Road to the isles, a pause by the Roaches for a little infrared

On our journey north to pick up Alan's mum we stopped off at the Roaches in the Peak District for a walk, some lunch and to see the peregrine falcons nesting on Hen Cloud, the hill next to the Roaches. The crags where they were perching were cordoned off but we could still walk up the back of the hill to try to catch a sight of them. Needless to say there was not a peregrine in sight until we had got back down to the car when we spotted a couple soaring next to the distant cliff face.

This area is one we have known for a long time as Alan and I would bring the children and their friends here to rock climb and boulder when they were younger. Alan also came here with his mates when at school and there is a story of how he and several others went up onto the rocks for a morning, leaving John who is more of a sitter than a climber down below to observe the scene. John got bored and worked his way through all the sandwiches wiping the last crumb away as the hungry climbers came down to a guilty John and disappointment.

This morning the weather was dull, but I thought the rocks would look good if I used my infrared converted camera to picture them. I have found that if the sky is too 'interesting' it can look very 'busy' in infrared so something a little calmer is not such a distraction. Anyway, as promised in my previous blog, here are the results. I have converted a couple to black and white and they are at the end. The rest are in their native infrared colours which I rather like. I also like the way you can still get texture in the white grasses using infrared capture.