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A view of Higger Tor from Carl Wark, Peak District, Derbyshire, UK.
Shot with a Nikon D90 and Tokina 20-35mm, f2.8 lens.
2 shots from Burbage brook area @ top of Padley gorge Derbyshire. Taken last Wednesday
just a tiny glipse of Higger Taw through the trees caught my eye
Higger Tor is a gritstone outcrop near to Hathersage in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Great views with big skies in all directions!
Visited Higger Tor in Peak District yesterday. A very troublesome photographic session. One of the old film backs on my Hasselblad 500 CM had light leaks & the 2nd ' good one ' malfunctioned. I also used a 120 roll of Fomapan 200 which as per normal had a faulty emulsion full of specs of something. The lighting was also quite flat by the time I took these photos. In any case these two make for reasonable viewing at a small scale. Both were shot using a Zeiss 50mm F4 Distagon C T* @ F 11 with a B&W F-Pro light yellow filter, Fomapan 200 @ iso 100 developed in 510 Pyro 1+100 for 12 minutes semi stand development @ 20C.
© 2013 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission.
Higger Tor, Peak District, UK
A lovely sunrise this morning at Higger Tor. My first of 2014. The light from the sun was a little weak as it rose into a thin layer of cloud.
I had a full day's holiday planned but I'm having to work some of it. It's a pity, because, with the weather report being promising, I'd probably have been up Kinder Scout. Never mind. Higger Tor is a wonderful location and never the same twice.
Shot from the top of Higger Tor in late summer. On arrival here I was disappointed to find a lack of clouds. However, one did drift into view as if by magic, which enabled me to compose a shot with some interest in the warm early morning light.
A wonderful walk over Hathersage Moor to Higger Tor on Wednesday. In the distance is Higger Tor rising from the surrounding moorland photographed from the rocky edge of the Carl Walk Iron Age Hill Fort.
The moorland was looking particularly beautiful, a blanket of lush bracken and flowering heather rising abruptly to the rocky outcrops of Higger Tor.
Higger Tor is a dominant landmark of the Dark Peak, in the north of the Peak District National Park. It is a gritstone tor overlooking the Burbage Valley and the iron age hill fort of Carl Wark to the southeast.
Back to last Saturday morning and after shooting the sunrise we wandered around Higger Tor, the light during the golden hour was exquisite having a mix of warm golden rays and soft subtle pastels due to the light mist in the far valleys.
The rock in the foreground is known locally as the dinosaurs paw and made the perfect object for foreground interest being lit by the low morning sun complete with the distant iron-age fort of Carl Wark also bathed in soft golden light. Definitely a morning worth getting up at 4am for.(1/6 f9 @ 12mm 0.6 hard ND grad filter)
Best viewed on black
All images are Copyright © Stephen Elliott Photography 2013
The clouds gathered, looked to be a storm, but light came, and lightup Higger Tor, and the view towards Burbage Edge and Carl Wark
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Looking up at Higger Tor from Carl Wark Fort.
Carl Wark (sometimes Carl's Wark) is a rocky promontory on Hathersage Moor in the Peak District National Park, just inside the boundary of Sheffield, England. The promontory is faced by vertical cliffs on all but one side, which is protected by a prehistoric embankment. The cliffs and embankment form an enclosure that has been interpreted as an Iron Age hill fort, though the date of construction and purpose of the fortifications remains unknown. The site is a scheduled monument.
The date and purpose of the construction the ramparts at Carl Wark is uncertain, it has been described as being "unlike any other [structure] found in Northern England." It is widely postulated to be a hill fort of Iron Age origin, perhaps dating from the 8th to the 5th centuries BC, though a similar enclosure at Gardom's Edge has been dated to the late Bronze Age, between 1300 and 900 BC. There is no evidence of settlement within the enclosure so it is unlikely that the site was used for a continuously occupied fort; it may have been used as a place of refuge for a population living in the surrounding area or it may have had some ceremonial purpose.
Sunrise shot from the top of Higger Tor, North Derbyshire, UK.
An HDR image shot with a Nikon D90 and a Tokina 20-35mm f2.8lens.
© Steve Bark
Colourful dawn skies from the gritstone boulders of Higger Tor. A layer of mist hangs over Burbage Brook and partially enshrouds Carl Wark (Iron Age Hill Fort) to the right side. Hathersage Moor, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, England, UK. October. Autumn.
© 2011 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission.
Lovely light this evening. Lit up the rocks for ages until it eventually dropped below some cloud.
Higger Tor, Peak District, UK.
Taken on Higger Tor a couple of weeks back in the good company of Martin Levers (martinl). This was around an hour after sunrise. The clouds parted and made way for some lovely light to hit Hathersage Moor.
Gritstone blocks on Higger Tor's south-east corner, with Hathersage Moor and Carl Wark (Iron Age Hill Fort) in the distance. A classic dark peak scene captured during an autumn dawn. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, England, UK. October.
Taken with the Olympus XA4 camera which I previously used in week 131 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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Orwo NP55 film from Six Gates Films of Milan, developed in Rodinal 1:50 45 mins semi-stand at 20 degrees.
This one of Higger Tor is too exposures merged in post processing, thanks to the D7100's nifty auto-bracketing! (something which the D3200 lacked)
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Carl Wark, shown here on the left, is a rocky promontory on Hathersage Moor in the Peak District National Park, just inside the boundary of Sheffield, England.
The promontory is faced by vertical cliffs on all but one side, which is protected by a prehistoric embankment.
The cliffs and embankment form an enclosure that has been interpreted as an Iron Age hill fort, though the date of construction and purpose of the fortifications remains unknown. The site is a scheduled monument.
The promontory is a Millstone Grit outcrop situated in Hathersage Moor.
From the north it is overlooked by the higher 434 metres (1,424 ft) peak of Higger Tor, here seen to the right.
To the east is the valley of the Burbage Brook, which is overlooked by Burbage Rocks, a Millstone Grit escarpment. The land gently slopes away to the south following the course of Burbage Brook into the valley of the River Derwent.
A fantastic morning on Higger Tor when it all just comes together. Albeit briefly.
At first, with the hill cloaked in low cloud, it didn't look too promising. However, the sun managed to sneak below the cloud line briefly as it cleared the horizon, then light up the mist with quite breath taking effect.
One of those morning that serves as a reminder why I love landscape photography and the places I visit so much!