Saddleworth
Mast at Saddleworth aka Windy Hill Transmitter at twilight.
There is a sign here saying that its the highest motorway in England. Despite the fact I've driven past the sign hundreds of times, for some reason it always comes as a bit of a surprise as I would think it was somewhere in Cumbria instead of somewhere between Manchester and Huddersfield.
Am I delighted with this? Not particularly but its OK I suppose. With hindsight I got there too early and in the end I was bored and getting cold, so decided to go home.
The vantage point was a bit off the beaten track and the road surface was in places steep, unmade, bumpy and wet. I was absolutely horrified to find that my "dipped" headlamp bulb had blown. This was manageable if there was nothing coming towards me as I could use high beam but if there was oncoming traffic it was a sheer gamble but not much I could do as I was out "in the middle of nowhere".
I had lashed the tripod to my Kawasaki but found that when I pressed the shutter it still came out a bit blurred so luckily I had the remote control with me and even then put a 2 second delay on.
Saddleworth
Mast at Saddleworth aka Windy Hill Transmitter at twilight.
There is a sign here saying that its the highest motorway in England. Despite the fact I've driven past the sign hundreds of times, for some reason it always comes as a bit of a surprise as I would think it was somewhere in Cumbria instead of somewhere between Manchester and Huddersfield.
Am I delighted with this? Not particularly but its OK I suppose. With hindsight I got there too early and in the end I was bored and getting cold, so decided to go home.
The vantage point was a bit off the beaten track and the road surface was in places steep, unmade, bumpy and wet. I was absolutely horrified to find that my "dipped" headlamp bulb had blown. This was manageable if there was nothing coming towards me as I could use high beam but if there was oncoming traffic it was a sheer gamble but not much I could do as I was out "in the middle of nowhere".
I had lashed the tripod to my Kawasaki but found that when I pressed the shutter it still came out a bit blurred so luckily I had the remote control with me and even then put a 2 second delay on.