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Last Light, Marsden Moor
In recent weeks, we have had a few rare days when the sun has set unimpeded by clouds at the horizon. I have been concentrating for a while on photographing the hills of Saddleworth, but these few photographs were taken just outside its borders, on Marsden Moor in Kirklees. Marsden Moor stretches from the Saddleworth boundary, where the A62 crosses the Pennines at Standedge, across to the so-called Nont Sarah’s road, the A640 from Denshaw to Huddersfield. From this road there is a panoramic view across the valley. A rocky outcrop is quickly accessed from Buckstones car park and there is an easy pleasant path along the top of the rocks with the opportunity…
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With PermaJet at the Photography Show, NEC
PermaJet ran some short talks at the Photography Show at the NEC this year and I agreed to be one of their team of lecturers to do three short talks on the Monday. Here I am with some prints made on Distinction paper, being aided and abetted by Joseph from the PermaJet team. Did you know that PermaJet also have a photography blog? You can learn lots of stuff here. Why not have a look at the updated range of papers. I love the Baryta papers and you can buy a test pack of the newly enhanced range. If you prefer the Smooth Fine Art Range, look here…or the textured fine art…
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Kinder Stones on Pots’n’Pans Hill
Today I’m preparing a new talk for Harrogate PS and it will include some local pictures of Saddleworth. I love being up high just before the sun sets and I found, in my back catalogue, some pictures of the Kinder Stones on top of our local hill, some of which I hadn’t really looked at before. The hill of Pots’n’Pans is easily accessed on foot from our back gate and takes my husband about half an hour to reach the top. I take longer! and I linger for long periods to take pictures as I go. There is a small abandoned quarry near the top and the remains of stones standing at…
