I didn’t have enough local knowledge, or at least, preferences, so I asked Martin & Peter to select a good place to hike near to York, and they chose Sutton Bank. We discovered the trail from the visitor centre led to what a few years back was voted by »
After my original hopes to sweep through the North York Moors and Yorkshire Wolds, not necessarily in that order, and not forgetting the coast, after these hopes came to nothing, that just left the Yorkshire Dales. Alan was a hero, and did all the driving for two days, as »
When I arrived at Moffat the night before, I had a vague idea I’d been here before, but I didn’t recognize anything. In the early morning of a new day, I realized I had, but last time I had approached from the south, not the north, as it was »
The first batch of calendars are back from the printer and look great, »
I’ve done all the editing I can do on the photograph files, redone the InDesign files (multiple times, there were debates about text size as well as positioning and type face) and imported all image files and produced the PDFs. Phew. »
We did make an attempt to get the calendar ready even earlier this year and started work back in August. Back then, there was still a question as to whether to do another calendar using photographs of flowers, or to make use of the extra photographs of Yorkshire from our trip there in May. »
More accurately, my saviors are in Threshfield. Alan had to go to work, and I wanted to keep photographing in Yorkshire, so I looked for somewhere not too far beyond Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, stuck a pin in the (Google) map and decided on Grassington.
So good, we went there twice!
Saltaire is a model village (and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) built by Sir Titus Salt on the River Aire to house his workers at his woolen textile mill, Salts Mill. When it was built in 1853 the mill »
