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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
This is a very unoriginal composition from a famous Peak District viewpoint but the clouds offered something a bit different on a visit in late August.
Carl Wark, on the left was the site of an Iron Age Fortress. Taken from the track below Burbage rocks, back in December.
Another one from a visit to Higger Tor last weekend, where those present were treated to a constantly-changing scene as the sunset behind a bank of clouds in the west and mist cleared from the valley to reveal the familiar profile of Over Owler Tor.
I should have focus stacked this. Or used a longer lens, which I didn't have with me. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Higger Tor in the background (left) and Carl Wark foreground (right).
The Longshaw Estate, which is made up of open moorland, woodland and farms, provides ecellent walking country, with dramatic views over the Derwent Valley. The estate is owned and managed by the National Trust.
An unexpected sunset treat after an afternoon trip to Higger Tor soon fizzled out, this afterglow was the best it got. Still very happy though after another very enjoyable trip to the Peak District with mate Paul. Pics. . Sony A7II/24-70mm.
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With subdued light most of the evening came ten minutes of golden light just before the sun disappeared for the night.
Higger Tor seen from Hathersage Moor, taken on an extremely windy morning between frequent snow showers.
A very cold evening on Higger Tor, watching the mist in the valley slowly lifting. I was tempted to clone out the photographer standing down the slope but opted to leave him in.
Had a long weekend in the Peak District, lots of nice walking, but weather was terrible for photography. What I wouldn't give for a misty morning down in Padley Gorge though. A very large nod to Mark Littlejohn's sublime Woodland Wanders www.flickr.com/photos/mark_lj/15084187759 on the processing, which is probably my all time favourite image
The last shot I took before the the rain reached us and we had to pack up and head back down to the cars.