An afternoon walk up Hebers Ghyll onto Ilkley Moor. The light seemed right.

The garden is full of fresh greens and rich detail. Tall image, needs a click.

#WoodEngraving of Dunstanburgh Castle across a stormy Embleton Bay, one wild, winter weekend in Northumberland.

The unwelcome task of re-organising photo files. It does have the compensation of uncovering images you had forgotten about... patterns in frozen puddles...

Afternoon walk on Ilkley Moor. Looking at the small things.

#Lichens #macro #FocusStacking

A brief escape to a wet Lake District. Skein after skein of pink-footed geese over a glaciated landscape.

Pinpointing a final few Bronze Age carved stones on Ilkley Moor before preparing a self-guided walk. Some of the lesser stones are more intriguing than the large, intricate and prominent - inexplicable moments of human endeavour from 3-4,000 years ago. The patchy woodland in which they were carved has gone and the stones now sit in open moorland.

#archaeology #prehistory

A few more of the hundreds of Bronze Age carvings on the sandstone rocks of Ilkley Moor. Sometimes faint and easy to miss, they are best seen lit by a low sun. They were cut as much as 4,000 years ago.

Nothing in the designs or their placement in the landscape gives us persuasive clues as to why people made them.

Ilkley Moor trees. Foggy pines and lichens on rowan.

Over the River Wharfe and through Middleton Wood. A cold, bright winter day but not very photogenic - these are from a morning that was.

The freezing fog on Ilkley Moor lifted this morning, leaving a delicate tracery of hoar frost.

#frost #winter #fog #moor

Walking down off Ilkley Moor in the minutes before sunset. December, yet many of the birch trees still have their leaves, glowing in the dusk.