Bakerstonedale Moore near Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
A place within relatively easy reach of my home and yet also a place that I have never photographed until now. Bakerstonedale is very atmospheric, bracing and moody!
Tried a bit of bleach bypass on this one, probably a bit overdone but I like it.
Boat and float, out in the bay at low tide. An enchanted evening spent on the rocky beach watching odd stragglers and an impromptu beach party gather around a large fire.
Bails close to Ravenscar — seen on my cycle ride from Scarborough
to Robin Hoods Bay.
Tempest and Tree
Hillside Slumber
Line to Nowhere
A couple of weeks ago I cycled from Scarborough to Whitby along the dedicated trailway — the former Scarb to Whitby railway route. This is a location that is absolutely loaded with significant childhood memories for me and none of it has changed in the slightest. The ride was fun, a bit grim leaving Scarbourough but the section from Ravenscar to Whitby via Robin Hoods Bay is just glorious with some beautiful coastal views. I have many more photos which may eventually find their way to this blog and other places.
Evening Tide
Mr Livingstone I Presume?
Ravenscar from Robin Hoods Bay
The view West from White Nancy, Bollington, Cheshire.
I think this was my first visit to Kerridge Hill and White Nancy of 2011. March 13th was the first reasonably pleasant day of the year — shirt sleeve weather — and the cloud was good! I just knew it would be a good day for Nancy. Snapped on my Sigma 10 -20 lens and headed out for Kerridge in anticipation.
New gatework at White Nancy
Last of the snow scene photos from winter 2010. The image has been treated with the intention of replicating the look of traditional printing on gold toned Ilford grade 2 fiber based paper. Minimalism is one of the most difficult “design categories” to achieve in landscape photography but having much of the ground covered in snow does help.
Infrared treated with vignette – image of light snow in the Northern fields around the village of Prestbury in Cheshire.
I trudged through the fields (in inappropriate footwear) mesmerised by the transformation of the landscape and the sense of frost bitten (very painful) toes didn’t seem to matter at all. This total submersion in the art and craft of pictures taking and simple joy of recording my environment is one of the highest forms of pleasure that I know.
I do like the way these conditions make the landscape look so much more photogenic.
Climbing up the hill, steeper than it looks due to geometric distortion of a very wide-angle lens. I had to grab on to that barbed wire to get up here! Coming down was even more fun and I virtually slid all the way down on my backside holding precious camera aloft at all times — of course! I was taken by the simplicity of this scene, which has been enhanced by the optical effect of the lens. Can’t remember how I treated this image but it has been deliberately enhanced to create a more high key effect. It was (and still is) very cold indeed!
I am now preparing for my first ever gallery show which will be comprised of mostly B&W work with a mixture of landscape and ‘found object’ – like studies — joy of joys indeed!
Rainow – Lowdown
Last Saturday I rode (cycled) up to Rainow in Cheshire, it’s not too far from me but it is hard going on the way out, climbing up hill most of the way! Rainow is quite a special place (for me) because it marks the boundary with Cheshire and the Peak District National Park — Rainow is like my gateway to the peaks and it is here where Cheshire flat lands give way to more hilly rugged landscapes.
I tried to get some decent landscape shots but there was so much haze that many look too flat with no sense of depth, obviously those images just don’t do this magnificent landscape any justice so I resorted to my familiar technique of observing smaller details — mostly. Many more opportunities abound!
The Bends Are Sharp — on Macclesfield Road
Rainow
