#ure force

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Its Just Water Under The Bridge

One of the newest additions to my Yorkshire Dales waterfall catalogue is Ure Force: a delightful series of cascades running through narrowed limestone until the River Ure reaches this point and tumbles over a scar directly underneath Yore Bridge. All in all, an idyllic Yorkshire scene. =)

Ure Force, Upper Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.

ISO100, ƒ/14, 1.2secs at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser (to reduce glare from the water) and a hard 2-stop ND grad filter (to darken the sky) stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure with additional blending help from a lighter and darker exposure. Processed in Sigma Photo Pro, edited in Photoshop.

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Go Chasing Waterfalls

After the changeable and uncooperative conditions of most of this week, it was good that we got a weekend filled with glorious light. Lisabet and I made our way East into the Yorkshire Dales, chasing waterfalls! Our first stop was one we’d never seen before: Ure Force! It actually consists of a cluster of drops, the biggest sits directly underneath Yore Bridge but further upstream are a couple of smaller but still delightful falls that also give a great view towards Wild Boar Fell.

Ure Force, Mallerstang, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.

ISO100, ƒ/18, 1.5secs at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser for the water and a hard 2-stop ND grad to control the sky, both stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is largely a single exposure that was helped in the extreme shadows and highlights with additional bracketed exposures. Processed in Sigma’s Photo Pro, edited in Photoshop.