Yorkshire Dales

Like old bones etched into the limestone. Southerscales limestone pavement looks out towards Wherneside one of the three highest peaks in the Yorkshire Dales.

Scalaber Force is a hidden gem of a waterfall. Located just above the beautiful village of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales

Southerscales is located very close to the Ribble Head Viaduct. It is one of the areas of unique limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales. Here sidelight from the late afternoon sun is illuminating both Wherneside and the limestone.

A gnarled and twisted hawthorn tree grows out of the limestone pavement at Southerscales. The late afternoon light catches both the limestone and tree alike.

The cracked and eroded fissures in the limestone pavement prove to be perfect lead-in lines drawing the eye through the image to Wherneside in the distance.

The weather had been awful all day. Fortuitously a break in the clouds and some sunshine happened just as I was passing this hawthorn tree growing out of an isolated area of limestone pavement.

The weather had been awful all day. Fortuitously a break in the clouds and some sunshine happened just as I was passing this hawthorn tree growing out of an isolated area of limestone pavement.

Dry stone walls crisscross the Swaledale countryside making for some interesting if not abstract shapes.

The Wain Wrath Falls are located about a half mile past the village of Keld in Swale Dale. The name of the waterfalls means wagon ford waterfall which must mean that a ford was nearby at one time or another.

As you progress through Swaledale and past Keld the landscape changes and becomes more rugged and isolated.

Janet's Foss is a plunge waterfall situated near the village of Malham at the point where Gordale Beck drops down into Wedber Wood. It is named after a supposed Fairy Queen who lived in the cave behind the waterfall.

Also known as the Cauldren Falls, located a short walk from the village of West Burton

Probably my favorite photograph from this photo trip. I caught the last of the light from the sun as it set, gently highlighting the lone hawthorn tree growing out of the limestone and Wherneside in the distance.