I saw this coil of wire perched on top of the stone wall by the side of the path. I thought it was an interesting feature and took a few shots from different angles. I had intended to post just one picture but couldn't decide which I liked best. Of the ones I took these two were my clear favourites but trying to choose one was more difficult.
If pushed I would say the second is the best image but you might have a different opinion...
These views are taken from Twisleton Lane, an old Roman road which leads from Raven Ray into Kingsdale. I was particularly keen to capture the sky and the dramatic clouds above the valley. I also like to dry stone wall, a traditional feature of the English landscape which adds some interest to the first and third pictures
I really like the second picture and I was intrigued by the cloud above a cloud, almost enveloping it.
After this I headed down the road to Beezley Falls and views of Ingleborough and I will share pictures from there in the days to come
This is probably the most famous and most photographed of the waterfalls along the trail. The river falls 14 metres into the pool and this limestone basin was apparently once part of a sub-tropical sea.
This spot was used as inspiration by the renowned British artist William Turner as you can see from the sketch if you click on the link which will take you to a shot of a sketch in Turner's sketch book.
When I first visited this spot some years ago it was absolutely heaving, the ledge beneath the falls was covered by so many people enjoying the sun and picnicking on the rocks so getting a good shot of the falls was impossible. On this particular day although the weather was lovely as it was mid week and early March there were very few people around and so I had plenty of time to get some pictures without getting any random strangers in the shot.
Having posted a few random/abstract images over the past few days I have gone for some more "traditional" views of the first series of falls at Ingleton for today's selection.
Yesterdays shots of the spray were from First Pecca Falls which is quite a spectacular drop although of course you can't really tell from those shots.
The first of today's images are of a sequence called Pecca Twin Falls which are further up the valley at the top of a steep climb. They're really quite picturesque and I loved standing here watching the water pouring over and listening to the sound as it thundered past.
The final image today is of Hollybush Spout. I don't know where the name comes from but what I like about this section is the way the rock face to the left of the image has been eroded and there is a significant indent showing just how much force comes over the falls.
Tomorrow I will post a few more pictures of other falls further along the trail so if you like these pictures be sure to come back tomorrow.
So I have finally got around to some of the pictures of waterfalls from Ingleton. I have some nice shots of the cascades and of Thornton Force but while watching the first of the main falls (Pecca Falls) I decided to experiment with different shutter speeds to capture the spray at the edge of the main falls. By using a shutter speed of 1/80 or 1/100 I found that it got the effect I wanted with the droplets having the appearance of shooting stars or the flying sparks of fireworks. I am really pleased with these pictures and hope you will be too.
These three pictures are of the same section of a footbridge across a river but taken from different angles and so they look like completely different things. The first picture looks as though it is upright rather than horizontal, it is smooth and shiny from the wear of many feet passing on it. The second shot although of the same section of the bridge is more angular and the texture changes as you look from left to right. My favourite shot is the third one, I like the perspective and the way the focus changes the further into the image that you look.
Just one picture for today, it is of a rocky outcrop on the path at Ingleton. As I walked up the path my first impression of this was that it looked a bit like the face of Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King but at second glance I wasn't so sure. Either way there is quite clearly a face in this picture and so I thought it was an interesting shot to share.
This week I have been off work again and although I had stuff to do around the house some of the week I did manage to get out with my camera twice and I have a nice selection of pictures to keep me going for a while.
On Wednesday I couldn't decide what to do until a friend suggested that I take a trip up to Ingleton Falls in Yorkshire where you can walk around a 4 - 5 mile trail by some quite spectacular waterfalls. I had been many years ago when my children were small and before I had a decent camera too so I packed my gear into the car and headed off in the hope of good weather and some great images.
Well the weather was really good and I will leave it to you to decide about the images but thanks to my friends suggestion I had a great day out and got some much needed time with my camera in the countryside.
So I can tell you will be wondering, if it was a waterfall trail where are the pictures of waterfalls? All in good time; because as much as I want to share them I also have other shots that I think are interesting and that deserve a spot here on my blog. I am also excited about the pictures I took on my other day out in Snowdonia but I am going to have to wait to share those too.
The pictures I have chosen for today are of the Money Tree, a feature along the riverside path at Ingleton. I remember this from my first visit all those years ago and how at that time we hammered a coin into the tree with the children. Now there seems like there is no room for any more money and people have taken to hammering coins in an adjacent tree trunk.
I don't know how or why this tradition started but it is an interesting feature, there is a similar one at Bolton Abbey and I recall adding my own coins to that one on my last visit. I really like the way the coins follow the contours and the grain in the bark, I like the texture it creates and I like the colours as the coins have become worn and weathered.
