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©2007-2009 ~si-monty
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Taken while staying in Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales. I believe that the cliff edge thing in the distance at the centre of the photo is called Simon’s Seat. Some PhotoShop tinkering for this one.

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:icontomcrocker:
Gorgeous exposure, the perfect light. It really brings out the gentle roll in the valley. Coupled with the brilliant blue and warm tones this is fantastic.
:iconsi-monty:
Thank you very much.

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:icondanielsands:
I was pretty sure the internet would confirm it's Simon's seat as I believed it was too, well I think I'll be who told you it was hehe. It turns out Simon's seat is the mountain to the left of the one in your photo. Great photo, I like the blue sky and clouds as the descending Sun casts its light up along the valley. Here is some info I found about Simon's seat.

''This is an awesome site, full of raw power. It commands a brilliant view all round, but it is the north which truly draws the eye's attention. Beneath the great drop of this huge outcrop is the haunted and legendary Troller's Ghyll. The scent of as yet undisclosed neolithic sites screams from the moors all round you and there can be little doubt that this was a place of important magick in ancient days.

What seems to be several cup-markings on one of the topmost rocks are, to me, authentic. Harry Speight mentioned them in his 1892 work on the Craven and Northwest Yorkshire Highlands - but there are a number of other rocks in this giant outcrop with 'possibles' on them.

The usually sober pen of Mr Speight thinks this to have been one the high places of druidic worship, named after the legendary Simon Druid. 'It is however, hardly likely,' he wrote, 'that he ever sat there himself, but was probably represented by some druidical soothsayer on whom his mystic gifts descended.'

I've gotta say, I think there's something distinctly true about those lines. Visit this place a few times, alone, during the week, or at night - when there's no tourists about - and tell me it isn't...''
:iconsi-monty:
It's almost Simon's Seat then. I didn't know there was so much history to the place. I think we'll have to go there next time we're in Grassington. Thanks for the comment.

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:icondanielsands:
Yeah almost, to be more accurate than my comment Simon's seat is the peak of the mountain (Barden fell) to the left of the one in your photo. Yeah lets go and visit it!
:iconsi-monty:
So you cannot actually see it in this shot then?

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:icondanielsands:
Yes that's correct.

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