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The following page will contain images taken in the current month, new images will uploaded as the year progresses.
January
 Bubbles frozen in time, amazing what the natural world as hidden away, just waiting to be discovered.
Brief burst of sunlight at dawn, Higger Tor, Hathersage, Peak District National Park.
February
Stanage Edge, Peak District National Park, taken mid afternoon, sunlight rakes over the escarpment before being battered by a hail storm.
Stanage Edge, Peak District National Park, basking in late afternoon sunlight.
Curbar Edge with Bamford Edge and Win Hill visible in the distant haze as seen from Baslow Edge.
Stanage millstones, with the dawn sunlight just glancing the stones. A ready made composition and at this time of year great both at dawn and dusk.
March
 A millstone theme seems to have taken over at the moment!! The Peak District is littered with literally thousands of unfinished and unwanted millstones, as technology improved the bottom fell out of the market and despite the hard physical work taken to hew them by hand, they were left in-situ. So iconic are the stones in the area the Peak District National Park uses the millstone as it's corporate emblem.
I know, I know!!!! Millstones again but with a twist... Taken in complete darkness, Orion, Betelgeuse and Taurus are visible as light pollution from Sheffield and it's environs add an eerie glow to the horizon.
I promise no more.....I never could keep a promise though!!
Curbar Edge on a unexpected frosty and misty morning
April
 Stanage Edge, High Neb prior to sunset
Stanage Edge, High Neb "Trig point" basking in sunset's afterglow
Over Owler Tor, PDNP on a very blustery and cold evening
May
 Crescent Moonrise pre dawn over the NW Highlands, Scotland
High level clouds aglow with post sunset colour. Elgol, Isle of Skye.
The strong side pre sunset lighting and vivid green of the Gut Weed (Enteromorpha intestinalis) caught my eye before making this image, Elgol, Isle of Skye.
June
 Back to more local scene's, Sunburst over the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire.
Curbar Edge, PDNP. With sunshine and showers, the skies are at their most interesting especially close to or at sunset.
Dennis Knoll, North Lees Estate, PDNP, What looked like being yet another uneventful trip out , we were blessed with a spectacular light show at sunset.
July
Back to the millstones again!!
Mist and Cloud inversion at dawn, Stanage Edge, PDNP.
August
In the Peak the heather is in bloom but despite the so called summer, showers are still an ever present threat
Millstone Edge, Sunburst over the Hope valley, PDNP
Mist wreathes on the Derwent valley floor, as seen from Over Owler Tor at dawn, PDNP
Higger Tor and Carl Wark sidelit viewed from Over Owler Tor, PDNP
Crepuscular rays light the Great Ridge, Hope Valley, PDNP
The promised sunset never happened but time spent out and about is never wasted. Carrhead Rocks, Hathersage PDNP
September
This place has it all, great views all around, an abundance of compositions and best of all.. it's close to the car!!!. Carrhead Rocks, Hathersage PDNP
Stone troughs carved into the gritstone are commonplace in the area, they were carved to collect rainwater for the Red Grouse... This one may just be naturally occurring though. Carrhead Rocks, Hathersage PDNP
What looked like being another wasted dawn patrol the "Light Gods" finally showed some mercy.... Higger Tor, Hathersage, PDNP
Sundown on gritstone, Higger Tor, Hathersage PDNP
October
Geoff Simpson produced, on film in 1995, an image from Mam Tor, so good was that image, even to this day people are still striving to reproduce....There were 12 other people on location for dawn!!!, The National Trust's, Mam Tor, Castleton, PDNP
Stanage Edge snaking into the distance, leading to the best of the "Dark Peak".
The epitome of the Peak District for myself, taken Nr. Hathersage, PDNP
Another day and an even better misty morning Mam Tor, Castleton, PDNP
Yet another dawn patrol, Curbar Edge, PDNP
After a failed dawn shoot a trip back out to Carrhead rocks for sunset produced some nice, warm sidelighting, Hathersage, PDNP
November
The tree's unfortunately are past their best, although those still in leaf are very colourful, NT Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire.
We have been blessed this year with a greater than average amount of temperature aversions , this one settling in the Derwent Valley as seen from Curbar Edge, PDNP
Those millstones again and another view taking in a carved stone trough seen from Stanage Edge, PDNP
And yet again.... Millstones, Stanage Edge, PDNP
December
With the recent snowfall in Scotland, I managed to drop lucky, light wise and pulled a few images out of the bag. Glencoe area, NW Scotland
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