1983
SD2199 : Summit rocks of Harter Fell
taken 41 years ago, 3 km from Cockley Beck, Cumbria, England
Summit rocks of Harter Fell
Taken on a walk from just west of the top of Hardknott pass on my weekly commute between West Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales, this would have been after work on a Friday evening and one of my ploys to avoid getting to the pub too early ! Other dateable photos on this film bracket the dates. 19th August is the earliest it could have been, and there would have been less evening daylight week by week after that, so although 26th August is possible, later Fridays seem increasingly unlikely. The photographer would certainly have been on the highest point (653m) with another of the small summit tors just in view. The distant summit is Bow Fell, with Esk Pike to its left and Crinkle Crags to the right. Another shot (not useful for geograph) shows the sun very low in the west, so I suspect there would have well under an hour of sunlight left. Since the exif data won't tell you, the photo was taken on a Yashica TL-Electro-S on Kodachrome 25, scanned (at 5400 dpi) a little over 37 years later.
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