A Kinder Sunset

Posted by Paul Filby on 4/22/10 • Categorized as England, Photography, Treks & Travels

Living within spitting distance of the hills has opened up all sorts of photographic opportunities. For one, I’m now much better placed to take full advantage of the golden hour, that brief period at the beginning and end of each day when the light can take on an almost magical character, temporarily transforming the landscape with subtle gradations of tone and colour that are denied to most daytime vistitors.

Now, I’m really not a morning person (and this isn’t the first time I’ve admitted so on this blog), so the evening golden hour was my target today. I can see enough of the western sky and surrounding landscape from my kitchen window to get a rough feel for what photographic opportunities might prevail, and so it was that I left Buxton at a quarter-to-seven this evening, for the 20-minute drive over to Hayfield.

By the time I’d parked at the Bowden Bridge car park and stomped my way over to Kinder Reservoir, it was clear that I needed to up the pace a bit if I was to get up onto Kinder Scout in time for that precious golden light. In the end, I was probably a little late (and knackered — I stopped probably 100 vertical feet short of the Kinder plateau), but was treated to an interesting sunset over Manchester.

So, some pics…