by alastair | Dec 17, 2017 | News, Peak District
Last weekend in the Peak District, there was what has become an increasingly rare thing in the UK (at least on the lower levels) – snow in December. Snow for me has that great effect of extenuating the features of the land, particularly low lying features like...
by alastair | Nov 6, 2017 | News, Peak District
I started this Autumn thinking that it was going to be over before I had a chance to go out there and take anything – as what had happened with the “heather season” this year (a full two weeks early I think!). That said, it is now mid October and...
by alastair | Oct 1, 2017 | News, Peak District
Managed to get out yesterday for an attempt at a bit of dawn photography over looking the Ladybower Reservoir. As is the way of things in landscape photography the weather forecast and reality didn’t align. But that doesn’t mean all was lost. The...
by alastair | Sep 3, 2017 | News, Peak District
I started off the day wanting to shoot the hot air balloon lift at Chatsworth looking down on it from the very edge of Baslow Edge in the Peak District, but I also wanted to catch a bit of pre-dawn light over the Peak District first of all. In the end the balloon...
by alastair | Aug 26, 2017 | News, Peak District
I consider myself very lucky to find myself living on the edge of the Peak District, combining a love for exploring the land and photography I try my best to capture some of the beauty the Peak District has to offer. I had to chance to venture out in to the Peaks for...
by alastair | Jan 3, 2017 | News, Peak District
Years ago (25 I think!) whilst studying geography at secondary school, one of the examples of controlling access to the land was the Derwent Reservoir visitor management system. If memory serves, access was controlled via the main car park (at Fairholmes) just...
