Category: Durham

I find it extremely useful to research areas online before I visit and photograph them. Some of the best websites to do this are Wikipedia and Flickr. Flickr is great because of the vast numbers of people who upload pictures; this means you are bound to find photos of where you are going. Also, searching by “most interesting” often gives the best images in the search. When I researched for my trip up to County Durham and the Yorkshire Dales I didn’t come across Egglestone Abbey at all. But one of the photographers I was staying with showed me a few of his pictures of the abbey and I decided to go. Luckily I went on the right day’ because the weather was perfect with a great blue sky behind the abbey. I hope you enjoy this and next time you’re planning a trip or going travelling with your cameras, take half an hour to browse through Flickr and Wikipedia, I promise you will find interesting places to visit and photograph.

I think it is time I start blogging about somewhere other than the Yorkshire Dales and County Durham but I couldn’t finish talking about last weekends trip up north without showing you this photograph above. The village of Romaldkirk is where we were all staying. This picture was taken on the Sunday morning, in fact thinking about it there was probably a mass going on at the time. I feel disappointed that I didn’t go in and explore the interior when I had the chance because I do wish to try and take some stained glass photographs but I can’t do everything. The low viewpoint makes this photograph different in my opinion, it looks as if the camera was very close to the ground, but it was actually on a wall at my shoulder height. The graveyard and church are a lot higher than the road which goes around the church. The original photograph had made converging verticals which I corrected in Photoshop, but apart from this, the photograph is just how I saw it.