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Subject: [Leica] A lighthouse and the Yorkshire Dales
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Feb 6 00:26:24 2006
References: <43E696EE.409@gmx.de> <99B9F769-01B3-497B-9E78-E7D5FB19C88D@btinternet.com>

Frank,
I think if I dig deeper I may even find some shots of Craster and 
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, thanks for taking a look. By now just about 
everyone must know Alnwick Castle, Durham Cathedral and the station at 
Goathland (North Yorkshire Moors Railway)  since they  turned up in the 
Harry Potter films (which are surprisingly good)

Norm,
This lighthouse is probably a lot too far south, altough it is 
relatively close to the Scottish border.
 What makes a difference between the landscapes in Yorkshire and 
Lancashire is the underlying geology, the light coloured limestones of 
Northern Yorkshire
give way to the darker millstone grits in the south and  west towards 
Lancashire. Both landscape forms are beautiful in their own way, but 
limestone gives a tang to the air that I've never found anywhere else, 
it's the wonderful refreshing smell of the air in Swaledale that lets me 
know I'm really home.

They've been posted for quite a time, but if you care to take a look 
there are quite a few shots of Swaledale (and Calderdale) here:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Yorkshire

Clicking on the lighthouse and the harvested field take you to other 
galleries of the area (the coast and cloudscapes), so it's best to skip 
these two shots
to look at the rest of the Dales pictures - or run the slide show option.
Cheers
Douglas

Frank Dernie wrote:

> This is a lovely coast Douglas. After I left Lancashire to work in  
> Yorkshire my parents moved to Westmoreland the Northumberland. I did  
> not know it well but remember Craster, Alnmouth and Holy Island  
> (Lindisfarne).
> cheers
> Frank
>
> On 6 Feb, 2006, at 00:23, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>> There are in fact other places not quite as beautiful as Lancashire  
>> and Yorkshire, but Northumberland gets pretty close.
>>
>> I dug this classical lighthouse out from a pile of stuff dating  back 
>> to the mid 1960's to the early 70s - not too sure. but I think  it 
>> was taken with a Kodak Retina IIc RF with a 35mm Curtar-Xenon,  one 
>> of those front element lenses which makes the Retinas so  wonderfully 
>> hard to use, focus with the rangefinder, read off the  distance, turn 
>> the camera upside down and transfer the distance to  one of the other 
>> two distance scales (for 35 and 80mm).
>> The film is definitely AGFA 200 (RS200?). I was also very surprised  
>> that the colours kept so well, the last 25 years or so it was in a  
>> box in a damp cellar, some Kodak and Fuji slides didn't keep so  well 
>> at all.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Ships-and-Boats/IMG003
>>
>> This is St Mary's Lighthouse at Whitley Bay, just up the coast from  
>> Newcastle. Apart from the lighthouse there is an amusement park  
>> here  called "Spanish City", which was sung about by Dire Straits  
>> (the Knopfler brothers were born here, and Sting's brother has a  
>> beachside bar here too).
>> The famous American artist Winslow Homer painted many wonderful  
>> pictures of this stretch of coast (Cullercoats) too.
>>
>> I'm still sorting through some other stuff and racking my memory to  
>> find out when, and where they were taken - there may be more to come.
>> Douglas
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] A lighthouse in a totally different county)
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