![Portrait with a Clumber horse [10/52]
I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...](http://publicenergy.co.uk/Projects/52-Weeks/20100306-1145-0017-Edit/803460292_nQg6M-Th.jpg "Portrait with a Clumber horse [10/52]
I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...")
Kinder Scout
![So near and yet so far [85/365]](http://static.flickr.com/2275/2187466373_c7c1454f27.jpg)
I’ve not really seen any decent quantities of snow for some time. Yesterday when entering the Peak District, I could see white in some of the hill tops so I thought there might be a bit left here and there. I was pleasantly surprised to find almost all of the route having some snow on it, and some of the route had lots of snow – that last photo above has a foot-deep footprint, but a few times I was up to me knee, especially near the top of Fairbrook Naze.
Anything that wasn’t covered with snow was covered in mud or ice. Some some of the going was slow and careful.
It was lovely to get on to the edge of Kinder, in the low clouds. One of the things that surprised me was just how dark it was under the clouds. Your eyes adjust to it very easily and you think it’s normal until you see what your camera is trying to do with the exposure when taking a shot.
For a lot of the day, we were under the dark clouds, or in them, but quite often we could see sunlight somewhere else as shown in a few of the photos above.
My mate made a small snowman at one stage, so far I’ve not seen this make an appearance of Flickr, but if it does, I’ll update this post!
Finally, the Gisteq PhotoTrackr continues to work very well, meaning that all of my photos get geotagged when I’m out walking these days.
If you want to have a look at the route that the device recorder, you can use this Google Earth file to see it. I’ve included a GPX file in case you want to use some other mapping software.
Roger B. 4:35 pm on January 13, 2008 Permalink |
Great photos.
Snow? In the Peak District? In January?
The climate’s gone mad!!!
brendadada 5:46 pm on January 13, 2008 Permalink |
Ooooh, these are stunning! Third one down is my favourite. Marvelous.
Diana 10:27 pm on January 14, 2008 Permalink |
Awesome photos! Looks like some incredible weather you got to enjoy.
I really like the top photo and the second one from the bottom!
Kinder Scout in February feels 7:11 pm on February 10, 2008 Permalink |
[...] but sunny yesterday. Instead it was very warm and it could easily have been a summer day. It was only a month ago when I was on the other side of Kinder Scout walking through snow that came up to my knees in [...]
publicenergy / Geotag Icon 1:11 pm on March 1, 2008 Permalink |
[...] You might recognise the photo used on the example page – it’s one of the snowy ones from my Kinder Scout walk in January. It was picked because it has co-ordinates embedded in it’s EXIF data, thanks to using the [...]