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I’m exporing Holme Moss to find some waterfalls to photograph. This one is in Ramsden Clough and is easily accessible. While exploring I met a Polish girl and her boyfriend on Black Hills who were walking the Pennine Way and we got chatting about concentration camps, as you do. She, I didn’t know her name, had visited some and thought that they are a good memorial to those that died. My mother, who live in Austria during the war, which was first invaded by the Nazis and then the Russians, is of a different opinion. She is in favour of memorials but thinks that the camps themselves should be destroyed and not be left as tourist attractions. She told me about helping the people in the camps by passing food and clothes to them through the fence.
As I was making my way down to Folly Dolly Falls, I passed a man who was just leaving. He spotted my Muck Boots and asked if I was planning to go into the water. I replied, “Not intentionally”. He said, “If tha does it’s a free ride ta ‘uddersfield.” Meltham, round the back of Morrisons, a long way from Huddersfield.
The Waterfalls of Ramsden Clough. After a week of rain and inspired by Adam Gibbs (#adamgibbsphoto), I decided to walk down Ramsden Clough, aka Monkey Nick, from Holme Moss to Riding Wood Reservoir and on the way get some images of the waterfalls. Well, there’s no path and at times it was difficult going, the 6-year-old me would have loved it, the 60-year-old me was a little more circumspect: broken bones don’t heal so quickly at my age as I found out last year. I used my 10 stopper to calm the water and blended the images in PS to get a water effect that I liked, I do feel that the 10 stoppers are a tad over used. Although I named the images #2 and #3 there is no #1 because it didn’t come out well.
As a landscape photographer I try and capture beautiful images but this one is perhaps a step too far, taken at the Falls of Feugh near Banchory, I can see this type of image on a tin of Scottish shortbread aimed at tourists. So, if any shortbread manufacturer wants to buy this image, get in touch.
This is the second image from my walk down Ramsden Clough that I’d like to share. I’ll definitely do the walk again, perhaps in the winter when there is some snow?
I Bless the Rain down in Yorkshire. At last after a long, hot, dry summer the rain has come so the streams are getting back to normal and the reservoirs are filling up again. Dean Clough near Blackpool Bridge.