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13 September 200827 May 2017

View over Holyrood Park

Looking for interesting landscapes and viewpoints over cities is something that greatly interests me and on my recent tour of Scotland I found myself sat half way up Arthur’s Seat, the main peak in Holyrood Park. I was sitting just off the main path enjoying the view and watching dozens of people walk past, going up and down. Obviously the above landscape of Holyrood Park looking toward Edinburgh was taken without the person, but I felt that the picture was empty without someone stood looking into the vista.

2 March 200828 May 2017

Hill Walker near Goyt Valley

One of the most difficult to place photographs I have taken in the last twelve months, not only is this area on the boundaries of Cheshire and Derbyshire, it has about six different names of exactly where it could be. It was taken this morning on an 8 mile hike around the Disley area of the Goyt Valley. We parked the car at the Rams Head pub and walked up to Disley Golf Club and on to the Mellor and Townscliffe Golf Club via the Peak Forest Canal and River Goyt. Then over the hills and back into the village of Disley. Here we see one of the group heading back down into the village.

As it was mother’s day I wanted to spend the day with my parents. As they had planned to go for a walk with their local ramblers club I came along for the ride. The walk wasn’t very tough and I have now scouted a couple more great mountain biking locations for the near future. The tower you can see in the far distance on the hill is “The Cage” at Lyme Park; it’s a 18th century hunting lodge.

22 January 200828 May 2017

Couple Punting on River Cam, Cambridge

The couple in the above photography have just come through Clare Bridge and are about to get a fantastic view of the west end of King’s College Chapel. I was stood on the bank of the river which at this point I believe are called “The Backs”. I have at least two or three more photos of Cambridge that I would like to share with you, but as you probably gather sharing photos without knowing what they show is something that doesn’t happen on this blog. I am not happy with just putting a photo and a title like many photo blogs. Giving you as much detail as I can is something I enjoy but does require a lot of time and research.

23 December 200728 May 2017

Arndale Shopping Centre, Manchester

The Arndale Shopping Centre is now the UK’s largest inner city shopping centre since the opening of its new area pictured in the photograph above. I was stood on the carpark level 5 looking down towards Next and River Island. This was taken about two weeks ago now and it was the busiest I had seen it until yesterday, when I walked through to shelter from heavy rain, when there was at least twice the volume of people traffic.

Ideally this picture should have been captured using a tripod rather than hand-held, but I was in a rush to take a few images before the inevitable happened – as always. Two minutes later I was tapped on the shoulder by a huge security guard and asked to leave. Luckily I wasn’t told to hand over my memory card, delete photos and wasn’t escorted off the site, so I guess I got off lightly this time!