For those who know me, I have reduced my hours down to 3 full days each week, Tuesday to Thursday. Also for those who know me will know that it’s been a busy period over the last few months and whilst I’ve carried on with photography it’s tended to be whilst walking Charlie or whilst on holiday. This Monday I decided it was time to get out with the Sons kit and take some more considered images. It was a lovely day on Monday so I decided to head to Rivington Country Park, lots to see and walks to be had. Having been here before I knew there are two towers and decided to concentrate on those, plus whatever else caught my eye on the walk.
There are lots of paths and trails around this country park but by far the easiest way to get to the top is to follow the paths up from the car park that eventually lead onto the main access road for the park staff. This access road weaves its way up but is the longer route but is less steep than the other paths and staircases. Once you reach the top part of the access road it continues to wind its way across past both towers. he image above was taken maybe 200 yards off the main access road. I quite like the leading lines of the fence and the path, this hands over to the clumps of trees and then the eye ends up at the tower.
It was definitively a decent walk ups to the tower, the last section being some steep steps, which was harder with my heavy backpack on. I think you agree that whilst it’s not the most impressive looking tower it certainly has a good vista within which it is set. I’m quite pleased with this shot as it has two aeroplanes flying over at the same time. To be honest I had no idea they were there but was happy when I reviewed the images in Lightroom. There is a little bit of cloning going on with this image as it was busy and the best I could do was to get only two people in the image by the fence on the right, which of course I’ve cloned out.
A short walk back along the access road and you will see the Pigeon Tower, this is very much more impressive looking structure and the sunlight shining on it helps make the image pop out to a greater extent. You can see in the distance Anglezarc reservoir which I drove past on my way in. There is no cloning on this image as I was able to wait until the various walkers had moved on and the cyclist decided to stop and chat just out of the scene.
The image above was actually the first image I took, to get my eye in so to speak. This is very much a test shot , as a good blast of light would improve this image no end. I do like the road wandering down to and through the bridge, but also the stone wall covered in various bits of foliage, leading the eye down to the bridge, which of course is the main subject of the image. This is a scene to be revisited when I can work out how to get some light onto the bridge.
All these images were taken with my Sony Alpha 7IV, with my 24 to 70 f2.8 GM lens.