Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Pena del Tejo

Granite scenery in the fore and middle ground. The higher mountains in the distance are of different rock but still metamorphic with gneiss predominating.

Granite, Sierra de La Cabrera

Granite rocks, Pena del Tejo, La Sierra de La Cabrera.

Granite boulder, about 2 metres high.

Sierra de La Cabrera. This orchid is fairly common and is pretty large. Maybe Anacamptis picta but I'm unsure. Often I come across a beautiful orchid which has seen fit to establish itself in the most awkward and inaccessible spot or with absolutely no background merit. Very rare to find them in an ideal location for a photo, such as here!

Wild rose hips in La Sierra de La Cabrera. A VERY hot Summer's day.

Sierra de La Cabrera. Full screen has been suggested.

La Sierra de La Cabrera, Mondalindo and the rocky little granite outcrop that is Peña del Tejo.

My first couple of years in these mountains and I hardly saw a cloud, whatever the season. I revelled in this blanket blue sky-ness at first (well I would, having come form England) but it began to pall and I started to look forward to weather forecasts predicting mixed sunshine and cloud and only then would I head for the hills! But I accept that blue sky has its place! Foreground lichen and distant hills want z, apparently. The Nokia N95 cameraphone was a superb camera and a sh.te phone and I much regret my dropping it in a bog. It performed well above expectations on autofocus from close up through mid-distance stuff right through to distant mountains. I didn't know how lucky I was. Subsequent cameraphones (Samsung and Moto) haven't been as good with regards auto focusing, imho!

Pena del Tejo granite in sun. Mondalindo partly in cloud

Rock window (perhaps hopefully onto a brighter future for us all?). The way I took (not a path at all really) went under this rock. Very common to have a giant boulder wedged over a gully in granite country! Granite forms on Pena del Tejo, a little to one side of La Sierra de La Cabrera proper but terrific scrambling territory in its own right. Indeed I spent a whole day here, intending to move on to the main ridge but finding a day's worth of interest at this place, including the mountain stream close-ups I sometimes post. photo taken 2012 and first posted on ipernity in 2017.

Typical of the granite scenery here.