The Peak District, climbing in the Roaches
This is a more family orientated blog than the ones I normally present. The Sunday of the weekend we spent in the Peak District was dry and sunny and we were able to go to the Roaches so that the younger of the party could spend half a day climbing. I took a chair so that I could sit and watch! It was busy, the Saturday had been wet and consequentially everyone had come on Sunday instead. I love the Roaches, the rocks are very interesting to photograph. However today they were teeming with people so I concentrated on snapping Hugh, Mairi and Lizzy climbing instead. I was using a slightly different combo of my Fuji XE-1 camera with an adaptor and an old (1976) Nikkor F 135mm f/2.8 lens. It is a tiny lens only weighing 430g and sits very nicely on the Fuji. It can be pretty sharp although the contrast could be better. It is nice to be able to travel with just a small over the shoulder camera bag. Here are the pictures. The first 3 were taken using the Fuji 35mm prime lens and the ...