Once a year, the decid­u­ous beech that sur­rounds the Tarn Shelf turns from green to a beau­ti­ful yel­low. I’ve walked into the Tarn Shelf a few times but always man­aged to miss out on this lim­ited oppor­tu­nity. Know­ing it was the right time of the year, I set off early (7am) hop­ing for pretty reflec­tions on the Tarn and to avoid the crowds (60 peo­ple as we left at 11am). It was a cold but nice morn­ing with fog through­out the Der­went Val­ley.  Unfor­tu­nately once reach­ing the Tarn it was quite breezy so this ruled out any hope of cap­tur­ing the Tarn reflect­ing sur­round­ing fagus.

First four shots were cap­tured with a Canon 24–70 2.8 whilst the remain­ing with a Canon 50 1.4

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