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September morning with cloud, mist and a little drama thrown in for good measure. The weather forecast was all to cock (wrong) so I had to make do with what was there. Plenty in fact :)
The Hawthorn was alive with the sound of bee's. This view looking out across the Peak District below Higger Tor, the tip of Stanage can be seen top right. The light was hazy and I had a moment of sun before it disappeared behind cloud.
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Kit Kat rocks on Higger Tor with Carl Wark in the distance.
The Peak District is beautiful all the time but when the heather is out its even more so.
The view across Hathersage Moor to Higger Tor from Over Owler Tor. A couple of abandoned millstones in the foreground marking the start of the snow-dusted path.
A four photo panorama.
Wandering back to the car after a sunset shot on Higger Tor, I noticed the interesting cloud formation against the row of parked cars and a camper van and decided to make one last image. Sometimes the best colour comes long after the last sun of the day.
First shot of 2019 I headed up to Higger Tor in the Peak district. The sun didn't show until around half 9. This was one from around sunrise time. I actually prefer this to the one with the sun in. Happy new year everyone!
Another re-processing from the archive and a bookend to my last post which featured my last sunset of 2021 to showing my first of 2022.
The evening was bitterly, bitterly cold. So much so I almost ended up not taking this photograph.
The high pressure that sat over country at the time allowed for virtually cloudless sky and this created the perfect conditions for a "belt of Venus" which arises when the light after sunset back scatters against the atmosphere in the east, the darker band of blue/purple is Earths shadow being cast against this light.
The subject in the distance is Higger Tor with the boulder field below Over Owler Tor and across Winyard's Nick making up the midground of the photograph. I've got this one down as a potential for the impending heather bloom too.
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The view North along the wall at Carl Wark to Higger Tor.
Classified as a hillfort, the purpose and date of Carl Wark is uncertain, ranging from Neolithic to early Medieval.
Carl Wark, Peak District
The Peak District on Thursday and decided to go down from Higger Tor to Carl Wark. Wonderful heather right at the moment.
Lots of heather workshops over the next week weeks but still a few places, please message me if interested.
• Peak District
• Olympus EM1MK3
• 7-14 pro
• Nisi Medium Grad ND
A photographer stands on the edge of the Higger Tor escarpment and the silhouette just reminds me of the phrase "chasing the light". Well I certainly got the light on this occasion as the sun dipped over the western horizon in the Peak District. I was precariously perched on the Kit Kat rocks looking along the escarpment as there was a photography workshop taking up the usual positions for sunset when I arrived there. So I was forced to improvise! These book end shaped rocks normally feature in sunrise shots as they are lit up by the dawn light. You can make out some other photographers on the far ridge near the setting sun.
My tripod was set at a strange angle just to get this shot and I was balancing shakily to utilise the live view on my camera. Good job it wasn't too windy up there. I have posted a portrait view of this scene, but I like this one and the photographer on the ridge helps make it more poignant.
The first cold snap of the 2018/19 winter came early to the Peak District. Late October on Higger Tor, on a cloudless morning the subject of most of my images became the frozen heather and frosty gritstone.
Higger Tor in the background, lovely early morning light with the ling heather looking fantastic
Thanks to Duncan Fawkes for the location and workshop
Looking west in a sunset ontop of Higger Tor.
The iconic rocks of the west edge of Higger Tor stand silently in silhouette against a sunset it has viewed tens of thousands of times and somehow we think that our own testimony to this once occassion is "important" or "significant".
From Higger's perspective, it is just another beautiful day. :-)
Carl Wark is the site of an Iron Age hill fort. The hills around there make a great walk - especially when the heather is blooming.
The shot above is the view towards Higger Tor with the rocky edge of Burbage Rocks on the far right. A couple more shots from Carl Wark in the comment below, the first from further along the rocky edge looking towards Higger Tor, the second looking towards Over Owler Tor, where we'd just walked from.
A sting in the tail? A late flurry of mid March snow on Higger Tor, but not enough to cover the landscape as I had hoped.
The wind was blowing an absolute gale so ended up sheltering as best I could behind some rocks and shooting hand held. It certainly blew away the weekend cobwebs
Advenures in Ouzeling - Higger Tor 07052021 - Out before 6:00 this morning, a dusting of snow at Ringinglow and this lovely rainbow as I parked so I grabbed my gear and legged it up the path to get a nice viewpoint - grabbed a couple of shots with the 100-400 but by the time I got my other body with the wide angle it was gone and the visibility started to drop