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A landscape photography blog by Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire based landscape photographer Rob Thorley Photography.
You wait weeks for a sunset then two come along at once. Well not at once, but consecutive evenings.
Tonight there was another half chance of a sunset, so I headed up to the back of The Roaches in the Staffordshire Peak District thinking I may get some nice light on the Baldstone ridgeline. I don’t even know why I have to mention it but I will . . . The wind was . . . but you know that.
Pretty much like the previous night up at the trig point I was forced to tuck in behind the rocks, and shoot low, and pretty much like the previous night the best of the light was well before sunset.
I spent the time wisely, and had a play with a time lapse as there was plenty of movement in the clouds, but other than that a nice bit of golden hour side light was the best of the evening.
Seeing that there was a bank of cloud in place to snuff out the sunset I headed back to the car, but I didn’t shoot off immediately. Trading my camera for a pair of binoculars I had a look to see if there was any signs of the badgers around the setts that I’d discovered recently.
Knowing that badgers show around dusk I thought it was worth the wait, but sadly I didn’t get to see any of them. I’m pretty sure the setts are active as there was fresh rubble scraped out of the holes, and plenty of dried grass strewn around. I also noticed areas of grass that had recently scraped as though something was digging for worms.
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