Herb Riddle's photos

The view from my front window as I ate breakfast yesterday. A very cold day indeed and quite treacherous under-foot and in the car. I did have an opportunity to visit our Tandle Hill Park though as the PiP shows. In actual fact I ventured out locally on Sunday whilst the snow was falling heavily too and you see I have posted one of those too. (See adjacent photos) Enjoy full screen

As snow grips our area, I swiftly take the opportunity to grab some shots whilst in this area. A great time for sledging and families. A long time since I last saw snow in here so early in the winter.

Its Sunday and a very fast drop in temperatures to minus three brings along snow as well. During the night we had a visit from Storm Arwen with its almost 100 mph winds resulting in many trees blowing over, as can be seen here. Enjoy full size.

A lovely place to sit whilst your friend or partner does a bit of fly fishing. This taken near the little sea-loch of Inverkirkaig in the Scottish Highlands. Following this river upwards we come to The Falls of Kirkaig shortly. See PiPs. Enjoy full screen.

This is another shot from the area known as little Assynt. The building you see here is actually a WC using natural and clean resources (i.e saw-dust thrown into pan after use!) etc. The plaque shows one of the messages on the wooden structure and to me rings very true. See PiPs of the same area . (Snow forecast for us today.) Have a great Sunday.

A day or so back we got up to a view point that we have never got to before. I knew it had to be around where we were, for I had seen many great railway photo taken from up here. Beneath this viaduct runs the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and I have often peered upwards wondering how to get to this highpoint. After waiting quite some time for a train in an even better position than this, I was just giving up after walking back up the hill through wet vegetation when my wife shouted "here comes a train". Indeed it was the Express from Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St after running through the Standedge Railway tunnel just a mile or so further up. This is a Class 802 bi-mode Diesel-Electric - No. 802209 on the 9M20 0947 service. Enjoy full screen

Little Assynt in the Highlands is the venue for this fenced footbridge. This view came and went with the very mixed weather here. Most of this walk was ‘wheelchair access’ friendly, allowing for people with disabilities to share in this wild setting. Have a great weekend. Herb

A brisk stroll on Perranporth beach is good to clear the head. A series of shots taken here in the wind showing the roughness of the seas and the cliffs almost hidden by the windswept spume. Enjoy the adjacent additional photos too from almost the same spot. Enjoy full screen.

A brisk stroll on Perranporth beach is good to clear the head. A series of shots taken here in the wind showing the roughness of the seas and the cliffs almost hidden by the windswept spume. Notice the difference in colouring here to my beach 2 capture showing what a bit of sun does. Enjoy the next additional photos too from almost the same spot. Enjoy full screen.

This area has real history. The Romans, whist occupying England had a fort just right of this scene. Here we see not a Roman fort but a diversion outlet for one of the feeder streams running from the higher Saddleworth Moors surrounding us here. I think too that the house looking building is in fact a small pump-house but I might be wrong. Our path in facts goes across the top of the dam wall just to the right of where I stand. Have a good day.

Mosses and grasses cling to life atop this fence post taken with such strong side lighting that all else is thrown into darkness. Just short of an insect climbing the stalk. Have a good day.

We just love a seat with a view, and not many can compare with something like this. Let’s take a seat overlooking this giant Perran Bay and drink in the sight of the rolling sea whilst listening to the roar of the breaking waves. The people on the beach look like ants from up here but quite different views await us down there seeing the giant incoming waves up close with adventurous surfers ‘strutting their stuff’. In the distance we see Ligger Point. Enjoy full screen PS before you ask – I don’t really think there was a big drop from in-front of this bench – yes the ground did fall away but only as a gentle slope with a fence before it dropped more drastically. Have a great week.

A loud honking of duck/geese calls draws our attention up to the skies where we see a very large flock of migratory ducks or geese heading south (right to left here). I don’t think I have ever seen such a large flock with even more there than my two photos reveal. There was at least another length as big as the top photo that I missed to capture. As to what kind they were, we could not tell, even from close ups with my original large RAW pictures but we do have, generally much smaller flocks of Canada geese passing us at times and so it might be the same. I include a PiP of my blow up, maybe you can tell what kind they are. Enjoy full screen.

St Agnes in Cornwall is the home to many old mines and here is a small collection of their engine houses. These mined mostly copper and/or tin often from the early Bronze age up to the beginning of the 20th century when these metals either ran low or were mined much cheaper elsewhere. This is ‘Poldark’ country and it seemed on our brief visit around here that there were mines around every corner. Other minerals were also mined including gold, zinc, silver, lithium and arsenic. Cornwall’s neighbour; Devon, also has many such mines. Top row from left is the top of Wheal Coates and one of the Polberro Mines. Bottom from left is Wheal Kitty and then Wheal Charlotte which sits just south of St Agnes Head. Only Wheal Kitty now survives of these, as a visitors centre with workshops and a café. The PiP shows a view of the bottom engine house of Wheal Coates. Enjoy full screen.

Once again my local Tandle Hills Park takes centre stage for a fence. This time in the heart of Autumn and demonstrates just what a beautiful season this can be. For me though, the large centre tree tales the prize for dragging my eyes to that marvellous trunk pattern and light. Best full screen Have a great weekend. Herb

We are on the bay looking towards the sand dunes and village of Perranporth in Cornwall on this windy day. One is usually advised to keep your DSLR camera and len’s well covered up in such conditions as this but I have never been too good with rules. The red dog-poo bin draws our attention of course. Enjoy full screen.

Is it any wonder that I just love this season, when I can get out and take photos like this. Making me be glad to be alive, making me gaze in wonder at natures lovely creations. When it comes to climate change worries around our world, this scene reminds us what we are fighting for. Taken on a walk only some minutes away by car, at the village of Delph in Saddleworth, showing a small private fishing lake, with our public pathway running alongside it Enjoy full screen.

A headland on our south west coast and giving us around 2.5 miles (4km) to walk its wonderful scenic perimeter from Trevanance Cove to Chapel Porth. We are on the ‘South West Coast Path’ in Cornwall. It is in fact England’s longest waymarked long-distance footpath and stretches for 630 miles from Somerset to Dorset. Not only is this area a place of great natural beauty, even in this dull wet weather, but it holds so much of our history too. This area is dotted with old tin & copper mines. Enjoy full screen.