With the format of Hive being geared towards blogging, I feel the need to post more than one image in a post. If I were to post one image only, then the post might largely go unnoticed and not many may bother to read what I've written. I often venture out in to the night and come back with only one or two images and that particularly applies to night landscape photography. So when posting to Hive, one or two images doesn't cut the mustard.
This is a collection of recent images shot over many nights out in the Peak District and beyond where I never bothered to post them in this place.
The Long and Winding Road....to Edale
We've had a "sprinkling" of snow recently which made the hills of the Peak District white. It took me a few days to find time to get over to the Peak. I took a bit of gamble in that the snow may well have melted. Even as close as a mile away as we drove to this location, the ground was bereft of snow. But as we climbed the hill leading to this place, the snow was conveniently still there.
I've shot from this PoV before but not with a Sony 14mm G Master lens. I was keen to see how this lens performed in this scene. And I'm pretty pleased with what I got:
Experiments with a 65 x 24 crop
I can't believe I ever got to my time of life without ever knowing that a 65 x 24 crop was a thing. It turns out the 14mm G Master is suited to this crop:
Cheedale Nights
I have quite a few images on my hard drives which have never seen the light of day and this is an example. In Chee Dale valley is this series of stepping stones over the water. A fellow lightpainter (not on Hive) stood on one of the stones while another around the corner out of sight waved lights in the dark.
St. Benet's Abbey, the return
If I'm driving over in to the Norfolk area, I simply cannot resist popping in to St. Benet's Abbey for another shot. St.Benet's is a fairly unique place where an abbey with monks was establised and then dissolved by King Henry VIII in the 15 th century. Then if I remember correctly, sometime in the 18th century, this windmill was erected using part of the remaining abbey structure to save on building materials.
It's an eerie place to shoot in the dark, with the shrill scream of foxes and all sorts of other murderous noises! Probably not a place to visit alone but I keep going back!
Harboro Rocks by night
I went back for another go at shooting star trails at Harboro Rocks in the Peak District with the promise of clear skies. Sadly the weather forecast was way off so had to settle for shooting a night landscape with a hint of stars.
Out of Space
If I see a set of concrete steps on a hillside with a sky as a backdrop, it would have been rude not to shoot this. These stairs were at Harboro Rocks and next time I'm going back here with a volunteer to pose on the steps!
This was just a simple 180 degree camera rotation with two different colour gels for each rotation. I keep looking at this thinking I should have used the same colour on both rotations! There's always a next time!
Flip Faffery
I love it when the foreground appears as textures in the sky. This is just a simple 180 degree rotation with a remotely triggered flashgun behind the tree.
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I usually specialise in shooting lightpainting images but occasionally dabble in urbex, landscape and artistic model photography. I'm always on the lookout for someone to collaborate with; the social side of photography is always good!
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