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I've long(dendale) been meaning to come back here and reshoot this scene. I shot it a few years ago and deemed it good enough to print. I look back now and cringe, sorry to the recipient of said print 😁 I think (hope!) I've improved ever so slightly since then.
Couldn't believe my luck (or eyes) this particular morning. Not a scrap of mist anywhere, until I dropped down into a fog-filled Longdendale valley. Bliss.
The Transpennine Trail just sneaks into the bottom of this shot, hence the name.
Sometimes the test shots just work on their own. From a recent shoot with Tim G in a tunnel on the Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire.
Blanket of cloud, starting to clear from the top of Bleaklow and the Woodhead Pass.
Please excuse any lack of posting or comments over the next few days or so. My PC broke yesterday and has gone for repair - I hope! Just about managed to retrieve this image to post via my old Surface laptop - but it's a bit of a pain to use. Hope I'll be back soon and that we haven't lost anything. Fingers tightly crossed!
If you viewed my last photo you may be interested to know what the opposite view was, so here it is.
It was quite a dark photo, mainly because I exposed for the sky, meaning the foreground was quite dark, it’s still dark in this upload but was as far as I wanted to process it. Hopefully it shows the landscape enough to be able to appreciate it. The reservoir in the background is called Woodhead reservoir, the woodhead pass runs along side of it, when the roads quiet it’s quite a nice drive.
You can just see a little bit of the road snaking through the trees in the middle of the photo.
A team of workers burning heather Longdendale, Woodhead pass. Saw these guys working away on my run back over to Sheffield, captured with my sigma 150-500mm, used the car roof with a bean bag for a steady support to capture this image.
By all measures I shouldn’t have this photograph a wild Bearded Vulture, Gypaetus barbatus in the UK.
Up until Saturday morning a trip to the Peak District where this first year female, named Vigo by the locals, has been hanging out for around two months had never been in my plans due to everything happening this year I’ve left the local area just once since March and that was the neighbouring county for half a day.
A sleepless night after a tough week at work saw a snap 4am decision and dawn saw me stood in a grey and misty Woodhead Pass straining down a telescope at a speck at least a quarter of a mile away on the opposite side of the valley.
Any doubts as to if it was just a rock were dispelled as it took off before 8.30 in the morning cruising the opposite ridge massive in comparison to the Buzzard trying to mob it.
Some rain set in and it disappeared but relocated to a valley that the Pennine Way passes through sitting on a rock cliff close to the footpath just a short walk from the carpark.
After two hours it launched from the ledge without any warning sweeeping past in a matter of seconds. Somehow this photo has come out sharp with just 1/160th on the shutter speed, all the others in the sequence were blurry with the grey day.
She effortlessly soared around for a few minutes without ever flapping before disappearing again into the adjacent valley.
A breathtaking bird to see.
formerly known as Lammergeier (Literal translation Lamb Vulture) but as the don’t specifically eat them, unless they are carrion, been rebranded based on the tuft of hairs on its chin
Another image from my night visit to the moors above Birchen Bank Wood, Woodhead to capture the Milky Way in a dark place. Unfortunately the light pollution and a bank of cloud followed me. Mars glows bright in the bottom left of the sky.
An image with virtually no light other than from cars and stars, where less is more. Shot on my night visit to capture the Milky Way in a place where quiet is very quiet!
Low cloud, billowing up from the valleys, and cresting over the A628 Woodhead Pass at twilight. Meanwhile the traffic, oblivious to the scene, threads its way through the frosty landscape.
The Woodhead Pass is the main route across the Pennines from Sheffield to Manchester.
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This picture was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Take-a-View Landscape Photographer of the Year in the UK and was awarded a Commended result.
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Ominous grey clouds over Woodhead Moors in Derbyshire. Snow flurries have settled on the hills in wind-blown patterns.
This image shows a close-up detail of the background and sky.
Painted in Barnsley.
Acrylic on canvas 20" x 16" 2020
The other of this evenings spots. Really loving the colours that this tool gives out. Did the walls down each side then an inverted rainbow behind the gate and a light smattering of good old el wire to finish off proceedings. Oh and a bit of lenser in the canopy for good measure. Happy days :)
A palette knife painting of a view from Woodhead Pass of the Pennine Moors in Derbyshire. There is snow on the hills which contrasts starkly with the dark stone walls, heather and battered old fencing.
16" x 12" acrylic on canvas.
bit of a trek to get up to some of these but well worth it just off woodhead pass A628 woodhead water falls
An acquired slide of which I know nothing about, other than the picture was taken in July 1967 and the group are standing next to a Morris Commercial J Type van. I would hazard a guess that they are probably on some kind of outdoors activities outing and, or youth hostelling in Wales, …or the like. The old gas lamp and stonewall suggests to me a railway station, or halt?
The van carries a London registration, possibly an ex Royal Mail or GPO vehicle, especially as it looks to have rubber moulded wings. The Kodak Kodachrome transparency has deteriorated considerably, with the enamel badly crazed in parts; possible because it has been stored in less than ideal conditions?
Any help in identifying the location, people or anything about the scene would be most helpful. Thanks
Only just in Derbyshire, St James is situated up a short track off Woodhead Pass (A628), above the string of 6 reservoirs.
Originally a wayside chapel, it was built by Edward Shaa, Lord of the Manor in 1487. The present church dates from the C18th with a C20th turret. It wasn't open, but apparently is still used.
Only just in Derbyshire, situated on the Woodhead Pass (A628), are a string of 6 reservoirs, of which Woodhead is the highest and last to be completed.
It was constructed along the River Etherow by John Frederick Bateman, between 1847 - 1877, to supply water to Manchester. An Act of Parliament gave permission for its construction, guaranteeing 121 million gallons of water a week. I'm not sure if it's still fulfilling this, but it was very low in August 2022 when we called.
The sheep were grazing along the dam head.
Lovely 74 (s)miles this afternoon on Himmy..
Busy out there!
So many bikes!! 😁
Most waved or nodded some as usual ignored me!!
The Think Bike sign is from the
Road safety guys..
From the other day..
Between Penistone and Langsett looking at the silver snake on the horizon, which is the first part of Woodhead Pass..
Bit blurry from here but looks busy on the uphill part.!
So didn't go that way!!
Nice jaunt this eve with my pal Paul. this being the second location of the eve after mooching around in a creepy forest for a bit then got on the bridal path and saw this big puddle. Light wand out and ballooned about for a while. Scared a few sheep ans back home for a brew. Happy days.
Concluding a grand day out courtesy of Mr Williams & his splendid velocipede-a classic view of the western portals of the three Woodhead tunnels from between the staggered platforms partially built across the River Etherow. Despite the seemingly impregnable palisade fencing across the entrance to the 1954 tunnel access was freely available to the more determined explorer-the access point clearly apparent slightly to left of centre. Over on the left the lights inside the Down bore shine invitingly although it would be over 26 years before that pair were ticked off.