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Lake District but I'm hard press to say which Lake!
The woodland behind makes me think Derwentwater, but probably a less well known one like Crummock. -
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The bit of east coast from Redcar to Whitby faces almost north and in summer sun rises and sets over the sea offering potential maximum sunshine hours.
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The colour is displaying incorrectly here, it should look like this. But click it as thumb is also desaturated
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Blakey may be a dialect-ish version of 'Bleak'.
A cold windswept spot in any season, the chief hardship is the wind, which is practically unceasing.
The distant ridge is the Howardian Hills in the vicinity of Castle Howard. -
I would've thought the greener stripes seen now have rather deeper topsoil so I guess they dug shallow ditches around little fields as they cleared them.
There would have been a need to fence animals in or out probably using poles cut from surrounding woodland.
They would have been growing rye, barley, oats and hay mainly I expect. -
These have never been recorded before at this location.
On the ground you just see unhappy clover plants.
The surrounding hills nave various known sites, dating to around 400BC -
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That's actually a hogweed you can see a few dry seeds remaining.
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It's quite hard to be sure without good binoculars, I think the low hills are where the B1257 road runs from Malton towards Helmsley.
So Castle Howard(ish) is just over the skyline.It's taken from a grassy track through fields on high ground between Hutton-le-Hole and Appleton-le-Moors.
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This version really needs a slight rotate to the left [oops]
The waterfall is actually quite a small feature in dry spells like now. -
It might be rotating but I'd call that scud or something.
A proper funnel has a much more defined form with the 'wall' of the vortex clearly visible, almost a rope-like formation.
Rotating updraughts or downdraughts are common in powerful shower clouds but a funnel cloud needs to be a more defined vortex.
I't's like when you pull the plug in a sink - the water often rotates, but you only briefly (might) get that whirlpool effect where the rotation speed increases enormously.
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Well spotted, it's only from a single RAW file though.
The tractor was quite backlit from this viewpoint so a good candidate for the technique, which also showed the driver's footprints better.
(and note all the rabbit prints!)
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Proper dry wind blown stuff, you don't see it in town that often
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No it's a photoshop filter called Nik colour Efex Pro.
I know what you mean though.
The contrast has been manipulated to accentuate the sky.
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No problem if you want to.
I think the size when you save it will be 1024 pixels a bit bigger than it shows in the pop-out here.
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I'll add one, the light was a bit poor while up there actually.
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This site seems to make them a bit soft even viewed full size.
It's on flickr here
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8028/7611517406_b95f0d1513_b.jpg
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It's the lens which came as kit with my 5D, a 24-105mm
On the full frame 5D it is wide enough for most landscapes but if you're on a crop sensor the 10-20 should be useful.
(I see I had it at 85mm in this shot)
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I really couldn't say, truth is the single track road is in something of a dip, and the piles of snow are pushed up by a digger but they are about 6 feet in places.
This is a good 24 hours after the snow fall ended and it has been thawing so will have sunk down considerably.
There would be some spots with far deeper snow than this place elsewhere on the moors.
Any who know the area will be aware there are expansive plateau-like areas of open heather over which snow can drift until it drops into a small valley - then on that edge you can get very deep snow indeed although measuring on a steep slope is problematic.
A more revealing statistic is that my weather station has counted 36mm of rain this month and all but 3 or 4mm of that is from snow melt.
Plus since it was very windy and snow was blowing almost horizontally a great deal will not have been counted.
So a conservative estimate is that we had about 40mm of precipitation which fell as snow even here in the valley. An accepted approximate conversion is 1 to 10 which suggests 40cm of snow fell, mostly in the space of 12 hours between 6pm 3rd April and 6am 4th April.
Precipitation can sometimes be 50% greater over the high ground than here in the relatively sheltered valley - especially in a scenario like this storm where moisture laden air from the sea is dumping onto the first high ground it meets.
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Wow, loads of grass.
We are weeks behind you here in North Yorks.
10th April 2021
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