We spent ages trudging through the heather on Eyam Moor trying to find this stone circle, in the end we found it by accident just after we’d given up. The sun, which had popped out from behind the clouds a few times during the afternoon, made a brief appearance to light up the heather.
I should perhaps have taken some shots of the stones, but I got distracted by the light on this piece of grass.
This shot is was taken one lunch time in Autumn. I’d gone out a few days earlier in search of rich autumnal colours but I didn’t really see anything that I liked. When I found this scene I was intrigued by the light more than the colours and knew it could look really striking in black and white.
Unfortunately it was windy and the end result had some movement in, so I made a note to come back again when conditions were better.
This retaken effort was processed in exactly the same way as the original but fortunately none of the leaves are blurred 
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I’ve always loved this location, and have visited here with many friends over the years. There is nothing utterly fantastic about it but it’s a nice place to be with friends on a warm summer afternoon (or in this instance, totally alone on a warm summer evening)
There was once a small car park and a picnic area here but it has fallen into disrepair since the gate was permanently locked due to vandalism. The car park is now overgrown, in fact I was standing where it used to be when I took this shot, and I suspect dog walkers are now the only visitors rather than picnicking families.
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