Bite-Size Blog Post #88 - Haresceugh Fell

9 Sept

On My Way to Something Exciting

My friend and long time photography collaborator, Chris Sale, has been photographing the Pennines ever since he moved there a few years ago. I try to pop in and see him and his lovely wife whenever I’m passing by on the M6. It’s always good to catch up, especially when it involves an overnight stay, as that gives us the opportunity to head out with the cameras.

Earlier this week, Chris kindly invited me to stay on my way up to Scotland. I’m visiting Scotland to catch a flight to a very special location, but more of that in a future blog post.

I arrived at his house after dark, so there wasn’t much time to do anything other than enjoy a glass of wine and have a chat. We did, however, promise ourselves that we’d get up early the following morning for some photography.

It turned out to be a challenging hour or so. The morning had brought heavy cloud, and Chris’s home territory in the Pennines is far from the easiest place to photograph. As Chris describes it, it’s like Dartmoor, but without any of the interesting stuff!

The image you see below was actually taken on the walk back to the car. I had found the morning very challenging and I don’t think I took more than five frames in total. Yet, somehow, this photograph caught my attention.

Perhaps it was the long path stretching into the distance. Maybe, subconsciously, it represented the long journey I had ahead of me. Or perhaps it’s just a picture of a path!

Either way, spending an hour with a friend doing the thing we both love is never a waste of time. In fact, I’ll be stopping off on my way back from this trip, so we’ll get the cameras out and do it all again.

Hopefully, with better weather this time.