Framedlight

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 ...

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 t...

I made some monochrome conversions of a few of the South Peak pictures.