm force wind promptly slammed it shut [...]
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Bokeh Panoramas
“Bokeh Panoramas” is an interesting technique that gives you a “look” that is very difficult to get any other way (large format or tilt/shift lens perhaps). It needs a short telephoto lens with a wide max aperture (=shallow depth of field), and ideally a lovely out of focus bokeh. I use a Pentax FA 77mm [...]
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It’s been a busy couple of months
Well since I last posted the weather in the UK has been challenging, lots of grey sky and occasional rain, with odd spells of fine weather. Then the last week of September has been glorious. Quite a lot of time has been taken up getting photos for the new BMC Cheshire Sandstone guidebook, and I [...]
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Win Hill Sunrise
I’d planned for a while to photograph sunrise from the top of Win Hill, in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District. Last night the forecast was good, so TPE was called into play to work out the sunrise time and direction. Adding the time it would take to walk to the top, and [...]
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