Stuart Paulley is a retired teacher in his late-seventies. He started taking photographs when he was 10 and since then has always taken his camera while out walking, with his camera slung over his chest like a dog walker will often carry the lead. His camera for 50 years was a Zenit-B SLR and it was only the difficulty of getting slide film processed in the pandemic that made him (reluctantly!) go digital.
Stuart is an “incomer” to the South Pennines and finds great interest in the unique combination of natural beauty and mankind’s influence in this wonderful area.
The South Pennines covers the hill country between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, easily accessible but less well known than other walking hot spots. This is an area of high moorland with deep, often wooded valleys and drained by fast-flowing rivers such as the Colne and Calder.Early textile...