Minninglow A Bronze Age Burial Site Derbyshire

[Nick Lukey]

A few from yesterday, and last week. Yesterday the weather was not the best. This is a burial site just off the Tissington trail. The surrounding views are lovely and give a real feel of the Dales landscape. One thing I do love about this area is the sharp contrast you sometimes get if you get the timing right.

Super light from last week old wall contrasted against a stormy sky


The last of the sun was just catching the the hillside

A distant shot of the treeline under a wonderful layered sky



Sheep gather by some windswept firs


Minniglow framed through a gate


Sheep trail to Minninglow

The burial grounds under a threatening sky



The burial site and guardians

Hope you enjoy looking at these, and if your around The Tissington trail then go and have a look at this rather special place. I was on my own late in the afternoon and felt quite strange about it, certainly has some atmoshphere to it.

 

[Pete Askew]

What a fabulous set Nick. I especially like the latter ones with the site framed by the gateway, sheep trail and the last two. Although I have never been to the site, you seem to have captured something of the feel you refer to and certainly the threatening sky helps. Nice.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wonderful shots, Nick, and I especially love the darkness of the first. Are you using Nik Silver for b&w?

 

[Nick Lukey]

Wonderful shots, Nick, and I especially love the darkness of the first. Are you using Nik Silver for b&w?

Yes Rob its the only tool monochrome for me, it gives me a look similar to my old film days. The X pro files seem to love being converted with Nik. I use Topaz too but not the monochrome, Nik is bang on for me.

What a fabulous set Nick. I especially like the latter ones with the site framed by the gateway, sheep trail and the last two. Although I have never been to the site, you seem to have captured something of the feel you refer to and certainly the threatening sky helps. Nice.

 

[Nick Lukey]

What a fabulous set Nick. I especially like the latter ones with the site framed by the gateway, sheep trail and the last two. Although I have never been to the site, you seem to have captured something of the feel you refer to and certainly the threatening sky helps. Nice.

Well Pete thanks Im glad you like them. It certainly is worth going to see, and a doddle to get too. I need some snow for my next visit, or maybe a really cold dawn, we will see. At the moment the weather is so poor, very difficult trying to plan any sort of landscape shoot.

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice set and I really like the first and the last in particular. I do suspect that you need to calibrate your monitor as there are obvious black blobs around the tree in the first. I guess this may be from some heavy burning around the tree?

 

[Nick Lukey]

Nice set and I really like the first and the last in particular. I do suspect that you need to calibrate your monitor as there are obvious black blobs around the tree in the first. I guess this may be from some heavy burning around the tree?

Hi Paul

Not too sure about the monitor bit, as I do large format printing everyday,and the monitor is pretty much bang on, maybe a little artifacting I guess. On the original file I have just run a de noise action on it and it appears ok. Glad you liked them though.

 

[Aldous Lau]

Superb Nick, love this series!

 

[Brian Moore]

Nick I like the illumination of the wall and tree in the first photo (but there seems to be some kind of shadow effect behind the tree that looks unnatural) and I like the dramatic sky in aoll the images. Really a very nice set.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Great set Nick, superb.

 

[Beth Carter]

i noticed the black halo/lines too around the tree in the first. wasn't sure if it was a silhouette of a tree behind it, but it looked odd. great set, i really like the light and shadows on the land in #2.

 

[Nick Lukey]

Thought I would do a re edit on this image, much more even tonal seperation, sometimes I go to dark for my own good lol, thanks for pointing out the problem with it.

 

[Pete Askew]

Ah, that sorted it. And nice to see it a big bigger too.

 

[Nick Lukey]

Hi Pete and thanks

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, that is better.

 

[Paul Lange]

I thought it was just me that could see the dark marks around the tree, thought I was going mad.

 

[Pete Askew]

No, no, no Paul. We could all see it. Honest.

 

[Pete Askew]

Humour him. Have you heard what he did to his last model!

 

[Nick Lukey]

I need to go to specsavers, really my glasses are 2 years out of date

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I preferred the the Sheeptrail to minninglow out of all the good ones. Kind of leading the eye in a better way than the others.