Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: reservoir

Nice silver birch trees at the edge of the reservoir at Stone Edge cupola, near Ashover, Derbyshire

This is the Stone Edge chimney and reservoir near Ashover, Derbyshire. It is recorded as being the oldest industrial chimney in Britain, built around 1770 as part of a lead-smelting cupola.

Ladybower reservoir (western arm) and the Ashop Valley viewed from Bamford Edge, in the Peak District National Park.

Ladybower reservoir viewed from Bamford Edge in the evening sunshine; Peak District National Park.

Evening sunshine over Ladybower reservoir viewed from Bamford Edge, in the Peak District National Park. Best viewed large.

Ladybower reservoir and the Derwent Valley viewed from Bamford Edge, in the Peak District National Park.

I'm always interested in viewing landscapes in different ways and occasionally I experiment with exaggerating the vertical scale of my photos. I'm not sure of the validity of this as a photography technique or an art-form, but I do quite like the effect it produces and quite often this enhances geological and geomorphological features, and so is useful as a teaching aid. This is a view of Ladybower Reservoir taken from Bamford Edge in the Peak District. Here, the River Derwent has cut down through the Namurian ('Millstone Grit') succession - mainly Kinderscout Grit and the Shale Grit (an unfortunate name). The hillsides plunge straight down into the water, clearly showing how these are drowned valleys. Less obvious in a normal view, but brought out by this exaggerated scale is the relative flatness of the tops of the hills, above the 'V'-shaped notch of the valleys. This indicates a much earlier uplifted erosion surface (probably Tertiary age) on which the proto-Derwent and other rivers became established. The stepped topography of the hillsides is due to the presence of alternating hard sandstones and softer shales.

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