#angerholme pots

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Clints & Grikes Under The Nab

Increasingly, as a landscape photographer, I find myself fascinated with the geology of this country, and how it has been shaped by the passing of time. Equally fascinating, to me, is the immense variety of dialect found in the British Isles … and how that is reflected in the landscape.

The photo here is an example. This is a limestone pavement, fairly common in the Yorkshire Dales, which is formed by a retreating glacier exposing the limestone to the elements and then acidic rain eats away at weak joints in the rock, resulting in clints (the slabs) and grikes (the deep grooves), both Northern English dialect words. Isn’t Britain fascinating?

Angerholme Pots, Mallerstang, Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, England.

ISO100, ƒ/16, 1⁄15sec at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a blend of three exposures, manually blended together. Processed in Lightroom, blended in Photoshop, edited with Color Efex Pro and Macphun’s Luminar.

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Not Another Soul

I’ve commented before on the lack of traffic and people around the Mallerstang valley. To me, it’s one of the main attractions of this place. It’s not even like Mallerstang is particularly taxing to get to, but it is sort of out of the way. To get to Mallerstang you either have to first navigate towards the centre of the Yorkshire Dales then head north … or drive round to the top of the Dales and go south. Both routes involve coming off motorways and onto bendy, twisty, hilly roads. Fun, though.

Angerholme Pots, Wild Boar Fell, Mallerstang, Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, England.

ISO100, ƒ/13, 1/80sec at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.), shot with my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is largely a single exposure with some help from an underexposed frame for highlight detail, as the sun was starting to come through. Processed in Lightroom, edited in Photoshop, Color Efex Pro, and Macphun Luminar.

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The Nab Unveiled

Saturday, yesterday, was not exactly conducive to hiking and photography as the humidity and heat of the week resulting in a torrential downpour all day. Today, Sunday, was thankfully much better. I made my way east to the wonderfully quiet Mallerstang valley, in search of a composition from underneath the centrepiece of the valley: Wild Boar Fell.

Once you get over the first “lip” of the valley, the land flattens out and The Nab of Wild Boar Fell pins your eyes open in amazement. Underneath The Nab, you can find a little area of limestone pavement known as Angerholme Pots, so I took my time with compositions, watching the cloud cover lifting from The Nab, and enjoying the otherworldly shapes of the limestone.

Angerholme Pots, Mallerstang, Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, England.

ISO100, ƒ/16 at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a HDR image made from three bracketed exposures. Processed in Lightroom, blended in Photomatix, edited in Macphun Luminar, Color Efex Pro, and Photoshop.