Roach Valley Way
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Roaches Gate - we started our 4 mile circular walk from the Roaches Tea Rooms. This photo was taken near to Doxey Pool, one of the highest points on our walk and just before sunset
The Roaches is a huge rural area with marvellous rock formations and near to the market town of Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
115. Gate or Gates - 116 pictures in 2016
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A meetup with Mike last night to shoot The Roaches at sunset. Forecast looked promising but after some nice golden light at the Valkyrie viewpoint it turned into a hazy sunset with hardly any cloud.
The midges and flying ants were out in force so after wandering around the South End of the ridge we made our way to Roach End. The sky was pretty uninspiring but I do quite like this regular composition with a square crop.
Ended up at The Roaches on Tuesday morning after checking Chrome Hill where the inversion was at it's thickest, and had a good walk to Hen Cloud and back.
This is looking out towards Cheshire where the inversion/mist was still lingering. Finally broke around midday.
Detour for the obligatory Roach End Barn shot on the way back to the van for a warm.
Happy Treemendous Tuesday.
Different angle of Roach End Barn with Tittesworth Reservoir in the distance on a freezing cold April morning.
Only saw one other person up by the Roaches trig point and he'd made his way down to the barn judging by the footprints in the fresh snow. One of the oddest mornings I've been out to date.
Sunset at The Roaches in the Peak District
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The Roaches
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The ruined barn at Roach End in the Peak District National Park - near Leek - isn't easy to get to but it makes a good subject for photography all year round. And especially so when the weather is as changeable as it was that day. It looks cold and was cold!
The Roaches, near to Leek, is an enchanting place; a prominent and spectacular rocky ridge high up in the the Southern Peak District. Steeped in legend and amazing wildlife, I'm grateful every day to live within it's shadow.
Taken in the early morning sunshine, in Suffolk. Very messy image but that’s often the case with the Bittern skulking about in the reeds. An archive image, not previously posted
The Roaches in Staffordshire is a Peak District gem. Located above Leek. The impressive rugged steep gritstone ridge towers above the surrounding area and the main road into Leek.
A nice but slightly disappointing morning at the Roaches.
Very nice sunrise this morning. Unfortunately I missed all the colour in the sky - I had to park a fair distance away and walk in because of ice all a long the Roaches road. Then I just had 10 mins at the top before having to go back down for work :D. Not enough time to look for a really good composition sadly.
Still, lovely being out in the snow. I haven't seen so much untouched snow up here. Also bumped into a very well-known YouTuber so expect expect to see many more people here the next time it snows!
In the foreground with Tittesworth reservoir behind. A sunshine and showers sort of day, with some dramatic winter light at times.
I couldn't do decorating for more than a couple of hours. My body wouldn't allow it. So I headed up to The Roaches again for a bit of a cold and lonely walk, where I thought there might at least be some nice light and perhaps a nice sunset as it dipped over Tittesworth. But when the light came strong I was down amongst the trees and I only popped up to get a quick hand held shot a minute or so before the sun weakened as it hid below a bank of cloud hugging the horizon.
A photo from earlier in the year up on The Roaches in Staffordshire
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My first trip to Roach End nr Leek to capture some great views.
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Hi been busy bodging the DIY this weekend so another image from last Sunday at the Roaches , thanks for looking :):)
Winter's gales bend the battered trees against the hillside as the moon's soft glow bathes the snowy slope.
Or in other words, a small section of sand I picked out on Fascadale beach. This is art isn't it? Virtual landscapes. So much more imagination than....landscape images. I'm trying to develop a new photographic genre. Do you think they will consider these sort of images in Landscape Photographer of the Year? The sand on the beach is landscape is it not?
I thought it was time I grabbed a shot of the entire Roaches area at sundown. Managed to get Bosley, Hen Cloud, Roaches, Ramshaw and Shuttlingslow all together.
Had a run out to the Roaches yesterday, somewhere I have wanted to get to while the heather is in bloom ( I missed it by a couple of weeks last year ).
There was thick fog when I got there so It was a bit of a wait before I got the camera out of the bag. Thankfully the fog lifted just after sunrise to reveal Hen Cloud in the distance.
Unsure why Ive not shared this portrait version from The Roaches until today. Ive shared it on social and its probably one of my favourites from here.
Inversion, clouds and some interesting little flowers in the foreground.
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I found a VW Beetle pun in a back road Volkswagen graveyard in Nounan, Idaho. The abandoned bugs looked out of place in the rural valley.
You can feel you are in another world when you climb up into the mists. Everything is strange. You can't see far. The air smells damp. Sounds are muffled. You're alone. Enclosed. It can feel like you might never see another person again. Strange. A place to wonder, wander and lose touch with reality.
And come out again, and see sunshine, friends, smiles and hear laughter. Not just grey.
These are The Roaches, the rocks, upon which happiness is built: rocks we pass by on our way to somewhere else.