On The Roof by rockstrider
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Hello All!
This is another pic from Sunday taken at Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales of North Yorkshire and is the roof of the cove. We had waited in this spot for quite some time trying to get shots with no or few people in it but this quickly became obvious it was not going to happen as it was a very busy bank-holiday weekend, despite the poor weather. I changed tactic and decided to get as many people as possible instead.
The magnificent limestone pavement on the surface of the Cove roof is deeply fissured and fretted by a pattern of channels. Chemical weathering due to the slightly acidic rain dissolves and widens the many joints of the limestone carving the patterns that can be seen today. The resulting limestone pavement is known as 'clints' and 'grykes', where the naked limestone lumps are the clints and the fissures in between are the grykes. The grykes are home to many rare (shade-loving) plants - harts-tongue fern, wood-sorrel, wood-garlic, geranium, anemone, rue, and enchanter's nightshade.
I have used five differently exposed images from the same RAW file and blended them together to show how the scene would look to the eye as if you were there in person to see it. A slight alteration of levels, saturation boost, as well as a touch of dodge and burn was also used.
There will be more yet to follow from this shoot.
Thanks for looking and any comments and critique are, as always, more than welcome and valued!
Carl
Comments (31)
durleybeachbum
Fabulous! I missed out on a field studies trip 50 years ago to there.
johndoop
Wow great place! Wonderful !!!!
aksirp
what a beautiful landscape, perfect place for a walk! magnificent picture perfectly done, great to see so wide! I am so glad to see your work again!
Rainastorm
Oh how I would love to be there....magnificent shot!!
sandra46
WONDERFUL WORK
Richardphotos
very beautiful landscape
ronmolina
Nice!
girsempa
As I read your story about waiting for quite some time to get a shot with no people, here's a technique to remove people from a photograph: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103908662/74/Layer-blending-to-remove-tourists Maybe this could come in handy on occasions such as this.
erlandpil
very beautiful landscape agree erland
flavia49
splendid panorama
jeroni
exceptional work!
tennesseecowgirl
beautiful work!!
wysiwig
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Wonderful capture of a beautiful landscape.
Ilona-Krijgsman
what an outstanding view.....a wonderful place to explore
kgb224
Superb photography my friend. God bless.
jayfar
This is a wonderful shot Carl, I would love to go and look for myself and the people add scale which you didn't have to pay for!!
FredNunes
The post work here blows my mind. I am afraid I lack the attention span and patience for this. Incredible results.
Celart
Great place and shot. Nicely done.
rainbows
Beautiful capture, dear Carl. I like the people in it. Hugs for all day. Di. xx
dakotabluemoon
A very beautiful capture my friend.
moochagoo
A very impressive place :)
blondeblurr
Great and wide open spaces, it could almost be scary to get too close to the edge - but what a magnificent panorama of the escarpment, a cool HDR image result, BB
Cyve
Marvelous image !!!
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous part of UK ;-)
tofi
A really gorgeous place! Seems like a heaven on earth that I would love to visit one day! The atmosphere is really something out of this world! Excellent series and view!
anianiani
Stunning place and a beautiful capture...thanks.
pat40
lovely, we walked over there quite a few years ago,
danapommet
A gorgeous view and depth in this photo. I like the textures created by all the clints and grykes!
tommorules
Think I need to visit here. When it's quieter. Great scene!
sossy
wow! impressive landscape! many people are the reason I visit the highlands and norway, no people around g did you enter another sky to the shot or is it hadr?