....nice weather (for a change. The K10D has proved to be a regular rain-making machine when I take out out thus far).

dave

[foxglove]

Looks like a lovely spot for a walk, the road curving around the rock outcrop looks inviting. The hill's rather bare - sheep grazing or is it naturally that way? I was also wondering about the trees where they are against the sky - they seem very blue. Did you tweak the colour or did they come out that way on their own?

Julie

[dave kitson]

Looks like a lovely spot for a walk, the road curving around the rock outcrop looks inviting.

The roads that you see only go for a couple of hundred yards round the corner before becoming a rocky path. The walk follows the river Dove for several miles, it is a limestone river of really crystal-clear water, full of very educated brown trout. This is the old stamping ground of Izaak Walton (author of "The Compleat Angler" you need to be a trout angler to understand this).

The hill's rather bare - sheep grazing or is it naturally that way?

The sides of the gorge are limestone covered by less than 1 inch of soil and are grazed by sheep, any vegetation does well to survive there.

I was also wondering about the trees where they are against the sky - they seem very blue. Did you tweak the colour or did they come out that way on their own?

Julie

I am afraid that is CA (purple fringing). The contrast was pretty high in that part of the image and I was rather sloppy with the PP.

dave