Farndale and the Quakers

Evening bike run to check out the pretty spot near Lowna.
I did some photos of bluebells, garlic and waterfalls but nothing very exciting - it was getting rather too late really.



However liked this pic of the fog swirling around upper Farndale on the way down there.
At home it had been vile most of the day.

Fryup Heads

This is always a fascinating place but not as easy as you might hope to photograph effectively.
The low evening sunlight helped and it's a drone shot - but could probably have almost got the same by walking further down from the road.
The video reveals at least three significant ponds but they may not be always full.

The confusing hillocks in various sizes are practically all the result of a long series of landslides dating back to the last ice age.
At that time the Esk Valley including Fryup was for a while a substantial lake due to the North Sea being filled with an immense ice sheet.

Water got away to the south through NewtonDale and probably to the north past Comondale and West House at different periods.

Markenfield Hall

I saw a couple of shots of this place near Ripon on Flickr - but there aren't many as it only opens on a few days mainly in the spring.
- So decided to go over there on the bike last Friday.
It took a little over an hour going by the more scenic route through Thirsk rather than A168.

The building is rather lovely with encircling moat and neat garden.

Inside you can visit a few principal rooms - the Hall and Chapel mainly

You enter by the undercroft which would have been storage and Kitchen - still perhaps the most interesting room.

The house history is quite turbulent and violent, more info on their website.
It is still more or less a grand farmhouse but the tenant farmer lives in a converted range down one side of the yard.

April

April started very chilly with rain, sleet and snow, but briefly turned hot soon after mid-month.

The daffodils were delayed but then were starting to go over after a very few days.

With lambing and trying to catch up with work not done through the wintery March, not managed to use cameras as much as I'd like but managed these.

Stokesley

Not the most exciting shot but with lovely light the RX100 captured lovely detail in this.
Initially I was struggling to read the RAW files from this camera, but an update to Lightroom Classic resolved it

More drone archaeology

This is an Iron Age enclosure on the moor above Great Ayton.

Also rather nice another visit to our local Hill Fort from same period.

Ruswarp Sheep run

Some of my lambs made top price in their class, but as usual recently there weren't that many in.
This is the gopro Hero4 which I only recently discovered has a 'linear mode' at 2.7K - more or less no fish-eye. (this was added in a firmware update a few months after I got it).

In good light results are now quite pleasing but it is sad to say it has taken well over a year to get to grips with it.

With external mic sound is decent too but I have to do a little tweaking in Adobe Premiere to make it easy to hear.