Yorkshire Dales Three Peaks Walk Photography

Pete Barnes — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:11:56 +0000

We did the three peaks walk in the Yorkshire dales at the weekend, which is a 26 mile all day walking affair over 3 of the peaks in the dales, (Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough) and had some of the best landscapes Yorkshire has to offer. I had seen a similar photography idea that I wanted to try during the walk, it basically involved taking a photo every minute or so for about 12 hours, it got quite tedious after about 15 minutes, especially going up the hills and finding 3 feet of frozen snow on the tops but it was worth it in the end and the weather was pretty stunning too.

I also managed to get a couple of usable landscape photographs at some points that I have used at the start of the video to set the scene, I’ll put these up in a post soon.

There was a bit of a break in the photography during the ascent of the third peak due to it being covered in a frozen snow, a guy we met earlier had been up it with a friend the day before and he had fallen 40 feet, we heard of this guy again as he had been in the pub at the bottom so I don’t think he was too badly injured. A few people had turned back saying you needed ice axes and crampons to get up it so we thought it best to maybe put the cameras away for 10 minutes.

The walk usually takes 10-12 hours but we had to take a little longer due to the photography and the conditions so it became too dark for photos at about 2 miles from the end. Unfortunately we then lost the path (as it was pitch black) and ended up at an abandoned farm which was pretty scary but managed to get back ok. I always feel these are the experiences you remember best on days out like this and all in all we had a great day, bit sore the morning after mind!

The Yorkshire Dales

Pete Barnes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:44:12 +0000

We went up for a drive around the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, had some great weather which was pretty lucky. We got the the Ribblehead viaduct for sunrise, I’ve wanted to do a panoramic of this for sometime but never had any decent light. The were both about 8 shot stiches each at 70mm and joined in PTGui. We then drove to Hawes and down to Kettelwell, taking the tree shot on route. Theres a link to the tree location here.

Ribblehead Viaduct

Tree near a stream in the Yorkshire Dales

I’ve developed a bit of a love hate relationship with my tripod, I have a Manfrotto 190 cxpro3, it’s great being so light but the amount of times I have trapped fingers between the centre column and a closing leg is far more than I’d like to admit, maybe it’s just me. It’s a little annoying I can’t remove the centre column as I like to get quite low, I’ll have to look up some tips on it.

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Yorkshire Dales Three Peaks Walk Photography

The Yorkshire Dales