Magpie Mine – Bateson's Travel log

Friday 9th May

Up at 6am to crystal clear skies, so we had a cuppa and headed off to a new location. We had a walk planned from Toads Mouth on the A6187 to Carl Wark to take a photo of Higger Tor. But with nowhere close to park we changed the walk from a car park further west and walked past Mother Cap to get a more distant view of Higger Tor.

The temperature when we started was 5C, so Holly had her winter coat on.

This was quite an interesting plateau to settle for a few images. Higger Tor is the flat mound in the distance in the following image.

I then decided to try a few Infrared shots, especially as the sun was so bright.

We then returned to the car as our stomachs were craving a bacon butty, so we headed off towards Bakewell but stopped at Café 19 in the Hope Valley as we knew they were dog friendly. After a quick stop-off in Bakewell for Vanessa to change a T-Shirt, we returned to the Magpie Mine as the sunlight would hopefully improve our previous photos. But with the strong sunlight I thought I’d try Infrared again, quite liking the effect it produced.

With the sun at 12 O’Clock we gave Winatts Pass another try as the photos needed the contrasting shadows to make them interesting.

Infrared wasn’t as successful here, so clearly I’ll have learn more as to when I get a good effect or not. These shots were closely followed by an ice cream as we were hot, especially when carrying the camera bag up the slopes. I wanted one last shot of Hathersage before returning to the motorhome. But before that I had to have a pint.

You can just see the church in the trees, with Hathersage out of shot to the right.

After our evening meal, with the sun still shining we headed back out to the Roaches again, but this time a higher climb to get a sunset on the rocks from above. I also tried out the drone to take pictures in front of the rock face.