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Recently, I have been working with Lightbulb Design on a couple of projects. The main project is for the Marsden Moor National Trust Estate and still receiving some spit and polish so I will keep it under wraps for now but as a bit of an aside, one of my images is been used on the Holmfirth Artweek website (also designed by the good people at Lightbulb). The website has been designed by Lightbulb as a gift to artweek in recognition of the money they raise for Macmillan Cancer relief. I was shocked at how the level of activity that artweek has – Last year they raised £650k and exhibited 18,000 artists work! Makes me feel a bit small that I was only one of them!

Anyway.. The main reason for this blog – photography!! The Marsden Moor project got me itching to return to the hills again. I headed for Raven Stones on the edge of the National Trust estate – at 500m up, it was a bit on the breezy side and, been the daft sod I can sometimes be, I’d left my car in a hurry and forgot to pick up my tripod. Oh well.. Things didn’t work out too badly..

Watching The Sun Go Down

West Nab Trig Point - Meltham

Fenced Off - Grass Tuffs On The Moor

Bob

Towards Rebrook and Swellands Reservoirs near Marsden

Good Night

Never one to be put off my freezing conditions, I headed up into the hills above Holmfirth to capture some pre-sunrise landscapes. Well worth getting cold for (and driving round a few road closed signs!)

Keep watching this post.. I’m going to keep adding more pics over the coming days.. Merry Christmas!

These are taken around Saddleworth / Meltham moor. As always – prints are available.

Snow Covered Wall

Wessenden Wall In The Snow

Day Break Over Holmfirth

Gateway To The Big Freeze - Bradshaw Moor, Holmfirth

Gateway To The Big Freeze - Holmfirth

December 27, 2010
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Just when you think you’re all alone in the middle of nowhere, you get spotted! I was out walking the moors above Digley Reservoir (Bradshaw) one morning last week, admiring a stunning sunrise and thinking I had it all to myself – later in the day I was told by a friend that they had spotted me from Issues Road on the other side of the Valley!

I managed to find time to take a couple of photos whilst I was there but I also spent quite a bit of time sat on a dry stone wall just taking in the view. There is something really special about the sunrises in this area of the Peak District.. I hear from a friend that the intensity of the sunrise and sunsets are partly down to the dust in the air coming over from Manchester – so Manchester is good for something after all!

April 11, 2010
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Return To Meltham

Mar 182010

Back to the more local and familiar landscapes around Holmfirth!

Winter sure is hanging on in there this year. Last week I made a diversion to my normal route home to Honley to pay a visit to West Nab that tower over the village of Meltham. Seems that there is quite a bit of snow up there still! It is one of my favourite spots to head to for a bit of fresh air.. Access is via a permissive path but I believe that most of the area to the south of the path is open access (if only the ordinance survey maps onBing showed the right to roam areas..). Careful where you do go up there though.. Some of the land is part of a firing range and is used for grouse hunting.

The grit stone boulders strewn across the is evidence of the powers that shaped this landscape during the last ice age.

On my way up:

My Rocks, West Nab - Meltham

At the top! I like the line made by the cloud.This shot was taken north of the Rocking Stone – considered sacred by some.

West Nab's Snowy Top - Meltham

I was pretty much out of light after that.. I’ll hopefully head back up there again soon, now that the days are getting longer.

March 18, 2010
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The Big Freeze

Jan 182010

It finally seems as though the big freeze of January 2010, if not finished, has gone dormant. The snow is almost gone apart from on the top of West Nab and I didn’t need to dress up like an arctic explorer today. I have mixed feelings about that because it has led to some great photo opportunities but it has made it hard to get anywhere (hence most of my shots seem to have been from in and around the Holmfirth, Meltham and Marsden area recently!)

I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite shots taken over the last couple of weeks here.