> On 22 October 2017 at 02:46 ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Liked the travelogue - even the drone shots :-) a particular fave is > Bob's bike. What's the story behind it?
A couple of years a go, the Tour de France started in Yorkshire. Yellow bicycles sprang up everywhere in the county, particularly en route. This artefact will be one of them. It's the most enthusiasm Yorkshire has shown for anything since the dissolution and looting of the monastries. > Also, is the shape the ruins of the abbey are in due to centuries of > weather abuse or did WWII bombings > play into it? Also, the canal photo was very interesting. > > I didn't know the cranberries in Wensleydale were from North America - > yummy stuff . > > ann > > > > On 10/21/2017 1:11 PM, Alan C wrote: > > Thanks, Bob. I couldn't remember the name Hackfall. We went on a 12km > > trail past that hikers lodge at the top of the hill before descending > > into the Ure valley. Fortunately not too wet/muddy. Saw no deer > > either. Druid's Temple is only about 1km across the lea from Healey. > > > > Alan C > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Bob W-PDML > > Sent: 21 October, 2017 6:54 PM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: GESO: Yorkshire Dales > > > > A very nice set of some very familiar places. I like the Turner view > > from Hackfall. I've shot that, but not as nicely. Glad to see you > > found not-Stonehenge too. > > > > B > > > >> On 21 Oct 2017, at 09:50, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> As promised, my travelogue of the Yorkshire Dales (62 deep, sorry > >> Cotty). The weather & lighting was very changeable but the K5 did > >> well. The interiors were all shot at high ISO, a big step up from the > >> K7. William Turner, the English Artist, painted a scene looking down > >> the River Ure towards Marsham. The image is from that location > >> although it is much more overgrown today. A recent petition prevented > >> the building of new houses in this field of view. A Wallace & Gromit > >> cartoon in which Wallace touted Wenseydale cheese had a profound > >> effect on the business. The American connection is the imported > >> cranberries. Some of the shots are not so great but I'll never get > >> another opportunity. > >> > >> Most of all, this trip gave me a chance to focus on other things > >> besides animals! > >> > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/albums/72157687581274920 > >> > >> Mostly with the K5 & DA 18-55 with a few Drone images thrown in. > >> > >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
