Happy New Year... ish...

Thanks to Jules having the lurgy our New Years Eve was a bit restrained and we decided to take a trip out New Years Day in the fresh air to see the Mappleton Raft Race and Bridge Jump near Ashbourne... but things went awry as we approached Ashbourne and saw the start time on the banner was 11am not Noon as we had seen on the link on a local site. We decided it was too late for getting there to see the bulk of the action so decided to stock up with something for lunch , just as the rain started.


Undeterred even though the weather was turning nastier by the minute we decided to take a trip to Arbor Low ;a place many consider to be the Stonehenge of the North. By this time the rain was rapidly becoming horizontal and as the bulk of the gear we had on was for standing in the cold rather than braving the elements of the Derbyshire Dales it was a brief trip. Also considering the inclemency of the elements I had decided rather than risk the SLR digital camera I would use the two cameras loaded with film that we had with us. Jules did manage to get a couple of shots with her digital compact before the rain got too bad... but macro shots...

The analogue cameras were a brace of Canons' finest, an old SLR EOS 600 loaded with Ilford HP5 and a compact AF Sure Shot 60 Zoom loaded with a roll of Lomography Red Scale XR rated as ISO 100 ... of course pictures will follow once developed!

Doncha love that old fashioned anticipation ?

Meanwhile here is an old shot from 2010 ....

                         February 2010, a photo by Scouse_and_Jules on Flickr.

                   Via Flickr:
                   Arbor Low