Stanage Edge Morning
10th December 2020
Anyone remember snow? White and wet, like a fluffy duvet in the bath. Then brown and wet, like an unwashed duvet in a students room.
Remember the joys of snow - like taking three hours to do a 15 minute drive home assuming you don't have to abandon the car two miles from your house? In Sheffield, the very first flake of snow causes mass hysteria and blind panic to set in as everyone cleverly leaves work at exactly the same time to avoid the traffic (remember having an office to leave?). Everyone that is except council gritting crews. Its official that 1.3mm of snow will cause approximately 5.25 miles of traffic queues within the Sheffield boundary.
I do like snow - it makes for very picturesque landscape scenes - I just hate driving in it. For some reason all the 1970s sci-fi programmes have got it wrong and we still don't have even the most simple basic tech like hover boards or teleporters which would make travelling to take nice wintry scenes so much easier. How on earth do they manage in cold places like Canada or Iceland. Maybe its that they don't have UK Gritting Operations.
So we haven't had snow for a while really so I thought I'd share what passes for winter over the past few years. A bit of frost is what we get if we're lucky, I guess.
This is up on Stanage Edge taking the well known millstones as the subject. I like to arrive well before sunrise when I think the best chance for beautiful colours occurs and here I thought I stay around to see the light appearing as the sun rose higher. The tone and the feel of each shot tells the tale of how nature can provide us with ever changing dynamics where no two days are the same or indeed no two minutes are the same.
About 20 minutes before sunrise taken low down with my wide angle 14mm lens
Sunrise and a change to my 16mm lens which gives better defined starburts
About 20 minutes after sunrise and a step back or two to take in more the the landscape sround the millstones
Remember the joys of snow - like taking three hours to do a 15 minute drive home assuming you don't have to abandon the car two miles from your house? In Sheffield, the very first flake of snow causes mass hysteria and blind panic to set in as everyone cleverly leaves work at exactly the same time to avoid the traffic (remember having an office to leave?). Everyone that is except council gritting crews. Its official that 1.3mm of snow will cause approximately 5.25 miles of traffic queues within the Sheffield boundary.
I do like snow - it makes for very picturesque landscape scenes - I just hate driving in it. For some reason all the 1970s sci-fi programmes have got it wrong and we still don't have even the most simple basic tech like hover boards or teleporters which would make travelling to take nice wintry scenes so much easier. How on earth do they manage in cold places like Canada or Iceland. Maybe its that they don't have UK Gritting Operations.
So we haven't had snow for a while really so I thought I'd share what passes for winter over the past few years. A bit of frost is what we get if we're lucky, I guess.
This is up on Stanage Edge taking the well known millstones as the subject. I like to arrive well before sunrise when I think the best chance for beautiful colours occurs and here I thought I stay around to see the light appearing as the sun rose higher. The tone and the feel of each shot tells the tale of how nature can provide us with ever changing dynamics where no two days are the same or indeed no two minutes are the same.
About 20 minutes before sunrise taken low down with my wide angle 14mm lens
Sunrise and a change to my 16mm lens which gives better defined starburts
About 20 minutes after sunrise and a step back or two to take in more the the landscape sround the millstones