30th April 2006

Gordale Scar near Malham in Yorkshire is an impressively oppressive location. Entering the gorge you round a corner into a cove where the walls above you loom high above and at the far end a waterfall cascades from a hole cut through the very rock itself (gushing high above the top of this photograph)  It is not somewhere you would want to be at night.

I visited Gordale Scar last year and took quite a few handheld digital photographs, and regretted afterwards that I didn't bother to use my tripod to get a decent shot. So on returning to the Dales, I knew this was somewhere I would want to revisit with the right gear. I wasn't disappointed - the spot was as amazing as I remembered with the goldeny brown limestone riverbed and pounding water.  If it's good enough for Turner to paint, it's good enough for me!