From the archives: When I had turned around the sky was just something else. Arts of a glorious sunset over the cooling towers of Radcliffe-On-Soar Powerstation.

It was October of 2023 and I had been out, but there was one location that I wanted to visit, for I had seen the sky beginning to do something else, something completely and utterly beautiful and that of course was a certain glow in the sky beginning to form - something of a truly stunning Autumnal Sunset was going to take place - but just where to watch it from? Well that would end up being the aptly named "Trent Lock" a location that is situated just outside of the Derbyshire town of Long Eaton, a place in which The Erewash Canal meets up with The River Trent, and the River Soar also meets up with The River Trent. And of course it is also where Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire all meet up, but what other famous landmark can be seen from Trent Lock, just across The RIver Trent? Ah, that is the famous cooling towers of Radcliffe-On-Soar Powerstation, now defunct sadly. But when I had visited in October of 2023, as I had said above, the sky was just beginning to do something beautiful, for nature had started to pain the sky, and I just had to walk along the side of The River Trent to a viewpoint in which I had only moments to spare, I turned around and over a period of a couple of moments, what happened? 

The sky metaphorically just exploded into a painting of colour, ahead a Rainbow and me, well I just had to capture the couple of moments in which the sky just lit up and nature had created its artwork for me to see, and below are the photos that I ended up walking away with.

"Stillness in the water, a sky on fire."

"The Rainbow, A Glow, A Sky like Nothing Else."

"The glow, the towers, the water."

"Reflections on the water, Radcliffe, a strange sense of calm."

From the archives: the Derbyshire village of Ashover and a glorious "golden glow" over the landscape.

Derbyshire as a county is one of contrasts, beauty and delights. For it is a county as well that has a plethora of various landscapes, from limestone dales that form The Derbyshire Dales, through to the more dramatic heather clad moorlands and outcrops of gritstone, otherwise known as The Peak District. But whilst The Derbyshire Dales and The Peak District are also known for being busy with touritsts, Derbyshire itself also has some places that are a little bit more, "off the beaten track."

And it was a few years ago that I was visiting Ashover, a delightful small village located within The Amber Valley, an area located between Chesterfield and Alfreton along with Matlock, and after a delightful walk around the village of Ashover it was then time to head to Ashover Rock, located just above the village of Ashover - a place of delightful views across The Amber Valley and Ashover down below, towards Chesterfield and Sheffield to the north. 

But as I was looking at the view, I was also observing the light and the way the landscape was, for the sun was just beginning to set, and down below I could see the village of Ashover, I could also see a composition, with the gorse bush providing a yellow/golden element, the village down below and a golden like sky in the distance. I just had to capture what I had seen, and below is what I had managed to capture.

"Ashover and The Golden Glow."

From the archives: Autumn from Alma Hill in Nottinghamshire, and quite possibly my favourite photo that I took.

I will never forget the time that I was standing one afternoon on the top of Alma Hill, in Nottinghamshire looking across in the distance to Greasley Church, for it was an October afternoon and there was just a little something about the sky, no idea what it was but the light was also perfect, and with that perfect light and of course a rather Autumnal looking scene in front of me, I just had to capture it, and below is what I was left with. 

"Greasley Surrounded by Autumn."