Mist on the way up to Derwent Edge

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Dec 152011

Mist on the walk up to Derwent Edge

The usual Derwent Edge walk, starting from Fairholmes, involves heading north on the east shore of Derwent Reservoir and then east across Little Howden Moor to Lost Lad but I really like taking the more direct route – east on the small footpath just before the dam and then picking up the track that leads past the Grouse Butts and on to Green Sitches. It’s a bit of a climb but I quite like getting the hard work out of the way early, and on a cold day it warms you up pretty quickly.

Personally I also find the landscape a bit more interesting this way :)

The popular Derwent/Fairholmes walk can be found on Trekking Britain – http://www.trekkingbritain.com/derwentedgefromfairholmes.htm – it’s well worth a day of your time.

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Whitesand Bay, Sennen Cove

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Sep 012011

Whitesand Bay, Sennen Cove, Penzance, Cornwall

Conventional wisdom might say we picked the wrong week to go on holiday – one and half days of sunshine out of seven – but fortunately dragging the kids up hills in all weathers has made them pretty hardy and they seem to appreciate any time whatsoever that we can get to the beach. For me, bad weather is more interesting than blue skies, just so long as it’s not too wet to get the camera out.

My eldest makes a rare appearance here – I’d spotted the flag and him walking along the beach so I wandered ahead and waited for him to walk by.

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Drystone Wall, Derwent Edge

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Jul 072011

Drystone Wall, Derwent Edge

An image from a Derwent Edge guided walk with Dave Ascough. I hadn’t ventured out this way before – well not for walking – I’d cycled round the reservoir before but had no idea how great it was up here.

The weather started off a bit miserable, and I did think the chances for taking any pictures were going to be limited but on the occasions that the cloud did break, the landscape and the light were fantastic – in fact this outing (and a later one) changed my outlook – no more going out on sunny days and hoping for a bit of cloud, it’s much more fun going out on overcast days and hoping for splashes of sunlight or storm clouds.

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Eyam Moor, Derbyshire

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Jun 132011

Eyam Moor, Derbyshire

At the time of writing this photo was getting on for two years old. I wasn’t that excited by it at the time – I was going through a phase of only really being interested in the time around sunset so, much as it was great to have some free time wandering around Eyam Moor without the kids either demanding our attention or getting bored, I just consigned this image to the mental bin marked “Not taken at the best time of day”.

However I’ve had a small version of it on the wall for a while now with some other prints, for no other reason than it having similar colours to the other images (which I liked more at the time) and because I had a print of it lying around. I’ve grown more fond of it in that time so I thought I’d stick up here to give it an airing.

Boring Stuff : Canon 450D, Sigma 10-20mm, Cokin P121M (GND4)

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Cairn, Langsett Moor

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Jun 102011

Cairn, Langsett Moor

One from Dave Ascough’s Langsett Moors walk. I hadn’t ventured this far north in the Peak District before – Hathersage and Derwent Reservoir were normally as far as I could be bothered to travel for a day out, but the walk I’d previously done with Dave on Derwent Edge convinced me that the extra miles would be worthwhile.

As it was the weather wasn’t fantastic – a bit too much rain at times – but the walk was interesting enough for me to revisit a week later with the kids :)

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Line of trees, Win Hill

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Jun 092011

Line of trees, Win Hill, Derbyshire

Another from a leisurely stroll up and around Win Hill in Derbyshire with Dan and Al Brydon.

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Tree, Win Hill

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Apr 282011

Tree, Win Hill, Derbyshire

Whilst getting to choose your own wages is probably the best thing about working for yourself, being able to escape to do something fun when the workload isn’t too hectic comes a very close second. On one such less than hectic day Dan and I decided a trip to the Peak District would be the best use of our time and arranged to meet up with Al Brydon for a moderately paced photographers stumble up and around Win Hill.

This was taken towards the end of the walk, as the sun was disappearing behind cloud and the general mist that had been present all day.

This work is available at redbubble along with selected others

If moody pictures of trees (and moody pictures not of trees) are your thing then you’d do well to check out Al’s Holgascapes book or his work on Etsy. He’s too good – I hate him.

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Frosty Morning In Watermead Park

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Feb 232011

Frosty Morning In Watermead Park

A shot from the last significantly cold morning so far this year, in late January. It’s seemed so wet and mild for the past few weeks, which no doubt will please many people as it perhaps signals the approach of spring, but I like cold mornings with comparatively late sunrises.

I usually photograph these trees from the other side of the lake but I was looking for something different this morning – the light hitting the frost on the fence and the shadow covering the path caught my eye.

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Fallen Tree

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Feb 022011

Fallen Tree

No matter how many times I visit this location I always seem to find something new, or a slightly different variation on past themes. I guess part of that is down to making sure I leave a couple of months between visits, so each time it looks slightly different – if I go anywhere too regularly I just end up with infinite variations of the same shot.

A simple shot, taken minutes before the sun disappeared over the horizon behind me, trying to make the most of the great light and the extraordinarily still water.

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One Of The Last Days Of Autumn

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Dec 282010

One Of The Last Days Of Autumn, Watermead Park

Watermead Park, while there were still leaves on the trees. Seems like a long time ago now, but it was taken just a couple of days before the first snows and winter arrived.

As the sun was setting around 4pm and the weather had been reasonably dry I’d been postponing my lunchbreaks and taking them later in the day so that I could cycle around Watermead Park in the hour before sunset. This mix of light stopped me in my tracks and was the first of a number of shots I took this afternoon, before the light faded.

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