This time the weather played ball....

[JPS]

Some of you may have seen my thread about going out for some photos from the Peak District and the weather being not too good for landscape photos here (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=31413). Well not to be out done, I thought I'd chance the journey again and try today to get some of the photos I wanted yesterday.

I went late on in the evening so that I could get some of the shadows that are cast over the hillsides around the reservoirs of the north Derbyshire area. I quite like these ones, made the journey worth it for me anyway.

There was a fair bit of haze in the air unfortunately, but you have to work with it don't you.... anyway - the obligatory polariser-filter-sky shot first (press F11 to make your screen bigger to fit this one in, then F11 again to go back if you need to)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View222.jpg

Then about a 110º turn to my right and the nice long(ish) shadows

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View.jpg

Saw this house/farm over the other side of the valley so zoomed in as far as I could - this is not cropped at all just resized for this here website

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View3.jpg

The above three photos were taken just above the town of Hathersage.

Now a short drive down the road to where I was yesterday, Ladybower Reservoir. This one looks over to the Ashopton Bridge

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View4.jpg

A couple of boats in the water

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View9.jpg

Scanning all around the hillside, I saw this 'quaint' cottage, my god the wife would like to live here....she loves these kind of places

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View8.jpg

Moved around to the afore mentioned Ashopton Bridge to look back to where I was just parked up and saw this distant scene, with the Ladybower dam wall at the bottom of the frame and the farmstead and hill side way off into the distance

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View5.jpg

Did a 90º turn and got this shot of the sun and sunbeams

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View7.jpg

Now it was about 40 minutes to sunset and as you are high up and the hills get in the way, I made off down the Snake Pass into Glossop. Then up along the Woodhead Pass and got parked up ready for the sun to leave it's mark on the hillsides next to the Woodhead Reservoir.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/JPS1/View6.jpg

All in all a better day than yesterday and I'm pretty happy with these shots, and most of the others I took today. Oh and I went on my own this time as the wife was out at a wedding. So I could stop and start and park up where I liked and had no-one to nag about it, bliss :lol:

[Woodsy]

Oh now we are talking! Absolutely love shots 2 and 4! Really like the colour gradients in the second shot, as well as the composition with lots of lines leading into the image, spot on exposure as well imo.

Shot 4 works perfectly imo. The lighting on the fields, water and bridge is spot on, and the sky, although classically "not as interesting as it could be" suits the shot well.

The last shot doesn't really do much for me if im being totally honest, I feel it needs something more in the shot, a stronger focal point perhaps. It ahs good lines leading the eye accross the image, it's just they don't seem to naturally stop anywhere.

Really like all the other shots, but two and four get my vote. lovely stuff!

[Gandhi]

all very nice but 2 & 4 do it for me. Just for the quality of the light!

[photostar_1]

all very nice but 2 & 4 do it for me. Just for the quality of the light!

:agree:

[BALDYMAN]

Yes agree shot No 2 steals it lovely light but like them all

[Venomator]

The gorgeous light and lovely rolling hills in the distance really do make #2 an outstanding image in this set ... :thumbs: ... but they are all super shots and really made your return trip well worthwhile imgo ... :D




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[JPS]

Thanks for all your comments, seems like number 2 is the winner then..... :) I think it was worth while the return journey Venomator. Can't let the weather stand in the way of a photographer can we??? :lol: