So yesterday (Tuesday) was my day off and with the parents still having their second week of the holiday I really wanted to go up onto the Yorkshire Moors. I'm not really sure why, maybe it's because of its remoteness, the chances of playing with my camera and catching some wildlife. The English summer weather had other ideas of allowing it however.
We decided to go up by Levisham railway - a stop along the North Yorkshire Moors Railway just north up the road from Pickering. We arrived just after a shower - long enough for me to grab the above pictures (the only pictures) and have lunch. I'm trying to get better at my landscape shots. As you can all probably tell I love my macro flowery pictures yet I never seem to manage artsy or interesting landscape photographs - it's something I need to work out.
But then the skies greyed over and the heavens well and truly opened. The next hour was spent watching the rain running down the car windows and the Moorland sheep getting wet and hiding by the stonewalls. At that point we gave up and went to Dalby Forest but that's a post for another day!
Isn't everyone else totally fed up with this "summer" weather?!
But then the skies greyed over and the heavens well and truly opened. The next hour was spent watching the rain running down the car windows and the Moorland sheep getting wet and hiding by the stonewalls. At that point we gave up and went to Dalby Forest but that's a post for another day!
Isn't everyone else totally fed up with this "summer" weather?!
Love that first picture. What kind of camera are you using? Your shots are good.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little fed up.. here in KS it's 100 degrees every day and super humid... I don't want to say it though because before I know it I'll be cooped up in my apartment and it will be miserably cold. Oh well.
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I have a very basic fuji digital camera. Sadly no SLR (yet) for me. Luckily it came with semi decent settings and the rest is up to the editing on picasa (I use the cross processing option a lot).
ReplyDeleteI know about the weather, I remember moaning a couple of weeks ago that it was too hot! Oh how it all comes around in circles x
Are these pictures over in the UK or in the US?
ReplyDeleteAlyssa - they are taken in the UK, on the North Yorkshire Moors x
ReplyDeletewow what stunning pictures! im totally fed up of the weather too xx
ReplyDeleteElla @ Belle Vintage
Hello, I discovered your blog a couple of weeks ago and so thought maybe it was time to say 'hello'! I love these images, so moody and so truly representative of the North York Moors, I spent much of childhood up that way, so many happy memories... glad you enjoyed
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I think your landscape pictures are lovely!
ReplyDeletephotos are lovely! I am also sick of this weather! a little sunshine would be nice!!! x
ReplyDeleteLove the photographs!
ReplyDeleteLiz @ Shortbread & Ginger
why is the uk so beautiful, why? i miss visiting places like this! you took such beautiful pics:)
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Utterly fabulous, you'd never guess how Autumnal the weather was by looking at those wonderful photos. x
ReplyDeletePS Love the new profile pic, you foxy chick!
Your photos are so gorgeous! I enjoy watching the rain splash against windows every now and then too. There's just something so majestic and peaceful about it.
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Sabrina
Oh goodness these are incredible photos, so beautiful x
ReplyDeleteThese photographs are stunning! I love snapping pictures of trips and pretty things along the way. And it was raining here in Michigan for quite awhile but now it is 100 degrees. Dare I say I miss the rain!?
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone! I hope to get back onto the moors over the next couple of weekends. Hopefully when the weather will try and make itself more summer like!
ReplyDelete@ Jennyboo- my boy is in Michigan and I think he'd love some of the rain too!
So glad you left a comment on my blog, just checked out your blog and all the photos are beautiful! I'm listening to Wind in the Wires right now :) x
ReplyDelete@ Gem - your welcome and thank you. I never tire of the Wind in the Wires album, its so moving.
ReplyDeleteI love this post! When I think of the Yorkshire moors, Healthcliff and Cathy always spring to mind and these pictures just add to the romance!! I have family in yorkshire, wish I could visit them more! xx
ReplyDeleteThese photos are lovely! I like the 3rd best of all.
ReplyDeleteThe moors are very atmospheric aren't they Rachel?! You could totally see Healthcliffe and Cathy up on a windy cold, rainy day - their characters echo the moors characteristics!
ReplyDeleteI love the butterfly too binia, i'd love to take more like that - those kind of photos really got me into photography but there seems to be a lack of butterflies around home sadly!
Love the pictures <3.
ReplyDeleteSadie x
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