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03/11/2018

Loch Katrine from the top of Ben A’an: December 2017
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Ben A’an is situated above Loch Katrine and Loch Achray in the Trossachs, with its highest point being at 461m. The name Ben A’an is a generous Anglicisation by Sor Walter Scott. Its original name is uncertain, but many believe it may have been Am Binnean meaning “the pinnacle” or “the small pointed peak”
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Whilst in the Trossachs we attempted to capture the spectacular landscape, climbing hills such as the cobbler. But found that there was always too much cloud cover on the bigger hills. We therefore decided to head up Ben A’an one evening, situated close to where we were staying at HPB - Tigh Mor Trossachs. It took 32 minutes from our apartments door to the top of the peak, and 12 minutes down so it was a nice easy walk both ways. The views at the top were spectacular though with panoramic 360 degrees views of the national park. We also met a few locals at the top who recommended camping at the top to get one of the best views of the stars in the uk.
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17/02/2018

Chatsworth House: December 2017
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Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, home to the Cavendish family since 1549 when Sir William Cavendish bought all the property in the area after being persuaded by his wife Bess of Hardwick to sell his property in Suffol and relocate to her native county. Bess began to build the new house in 1553, selecting the site near the river, drained by a series of reservoirs. Sir William died in 1557 before the house was completed, but Bess finished the house in the 1560’s and lived there with her fourth husband George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
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With all the snow around Derbyshire during December, we decided it would be a perfect opportunity to head up to Stanage Edge and get the shot of the famous millstones that we have previously posted. On our way home we decided to stop at Chatsworth House for breakfast and a quick walk around the grounds when we took this shot. It was a completely unplanned shot, but we liked the composition of the bridge and the house when we got home and were looking through the shots. Let us know what you guys think!
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16/12/2017

Snowy Millstones at Stanage Edge: December 2017
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Millstone production was historically the main industry in the Peak District, with Hathersage and Baslow being the two main centres of production. The stones were quarried by individual stone masons up on the hillside, before being transported down the hill and taken away. However in the mid 18th century, white bread became popular, with new French millstones being used to make white flour rather than the grey coloured flour produced by the Peak District gritstone. This has left hundreds of unsold millstones still lying abandoned today exactly where they were produced.
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With all the snow around Derbyshire last weekend we decided it would be a perfect opportunity to head up to Stanage Edge and get a shot of the famous millstones. With clear sky’s and high pressure forecast for Thursday night we chose Friday morning in the hope of getting some cloud inversions in Hope Valley. Unfortunately the weather changed and we saw a cloudy sunrise and no cloud inversions. However with a 8 second exposure we were able to use the clouds to create interesting colours and compositions. Let us know what you guys think!
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25/09/2017

Sunrise above the clouds from Alport Height: September 2017
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With the high pressure and clear sky's around on Thursday night we couldn't resist the early rise on Friday morning to get a sunrise shot from above the clouds somewhere in the Peak District. With little time to prepare and research a location we chose to go to one of our favourite sights at Alport Heights to shot a reverse sunset, something we've not shot before. Unfortunately the shot didn't quiet turn out as we planned as by the time the sun had risen above the hill behind us the inverted clouds had begun to rise out of the valley. We still like the neutral colours of this shot with the contrast between the frosty grass and the autumn colours of the wild red heather looking plant. What do you guys think? Did anyone else venture out yesterday morning and get a good shot of the inverted cloud or heading out tomorrow morning?
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29/08/2017

Stonehenge Sunset: August 2017
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Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments, with the first henge monument on the site being built around 5,000 years ago. We are still not sure how or why the monument was built in the first place, with the bluestones being brought from the Preseli Hills over 150 miles away, however this just adds to the mysteriousness of what is the only surviving lintelled stone circle in the world.
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We hope everybody enjoyed their bank holiday, we spent ours driving home from Dorset after a two week trip around the south of England. This involved stopping off at Stonehenge for two nights at Stonehenge Campsite in a lovely little glamping pod just down the road from the stones. For this shot we were hoping to get a reverse sunset, with the sun lighting the stones and making them glow blue as we had seen with similar stones in Wales. However both nights we were there is was cloudy and meant the sun never really came out, leaving the stones looking dark and murky. We therefore took two photos in this shot, one shot of the stones themselves, and one shot with a 1.5 ND grad filter to enable us to bring out the colour in the sky whilst maintaining the detail in the stones. We don't usually like to over process our shots like this, but felt it was necessary in this instance with the unfortunate time restrictions. Let us know what you think and keep a look out for the rest of our photos from our summer trip across the south of England, with extra photos being posted on Facebook.
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18/06/2017

