photos from the past 40 years
Throwback Thursday travels back to Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the mid 1990s.
An early start to the day meant that I was on top of a section of the Hill when the autumn mist was being illuminated by the rising sun. I had a long telephoto mounted on the tripod and was isolating interesting area’s across the valley.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Steep.
One of the hillsides at Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the autumn. Bickerton Hill is part of a sandstone ridge sticking out of the Cheshire plain.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the 1990s.
I was looking down from the top of the hill, isolating interesting patches of colour with a telephoto lens.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the 1990s.
I had gone to Bickerton Hill, Cheshire looking for wildlife and any early autumn colour. I noticed the blue green of a solitary conifer amongst a sea of green Silver Birch trees and used a telephoto lens to pick the conifer out.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fall.
I had a few ideas for the challenge after photographing some early fall colour at the weekend. In the end I decided to go with a selection of photos of fall colour covering several decades and various locations.
Fall colour on Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the early 1990s.
Fall colour in early snow, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
Fall colour behind a slough, Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1990s.
Fall colour on the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada a few years ago.
Fall colour in the mist, Hatherton, Cheshire, England in the late 1970s.
A section of fallen tree trunk surrounded by fall colour on the South Bruce Peninsula last year.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Hill.
There was an obvious choice for me, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England.
Bickerton Hill is a sandstone escarpment forming part of the Sandstone Trail and the southern end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge.
The hill has a long history with an Iron Age hill fort on top of part of it and other evidence of settlement in the Neolithic or Bronze Age periods.
Autumn colour on part of the hillside.
Snow on the Cheshire plain looking north west from the top of part of the hill.
Some autumn colour isolated with a telephoto lens from the top of the escarpment.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Shadows.
I decided to go with two images of shadows being cast by trees that are also very different.
Trees and their shadows, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England. A film shot from about 25 years ago. Taken with a long telephoto to isolate the trees and shadows as much as possible.
A barcode on the snow. A low winter sun casting long shadows of tree trunks onto snow on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada taken about 18 months ago. This was almost a monochrome image and hardly changed when doing the monochrome conversion.
