Derbyshire as a county is home to an amazing and unique plethora of various landscapes, from gentle rolling hills to the more soothing and calming delights of fertile farmlands, curious sweeping valleys and of course the more dramatic and bleak moorlands that can be found in the more northern parts of the county. And yet the other thing Derbyshire is famed for is beautiful charming towns and villages, each with character and each with a certain sense of beauty, thus history - and on Monday the 27th of January 2025 I had found myself at Belper River Gardens, located in the town of Belper, a town with an industrial heritage that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. Yet as a town goes it is also located geographically in a unique part of Derbyshire, and that of course happens to be beside the banks of The River Derwent, more importantly the historic Lower Derwent Valley which is home to the UNESCO Derwent Valley Heritage Mills. And whilst the River Gardens can be explo...
It was back in 2024 that I managed to get my hands on a Drone, yes think of the word "Drone" and what springs to mind? Science Fiction perhaps? Ukraine even? Well yes they may do, but as a landscape photographer I have always wanted a drone! And well when I managed to get my hands on one, it changed the way that I looked at the landscape, even from a low altitude or up high, the landscape can look truly magical - but it is also perhaps the James Popsys elements that I also love about a landscape and that of course is the following, "The element of something Human within a landscape, perhaps that could even be something as magical as a small but beautifully artistic creation of Architecture." Okay, perhaps a strange thing to say but the landscape and elements of humans and the built environment is what can make a landscape that little bit more magical, along with Architecture, but there is a certain kind of Architecture that I also really do like and that of cours...