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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…
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Hartshead Pike
Standing 267 metres above sea level, Hartshead Pike is thought to have been a beacon hill since before the Romans came to Britain and legends exist about Druid worship at the site. The hill has an unbroken 360 degree view across the borders of four counties, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire. A beacon would surely have been lit there to warn of the Spanish Armada and later of its defeat. In WW2 it was occupied as a look-out post. There are many ancient sites in the area, including the remains of a Roman fort at Castleshaw and a stone circle at Buckton Castle and the Romans maintained Hartshead Pike as a beacon site.…
