Posted by admin | Posted in Nature, Photography, Rail | Posted on 12-08-2010
Last weekend I celebrated my 30th Birthday with my closest friends in a barn in Swale Dale, in the Yorkshire Dales (North Yorks).
Here are a couple of snaps taken during the walk into the hills of Upper Swaledale on the Saturday: Rain Storm - Swaledale
Walkers take a break
There is a small Lead Smelting ruin above Healaugh by a brook (according to the sign the hills contain rich veins of lead ore):
I’ll add the storm and this last one to the weather and landscape galleries.
The barn was Low Row bunkhouse (camping barn) partly run by YHA – a great option for a heavy session over 2 nights.
On the way there we passed through a beautiful plateau with a fantastic viaduct – I think it’s called Ribbleshead Viaduct – with low cloud all over the hills the scene looked great:
Note for tecchies: the post processing on the 2nd photo was simple using Lightroom 3: used ND grad tool and desaturated lower section, desaturate rest of picture slightly then up individual colour channels for red, magenta etc to bring out the heather colours…geeky yet simple.