Springtime Cloud Inversion
A landscape photography blog by Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire based landscape photographer Rob Thorley Photography.
Just think . . . I almost missed this one due to a bacon, and cheese sandwich. Now that would have been a travesty!
It’s the Easter bank holiday weekend, and for once the weathers great. So great that I’ve been having to take the opportunity and get some jobs done at home. I’m pleased to say they’re now pretty much done, and dusted, so shouldn’t impinge on my photography as we come out of lockdown.
With a few hours of mist, and fog forecast for Upper Hulme on Easter Sunday in the Staffordshire Peak District it was going to start with a 04:30 alarm call.
I was up, and at them nice and early, and whilst making my flask I decided I had time to make some bacon, and cheese sandwiches. I tin foiled a couple of rounds up to eat up top, and put three rounds inside me as I’m a growing lad. Finally ready I went outside to find that I’d forgotten to swap the cars around the previous night, and to compound matters we’d had a freeze overnight and both cars were covered in ice <sigh>.
Having negotiated the breakfast, and car trauma I set off “briskly” for The Roaches. On arrival I was out of the car, and on my way up the path within 30 seconds of switching off the engine. For once the forecast looked spot on, and I could see the mist, and fog forming as I was (honestly) almost running up the path.
I hadn’t decided whether to stay on the first tier, or whether to go up top at this point, but as I got higher I was glancing over my shoulder, and I was pretty certain the first tier would be in the clag, not above it. Just what my knees needed!
I guess this is one of those all’s well that ends well stories. After my sprint (honest) up to the top I was treated to some fantastic conditions as you’ll see from the slideshow above. The one “downer” to the day is that I managed to cock up not one, not two, but three time lapses that would have been quite special. I started, and then stopped three different time lapses thinking they were “boring”, and that there wasn’t much happening. Big mistake. I now have two one second, and one three second time lapse that with another fifteen to twenty seconds of footage on each of them, they’d have been awesome.
Still it’s a lesson learnt, and interesting to know that I’m still not patient, and rush around. Something to work on . . .
You can view more images from The Roaches, and my gallery of other Peak District locations.
