Been a while since I took some photos. So yesterday I decided to head out of the house and go to the Peak District. I didn’t really have a place I was going to but ended up driving all the way to Mam Tor.
The weather was sunny as I left the house then clouded over as soon as I was driving, a little voice inside my head was going “Bloody Typical”. The clouds looked very ominous but I continued on anyhow and thought if it rains it rains, I’ll just get wet.
Upon arriving near Mam Tor I ditched the car and got out and as soon as I did the heavens opened up. I still decided to carry all my camera kit as you never know some little spark of inspiration may hit. The following pictures are some of the ones I quite liked.
I enjoy creating moody black and white images and the rain, hail, snow, blistering sun!, rain hail and wind all helped a little. I wasn’t really clear on an idea but there seems to be a theme of path ways running in the images.
I was a little silly and didn’t really tell anyone where I was going. It was just me and my dog Dylan. I decided not to follow the route of all the masses up over Mam Tor but head the opposite way along Rushup Edge. I got a little lost up in the boggy marshes as the rain hammered down and decided enough soggy feet was enough and took a route directly down the hills, which was very, very steep. One misplaced foot and I would have been a tumbling down the hills into a painful mess at the bottom. Great fun though and my dog seemed to love the challenge, even if he did look at me every now and then with a look of “are you serious?”
Once again they are not the most amazing pictures in the world but considering I don’t seem to take many photos anymore I can still create some things that are kind of interesting.
This was the first photo I took at the sign post of directions, my car can be seen somewhere off in the distance I think.
I really like lonely trees in the landscape, this isn’t an amazing picture as I saw this and thought perhaps this might be an idea to explore. But I didn’t really see anymore isolated trees out on my walk after this. Taken with my 10 stop ND filter but the result is anything amazing. Keep trying Gaz!
I wasn’t sure if this would work as there wasn’t a lot to keep an audiences interest but it was the incoming clouds that I liked. Again I used the 10 stop ND filter and got some kinda interesting results with the clouds. The wind wasn’t as strong as I hoped it would be though.
As I got down out of the boggy marshes the sun opened up. I found this old house/building by Jacobs Ladder and it would have looked much better with an overcast sky but as the sun was out took a picture any how.
I was trying so hard not to photograph water with the 10 stop ND filter but it had to be done. Super cheese tastic image.
And so ends my little trip to the Peak District. We returned to the car very muddy, very wet and but happy.
