Living in Hope

We scouted out this view the day before & were taken with the curving path leading up to the gate & stile.

This was the best colour of the morning - there wasn't much before sunrise, here the Sun is just up, hence the crepuscular rays, but the Sun itself was just hiding behind low cloud on the horizon helping to stop blown highlights which I always get annoyed by.

We'd hoped for more fog but the fog God wasn't best pleased for some reason. On the way back to Sheffield we stumbled on a valley full of fog below Curbar Edge an hour after this - like I've said before you never can tell with mist & fog.

This view over Hope Valley is taken from Mam Tor, a place frequented by serious types with back packs full of the best prime lenses - the kind who enter competitions.

If you google "Mam Tor", Wikipedia tells you the name comes from "Mother Tor" as landslips from here have resulted in the creation of a number of smaller hills.

I'm not entirely convinced about this because having got here in the dark to set up - the silhouette on the horizon was identical to me to that of a woman lying on her back with her arms outstretched.

OK I'm a bloke, & I was sleep deprived, & had been away from home for a few days but I can still see it here. It's even more pronounced when there's very little light & no colour to speak of.

Mammatus clouds get there name from the Latin word Mamma meaning breast or udder, because they resemble breasts hanging under the body of cloud.

Mam is clearly an abbreviation of this - Can you see it too or is it just me?

Experts aren't always right are they? :)

 

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