Crib Goch Summit: April 2017
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Crib Goch is a knife-edge arête in Snowdonia National Park which peaks at 923 metres above sea level. All routes taken up Crib Goch are considered mountaineering routes in the winter and grade 1 scrambles during the summer, with the exposed ridge with precipices below resulting in several fatalities over the years. It is therefore not a route that should be taken by inexperienced mountaineers.
Crib Goch is also one of the wettest spots in the U.K., with an average of 4,473 millimetres if rainfall per year, which is not hard to believe during our ascent of the mountain!
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Continuing with our trip to Wales during the Easter holidays, we decided to climb Snowdon on a very sunny day where there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We took the 'bad step' route, climbing to the top of Crib Goch where we were hoping for some spectacular views along the arête, but instead were greeted with dense cloud cover and howling winds. We then continued along the ridge, with the wind and weather bringing the one benefit of there not being anyone else climbing Crib Goch, before heading up Snowdon where the visibility was equally as poor; and heading back down the Pyg track where the tranquility we had enjoyed being the only ones on Crib Goch was diminished by the abundance of people and tourists as you would expect. We still enjoyed the walk though, with the decent seeing us slowly return to the warmth and sun that we he been misled by in the morning. A big thank you again to HPB Henllys for the great stay in a great location for accessing Anglesey and North Wales
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15/06/2017

Trwyn Du Lighthouse and Puffin Island: April 2017
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Puffin Island is an uninhabited island off the Easter tip of Anglesey, previously known as Priestholm in English and Ynys Lannog in Welsh. The Island is a Special Protection Area due to its colony of over 750 pairs of Great Cormorants. Previously the Atlantic Puffins, from which the island gets its modern English name, bred in great numbers with over 2,000 pairs recorded. However after the Brown Rat was accidentally introduced to the island in the late 19th century, the Puffins numbers began to decline rapidly. However after a rat poisoning programme was launched in 1998 the Puffins numbers have slowly shown to increase with the rats now eradicated.
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Sorry for not posting for a while, but now that exams are over we should hopefully be back to normal and be slowly working our way through processing our photos from out trip to Wales over the next few weeks. . Once again thank you to HPB Henllys for the great weekend on Anglesey. As always let us know what you think, feedback is always appreciated!
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17/04/2017

Trwyn Du Lighthouse: April 2017
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Trwyn Du Lighthouse is positioned between Dinmor Point near Penmon and Ynys Seriol (Puffin Island) at the eastern tip of Anglesey. Master Shipman had called for a lighthouse to be built here for some years, especially after the Rothsay Castle ran aground in 1831, killing 130 people on its way to the nearby city of Liverpool. The lighthouse was built between 1835-1838, becoming the first sea-washed tower with a stepped based design to discourage the huge upsurge of waves that had afflicted earlier lighthouses on the site.
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The Easter holidays saw us spend the Weekend on Anglesey, just up the coast from this spot at HPB Henllys. Keep an eye out for more photos of Anglesey and Snowdonia as we make out way through the weekends photos. As always let us know what you think, feedback is always appreciated!
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26/03/2017

Friday nights sunset from Alport Height: March 2017
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Alport Height was acquired by the National Trust in the Midlands in 1930, the first of a scenic nature in Derbyshire. It is the first hill over 1,000 ft within reach of Derby, with an abundance of free parking making it a great picnic site where you can enjoy spectacular views over the Derwent and Ecclesbourne valleys.
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With this weekends great weather we thought we would make the most of it and head out to Alport Heights to watch the sunset. This is a particular favourite sunset spot of ours, with the 20ft pillar of gritstone at the summit making a great focus point and giving photos a nice composition. Let us know what you think and share any photos you got this weekend!

26/03/2017

Large male lion guarding its zebra carcass, caught the night before. Although the open wounds on his face suggest the lionesses put up a fight for their kill. August 2016
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The lion is a member of the cat family, with a muscular body that has less bone mass than other animals of comparable size. The lions fore-body is very powerful, having the greatest strength of any cat except the tiger. This enables lions to deliver blows with its fore-paws heavy enough to break a zebras back.
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We originally uploaded this photo in colour, but now love the way this saturation brings out the fresh cuts on the lions face. The rangers at Kariega Game Reserve told us they had recently introduced some new females to the lion pride and the scars are wounds are a result of a 'few initial disagreements'.
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06/03/2017

The Suns rays hitting the village of Curbar from Curbar Edge: March 2017
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Another one from Curbar Edge yesterday from before the rain, when the light looked good and promised a good sunset. However the rain came down and meant we missed most of the sunset, still managed to get a few shots in before and after though. Let us know what you think.
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We had to upload this one as a JPEG as the original file was too big for Facebook, but if you want a copy of the original photo then please let us know as all photos are available to print.

25/02/2017

Sunrise at Stanage Edge: November 2016
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Stanage is the largest and, in our opinion, most impressive of the gritstone edges in the Peak District. The edge stretches a length of approximately 3.5 miles and is visible from all the way down in the Hope Valley.
The edge is made of one of the finer gritstones, making it ideal for rock-climbing. However until as late as the twentieth century the edge was a private grouse moor, to which access was forbidden. This forced early rock-climbing pioneers to bribe the gamekeepers with barrels of beer in order to climb the edge.
However, following the Second World War access restrictions began to be removed, meaning floods of climbers and walkers can now regularly access the edge.
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It's always fun hiking in the early hours of the morning in the dark in the hope of catching a good sunrise. Luckily this time we weren't disappointed with a good amount of cloud coverage and a nice sun rise.
However whenever you are out walking please remember to be respectful of the surrounding environment, especially in delicate and over-used ecosystems like Stanage Edge, always sticking to the path and removing all your rubbish with you so that sites like these can continue to be enjoyed by everyone in the future.

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