The Limestone Pavement by rockstrider

Photography • Landscape • posted on Aug 28, 2013

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[best viewed full sized] Hello All! This is the last in this mini-series of images gathered on and around Malham Cove, North Yorkshire, in May. 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. This is a 180 degree panoramic image of 12 shots stitched together in 6 different exposures from RAW files (a total of 72 separate image parts) and blended 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. The flying crow has been added from a different shot taken at the top of the cove due to the longer exposure landscape captures. Thanks for looking and any comments and critique are, as always, more than welcome and valued! Carl

Comments (27)

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Hendesse

9:48AM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Stunning panorama, I like the textures of the rocks in the foreground and the wide view. Excellent shot!

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giulband

9:53AM | Wed, 28 August 2013

very good photo !!!!!!!

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abreojos

10:00AM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Beautiful countryside and amazing job stitching it all together!

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kgb224

11:31AM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

alanwilliams

12:10PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

the bird adds an extra piece of magic

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EyeOfTheBeholder

12:47PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Awesome shot of a beautiful part of the country.

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anianiani

12:49PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Stunning place and capture.

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jayfar

1:08PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Super shot Carl - just like actually being there.

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durleybeachbum

2:12PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Stunning! It is like a fabulous painting!

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sandra46

5:09PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

VERY BEAUTIFUL

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jeroni

6:44PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

Beautiful composition. excellent work

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wysiwig

11:51PM | Wed, 28 August 2013

The hard cracked stone contrasts with the soft rolling hills to create a superb image. The bird is a special bonus.

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dakotabluemoon

6:39AM | Thu, 29 August 2013

Wow never seen anything like this nice shot of this land.

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sossy

10:14AM | Thu, 29 August 2013

what a gorgeous pano and incredible landscape! heavy contrast by rocks in front and fields in the background! ;o)

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flavia49

3:56PM | Thu, 29 August 2013

marvellous image

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FredNunes

4:07PM | Thu, 29 August 2013

Your attention span amazes me to do this amazing work. Superb!

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erlandpil

5:56PM | Thu, 29 August 2013

good photo erland

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PREECHER

9:50PM | Thu, 29 August 2013

this is gorgeous...love it... chills and thrills

angora

11:44PM | Fri, 30 August 2013

awesome job and place!!! love it!!! birdy makes it a treat like the patterns too, but not the chemical part :-(

rockstrider

3:49AM | Sat, 31 August 2013

The chemical weathering is natural and will have been like this for thousands of years before humans even came to the British Isles. It's not something that anybody did but rather that it just happens. I suppose it would be interesting to know if the process has been dramatically increased over the last hundred years though!

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