 | Buxton (262Kb) In the park, looking down towards the town. |
 | Winnats pass, looking up (145Kb) Having just driven down through it, boggling at all the scenery crammed into such a small space. |
 | Winnats pass rock (166Kb) This looks like a castle turret from a distance, but is a natural outcrop. |
 | Winnats pass, looking down (121Kb) It was just a little bit hazy, but you can get the idea. This is an area with a lot of cave systems, and it is likely that Winnats pass is a cave system that has collapsed. |
 | Peveril Castle (188Kb) Just past Winnats pass, overlooking the appropriately named Castleton. Built by William the Conqueror, and subsequently used as a source for building stone by the locals. The bits on the top left still have their facing stones because that bit is over a cliff, and difficult to get to. |
 | View from Peveril Castle (143Kb) Looking across the drop at the back of the castle. |
 | View from Mam Tor to Winnats pass (164Kb) That idea about a collapsed cave system makes more sense from a distance. |
 | View from Mam Tor looking back (109Kb) Nice sun in the haze. |
 | Mam Tor hang-gliders (78Kb) A zoom in of the above shot. There were lots of hang gliders around that day - must have been good conditions for it. |
 | Arbor Low stone circle (224Kb) These are all lying down, and there is a theory that this circle was built that way (the positioning is such that they unlikely to have fallen randomly from an original upright configuration). |
 | Dovedale weir (171Kb) Dovedale is a long river valley, and we only walked a short bit of it. This is near the start. |
 | Dovedale stream (218Kb) This is just past the stepping stones where you swap from one side of the river to the other. I really liked the curved water surface as it flows over the ledge here. |
 | Dovedale hills (126Kb) Sunlight hitting the hillside at an angle. |
 | Dovedale light (71Kb) As you go round the corner, you end up completely in the shadow of the hill. You then get this sunbeam effect over the top of the ridge. |
 | Chatsworth cascade, zoomed in (329Kb) A close up of a grouping of narrow steps. |
 | Chatsworth cascade, from the inside (262Kb) A tricky shot this, from behind one of the taller steps. This was the third attempt at shielding the camera from the running water. I wasn't entirely successful, and the LCD display packed up for the rest of the day. Fortunately it stated working again once things had dried out. |
 | Chatsworth cascade, the fountain at the top (324Kb) Actually one of several, feeding in the water that drives it. |
 | Chatsworth, curving hedges (238Kb) Elsewhere in the gardens are these wonderful curving hedges. This probably looks better when they're green, but we weren't complaining. |
 | Chatsworth, the emperor fountain (111Kb) This is in the middle of the artificial lake in front of the house. It's seriously tall. |
 | Chatsworth, fountain and house seen from the end of the lake (101Kb) Biggish, innit? |
 | Chatsworth, the hedge maze (191Kb) Difficult to get a good overview of this without trees in the way, but you get the idea. From inside the hedges are way above even my head height, so you're fairly doomed. Luckily it is small enough to analyse fairly quickly from the inside. |
 | Chatsworth, the foot (142Kb) A statue fragment, of something large I'm guessing. Or possibly just a fake foot. Genuine human foot to the right, for scale. |
 | Chatsworth interior, the library (231Kb) In the dark, without flash, taken freehand. We actually could do with this sort of thing for book storage. |
 | Chatsworth, the awake lion (199Kb) One of two. |
 | Chatsworth, the asleep lion (209Kb) The other one of the pair, this one sleeping on guard duty. |
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