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A view along the Hope Valley from Higger Tor.
Captured on Agfaphoto Vista 200 film using an Olympus XA2 camera.
Dawn raid this morning to Higgor Tor, before going on to a group walk at Edale. Worth getting up for, even if had to suffer meh, then a mini blizzard before this bit of beauty.
Morning light from Higger Tor. Looking out towards Stanage Edge, The Great Ridge and Kinder.
Mamiya C330s
Sekor 55mm
Ektar 100
This was blended from two bracketed exporusers (2 EV) using enfuse. Afterwards, some color improvements using Camera Raw and Color Efex 4.
Half of the experience of landscape photography is the journey up the point you press the shutter and even long after you’ve packed down and started heading back home. It’s why to the photographer, the final piece often has far more meaning than just the artistic principles, compositional technique and processing that culminated in its being.
When I set out I hadn’t realised that a named storm had hit the UK. I’d checked all the local charts and forecasts but hadn’t really zoomed out to the bigger picture, perhaps rather foolishly. My route started in Hathersage where I made my way up to High Neb on Stanage Edge, the rain was relentless and the landscape disappeared and re-emerged from the cloud-base. I’m an optimist when it comes to shooting in harsh conditions but the driving rain made it impossible to shoot anything without the lens being covered in droplets.
Having found the limits of my waterproofs ability to keep my dry and soaked to the bone at this point, I decided to press on along the edge along to Higger Tor and photograph the Kit Kat stones, as I had intended to on New Year’s Eve. An altogether different scene presented itself to the one I had been expecting just two days earlier, with cloud and rain straking through Burbage Valley and between Higger Tor and Carl Wark in the background.
As I was photographing the scene, I realised the last time I shot it was also during a named storm, that being Storm Claudio in November 2022. Quite the opposite of this photograph, dramatic light was the defining feature with a contrast between cool and warm hues that puts it up there with one of my favourite photographs. The experience of the day carried on well into the evening, the flooding and landslides caused by Henk resulting in me being stranded in Nottingham for the night although my stay at the Bentinck Hotel was an extremely pleasant, if largely unanticipated one!
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Had a trip out yesterday morning to meet up with Andrew Yu and Chris Charlesworth. We met up at Mam Tor in a blanket of fog, but quickly relocated to Higger Tor, as Chris had driven past earlier and said it was clearer. Well, needless to say, in the meantime, the mist had descended over Higger, but I think we all managed to get something from our morning, before calling it a day, and we all had a natter instead. Also on Higger was Hadrian Frankland, who got the best of the conditions as he was there when it was clear. Was really good to meet up with Andy and Chris at last, and it was a bonus meeting Hadrian too!
The mist actually made it quite atmospheric, and I quite like the fact that you can just make out Burbage Edge in the mist too.
Titled specifically for Andy, he'll know why!
;)
Higger Tor or Higgar Tor is a gritstone tor in the Dark Peak, in the north of the Peak District National Park in England. It overlooks the Burbage Valley and the Iron Age hill fort of Carl Wark[1] to the southeast.
The tor stands to the south west of Sheffield, east of the border with Derbyshire, which runs along the nearby road to Ringinglow.
A scene from the 1987 film The Princess Bride was filmed nearby at Carl Wark with Higger Tor visible in the background.
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!
Colourful dawn skies pass over blossoming heather on Higger Tor in the Peak DIstrict. The sun is rising over Burbage Rocks in the distance. Landscape photography in Derbyshire, England. Summer, August, 2015.
Although in the heart of the English Peak District, this scene could easily be from the American West
Mother Cap at Over Owler Tor, Nr. Higger Tor - Peak District, Derbyshire
(love the little bunch of purple heather sticking out the right hand side of the rock - :-) )
Start of our walk ,a very hot day meant that there not a lot of people braving the heat, but you have heard of "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" !!
Higger Tor sunrise, Peak District National Park.
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