Category: Photography
Out In The Peak District
I am very blessed in living in Sheffield. Although there are other places I would rather live if I were choosing where to live, Sheffield is still a lovely, beautiful place. It is also next to the site of Britain's first national park, the Peak District. It is a wonderful place, stretching most of the way between Sheffield in South Yorkshire and Manchester in Lancashire, taking in parts of Derbyshire and incorporating the Derbyshire Dales too. If you go a little further north, there's the Yorkshire Moors, the Lake District to the west and the North Yorkshire Moors to the east. It is a beautiful place and one that I really should take more time to explore.
Yesterday I went with a few other people from my University for an evening barbeque on the Longshaw Estate, near Grindleford in Derbyshire. It was rather cold when the sun wasn't out, but thankfully the sun was out most of the time we were there. It's wonderful to be able to go out and to just enjoy places without having to worry about writing 20,000 words of research, of the five exams you have to take the next week, or the essay that you understand absolutely nothing about, or the group presentation that your group are showing no interest in. No, I can just relax - for now.
Photography
Since I finished my degree almost a month ago now, I've been trying to find the time to focus upon a few things that I haven't had as much time for as I would like in the past few years. I've had varying success with this, but I think I'm slowly getting there, and feel like I'm finding the time to appreciate the beauty of creation as I try and slow down.
As a result of this, I have been trying to take a little more time for a little photography. I'm no professional photographer - just an amateur who quite likes playing around - but I love capturing scenary and love trying to capture vivid scenes. Here below is one such photograph I took at the weekend:
I have to say, I really love this photograph. It's a stunning capture of dusk. I carried out a quick straw poll and the consensus was that this is a photo that wouldn't be out of place in an African scene. I've never been to Africa myself, but from pictures I have seen of Africa, I couldn't disagree.
But this wasn't taken in Africa. It was taken at Edinburgh Airport on Friday 6th June @ 20:42. f/4.5, 1/100th, ISO-80. It's not been doctored in any way - just cropped for a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Scotland can be as spectacular as any other place on earth, with the right timing and a creative mind.