Blogs tagged "Derbyshire"

Tonight was interesting. I spent an hour and half in complete darkness on the moors. It was very cold, but I had a rug and coat and ePHOTOzine hat to warm me up. Why? To photograph my first proper star trail...and it's going to be addictive. I used the Olympus EP-2 as the Pentax K20D is not fast ...

I'm embarrassed to say this is my first ever viewing of a sunrise in Derbyshire. I was put off many years ago when I cycled from Hillsborough to Fox house to do my first sunrise and there was thick cloud and the light was awful. I've been meaning to set the alarm for the last seven years bu...

I took the cycle out to Ladybower today and cycled round the 25km route to Packhorse Bridge at Slippery Stones and back. Today's photo365 is the bridge, a 17th century one, moved upstream brick by brick when the reservoir was created. It's the first time I've been back to this spot for about 20 yea...

Well I wasn't actually chasing a rainbow, I was after a sunset, but once again it failed to materialise on one of the edges in Derbyshire. This evening I went on Stanage Edge, and saw some spectacular light, stormy weather, sunbursts, dramatic clouds and this rainbow. I just had the Olympus...

What a day...miserable most of the day at home weather wise but I saw a break and thought it would be worth going out to Derbyshire with the Lee Filters Big Stopper to get some cloud movement shots against rocks. How wrong I was. It was cold and extremely windy. On the edges so windy I nearl...

Probably my favourite photo from my Photo365 series so far. Almost like a present following the heavy week I've had. It's a Highland cow taken on Baslow Edge in Derbyshire I was out testing the new Tamron 18-270mm lens on a Nikon D90. I'd gone to photograph a sunset and although the sun broke t...