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Snowboarding in Bath
With all the snow that has hit the UK recently it has converted many places to look more like ski resorts than British cities, with Bath being one of them. With this in mind, a friend and I decided to do some snowboarding in a field literally right next to his house! Unfortunately without the creature comforts that real ski resorts supply in the form of lifts up there was a lot of walking and the occasional begging on people with cars to get to the top. From the photos it is hard to tell that these were actually taken…
Snowy Bath
Yesterday I headed into Bath to see a friend from school and Bath was covered in snow, so much snow that we actually went snowboarding (these pictures will appear in a later blog post). Shortly after I arrived at his house it was pointed out that a pair of deer were at the opposite side of the field next to their house, so in an attempt to get my first wildlife pictures of an animal other than a bird I hastily changed lens and “stealthily” ran across the field to get as close as I could before spooking them, unfortunately…
Winter Wonderland
This weekend I was up in the Brecon Beacons and unfortunately it had warmed up so most of the snow had gone but I was caught out by the trecharious conditions walking to the waterfalls that are near Ystradfellte, as the paths were covered in ice and made walking very difficult, but it was worth it as when we got to the waterfalls there was still a large amount of ice left which was a stunning site. I just wish that I could have been there last week when it was a long way below freezing as I think that…
Yorkshire Caving
This weekend was the annual meet up of lots of university caving clubs, and this year it was up in Yorkshire at the Dalesbridge Center. It was a very cold weekend with snow forecast but we decided to go caving anyway and headed up to Gaping Gill. I went to Gaping Gill with a specific photo in mind, but overlooked the fact that it is winter up north and it gets dark early so when we got to main chamber it was dark outside which was fairly disappointing but I tried to make the best of the situation and came…
Hunting with the North Herefordshire Hunt
On Saturday evening myself and David from Vero Photography were booked to shoot the North Herefordshire Hunt ball in the evening so we decided to go along to the hunt (hound exercise and trail hunting) in the aim to get some more business and have some fun while we were up there. I have hunted all my life on horse back but we discovered that it is a lot harder to follow the hunt on foot, especially when you don’t have a four wheel drive car, my poor focus went to places that it just should not have been! The…
Single Rope Technique
Today some of the members of the caving club I am a member of were doing some Single Rope Technique (SRT) training with ISCA Outdoor in preperation for our trip up to Yorkshire in a few weeks time. SRT is where you go up and down vertical ropes to enable access to cave systems which involve large changes in height such as Gaping Gill and Allum pot as shown in my portfolio. As I had to drive them there I decided to stick around and take some pictures. Though unfortunatly due to a lack of club SRT kit one of…