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Higger Tor, rock-cut basins, near Hathersage.
Peak District.
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From a quick visit to Higger Tor on sunday, a spur of the moment thing and two hour drive, haven't been here for over 18 months, you can tell winter is on its way
A view over the sunlit valley from the rocks at Higger Tor. Sony A7II/24-70mm.
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Spent last Saturday afternoon enjoying the heather and enduring the crowds on the eastern edges.
15 minutes before lights out the setting sun lit up the heather - probably more intense and vibrant than the picture really shows
A summer sunday afternoon and not a soul insight....anyone that knows this place will know that it is usually buzzing with folk...quiet today though.
or Winters first nibble. From a very chilly morning in the Peak District last month, when unfortunately the winds blew away any of the forecast clouds and mist
Higger Tor and my second-to-last photograph of 2021.
I knew at the time I captured this photograph that my processing skills weren't yet equipped to deal with this kind of light and I posted the best I could achieve at the time.
With many, many more hours of learning and experience under my belt, I feel like I've been able to finally see this photograph through to how I envisioned it.
The evening itself was bitterly cold, and it was blowing a gale the whole time I was up top the tor. Despite all of the noise there was still a serene sense of calm, the beauty of the moment far outweighing any physical discomfort the cold may have been causing.
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Another from last Saturday morning up on Higger Tor and taking a long lens shot over towards Longshaw and the Chatsworth Estate and the mist of the inversion enveloping the landscape.
Cotton Grass starting to appear on Higger Tor.
Taken on a digital camera with a vintage Zuiko 50mm f1.8 lens.
We talked briefly to these two guys, who were reminiscing on the rocks on top of Higger Tor - a great place to admire the view and catch up with a friend. Though they were sitting on a rock, rather than a park bench, I couldn't help thinking of the Simon and Garfunkle song (below) and found it going round my head for quite a while afterwards.
There have been a couple of programs on the TV recently (still on the BBC iplayer, I think) to celebrate the 80th birthdays of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle, including a film of the The Concert In Central Park in 1981. Many of their songs were the sound of my youth and bring back many memories.
Old friends
Old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blowin' through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends
Old friends
Winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust
On the shoulders of the old friends
Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy
Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear
A time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
For the last 3 years my first landscape shoot of the year has happened on Higger Tor in the Peak District (Its easy to access after all those Christmas dinners).
On this occasion I had all but given up on any nice light, but just as I was starting to pack up, and for just 2 minutes there was a break.
The view from the base of Stanage Edge, looking towards Higger Tor, Hathersage Moor and the Derwent Valley beyond.
My first trip to Higger Tor, and probably not my last. There were so many potential compositions that it was hard to settle on just one, but the heart shaped rock in the mid-ground of this composition, along with the leading lines of heather in the fractured gritstone made me choose this one. Shortly after this I lost the highlights on the foreground rocks and the image didn't work so well after that.
The "Kit Kat" stones up on Higger Tor in the Dark Peak.
Only my second visit to Higger Tor, some nice morning light and definitely a change in the weather. Starting to get a little colder standing on hills open to the elements, had to put a second layer on :)
Was nice to be out
HDR Panoramas - Higger Tor and Hope Valley
Bit too breezy at Ramsley this morning - no chance for any dragonflies and the juvenile meadow pipits were being blown about so I headed up Higger Tor for a bit of cobweb removal
Carl Wark, on the left was the site of an Iron Age Fortress. Taken from the track below Burbage rocks, back in December.