Another piece of history for me.

I took this photograph during a series of heady road trips around England and Wales (1989-1991). I was using badly damaged film stock, deliberately, because I had tested the batch extensively and had found a way of rendering images out of it that made them become even more mysterious than photographs usually are.

I have been searching the net, amongst other resources and the nearest I’ve come to pinpointing the location is that I must have taken this somewhere along the A628 on the way to Manchester. The photo was taken from the road side of one of the impressive chain of reservoirs that are backdropped by some typically English highlands. The area seems to be called High Peak. Now this is pure conjecture from my memory that it was near Manchester, and from the details observable in the photograph in correlation with the wonderful tool that is Google Maps. The lay of the highlands on the opposite shore closely approximates my photo, but it is by no means a definitive identification. So anyone who knows the topography of the area better than me, I hope, would let me know exactly where I took this photograph.

(It was a single shot, on damaged Ilford Pan F 25 ASA roll film with a hand held Mamiya 645 on a standard (80mm) lens in twilight. No other effects have been employed. I’d just like to point out to the photoshop generation, there was a time when photographers did their work through an intimate knowledge of camera/optics, lighting, film chemistry and darkroom technique).

Something else just came up on the Google Maps search that may be more correct topographically! This could have been taken at Dovestone Reservoir… Any ideas?