Myself and Nick live approximately 7 miles away from each other, Nick came to my house and dropped his car off and we set off on our journey. The sun was shining and sunglasses were on. From Castleford, we went up the Mary Panel which is said to be haunted by a witch (I may document that in the future) then joined the A1 North at Garfoth and left at the Harewood exit. From there, carried on and drove past Harewood house a few turns later we were approaching the village of Arthington. We actually pulled over to see if we could get a decent viewpoint, unfortunately there wasnt one and quickly carried on with our journey.

missing the turn off for the track to the viaduct was a fail (It all adds to the fun) We quickly back tracked and turned on to the little country lane and followed it down so we could park up.

Look What I Found?

There I was setting up my composition and dialling the camera settings in ready to take my first shot, then I saw it! Just to my left in the long grass there was  a black plastic object. When I picked it up I quickly realised it was actually a Newer remote trigger used in photography.

I already have one of these, however it is rare I use it, I’m too lazy and use the 2 second timer function on the camera. Clever aren’t I 😉
The shot of the viaduct was done and I was happy with the result on the back of my camera, so I decided to post the Trigger I found on the Leeds Photography group on Facebook as I know alot of the guys on there do travel around and come to this area.  Shortly after an update came through to my phone, it was  a guy from pontefract, he said it was his as he lost his at the viaduct. This post on Facebook got quite alot of activity afterwards too.

Following my landscape shots I decided to pop the Sigma 105mm Macro Lens onto the Canon 6D  that I use and started looking for bugs.
Macro Photography is something I love doing as it allows me to get really close into subjects and get lots of detail you dont normally see. The only issue is because of the shallow depth of field these lenses give, focusing can be tricky, especially when you have to get right down sometimes on your back, like the video below.