by alastair | Apr 12, 2016 | News, Peak District
An early morning walk with the dog out on Stanage Edge from Denis Knoll car park rewarded me with this shot through the early morning murk down to Hathersage in the Peak District in the valley below. If you look closely you can just make out abandoned mill stones in...
by alastair | Mar 10, 2016 | News, Peak District
A quick dash out before work to see if my favourite mill pond had iced over (it hadn’t), allowed me to enjoy a wintery moonlight walk with the dog in the pre-dawn light of the Peak District. Save for owls in the old oaks around me the place with a thin veneer...
by alastair | Feb 26, 2016 | News, Peak District
There had been a bit of snow, but not enough to gather and lie on the ground. It was however bitterly cold when I ventured at first up on to Stanage Edge in Peak District and then worked my way down beneath the edge in to the hinterland that is strewn with...
by alastair | Feb 22, 2016 | News, Peak District
Swallett Falls, lies just outside Foolow in the Peak District. Blink and you might miss it as you pass on the road to the plague village of Eyam. The falls drop about 50 feet in to what is a sink hole, the water comes in at the top and travels to the other end of...
by alastair | Feb 21, 2016 | News, Peak District
I’ve been exploring the edge of Stanage Edge in the Peak District lately. The Peak District is littered with abandoned millstones, no where more than Stanage. These stones were abandoned in place when the market for millstones from the Peak District (millstone...
by alastair | Feb 7, 2016 | News, Peak District, Scotland
Over the weekend I had the chance to develop some rather old films, one dating back over a year and the other about 7 months. Two of the films were of pinhole photography which is a much simpler form of photography than you may usually encounter. A wooden box, with...
