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One of the only locations that is worth shooting around where I live, I have been wanting to shoot it in the snow, but have always had lots of people in it in the past, and bland skies due to the snow sky, so figured a Dawn shot was in order!

I stood all yesterday evening with my nose pressed to the window watching the snow with increasing excitement. I am such a kid!!

It was a bit of a hairy drive to get there, I am not really the worlds most skilled snow driver, and the snow was a lot deeper than I am used to. But I got there (and back) without incident which is a bonus :)

Back to a hot cuppa and toast before the rest of the world was up to make the snow all slushy :) bliss

3rd of the 4 panopticons in the Burnley countryside, I didn't really like the look of the colour fields one, so this was my last. This one overlooks the very stunning Wycoller country park.

There was still frost on the ground, and it was a stunning place to be, with very distant views over Pendle and the surrounding area, I have never been to Lancashire before and was thoroughly impressed with the landscape.

However as with all the locations I attempted to shoot this weekend, I had to revise my plans for how to shoot the location due to people staying in the shot! Now I am pretty patient and tolerant, I am happy to wait til people have looked, enjoyed and wandered off in their own time, knowing that a view is not just for me, before I take my shot.

But seeing my tripod set up and then sitting down to have a picnic in front of my camera? not quite so patient in that instance. So I had to move and go for the longer shot of this one.

It appears there is supposed to be a large ball in the middle of this structure, but it looks as though it has potentially been pinched?
Still, many people have a metal ball in their photo, I have a family eating marks and spencers pasta salad in mine, vive la difference!

The singing ringing tree, one of the panopticon sculptures in the Burnley area.

This was one of very few I was able to capture in this location, as a lovely chap decided to settle himself down on the sculpture for a funny smelling rollup! We decided not to hang about.

HaloThe Halo is an artwork set on the expended landfill site (or top 'o' slate) overlooking the town of Haslingden in Rossendale, positioned to be clearly visible from the M66 and A56 approach to Lancashire. It is located at grid reference SD791236. The Halo was the fourth and final Panopticon to be constructed in Lancashire and was launched in September 2007.

The Halo is an 18m-diameter steel lattice structure supported on a tripod five metres above the ground. The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. It is lit after dark using low-energy LEDs powered by an adjacent wind turbine and glows a sky-blue colour, giving the effect of hovering above the town. It was designed by John Kennedy of LandLab.

New years resolution was to visit more photo locations this year, and this location has been on the cards for a while.. So the boys and I went to visit. Admittedly I did sell it to the youngest as we were going to visit a real UFO, so they were rather excited about the trip.

As we were driving there, the sky was really flat and boring, and when we got up to the halo itself it started changing into a variety of colours, I was rather excited. I do love a nice pink sky.

A pleasant day out, but my word its rather high up there for a girl from the fens.

Haslingden Halo
The Halo is an artwork set on the expended landfill site (or top 'o' slate) overlooking the town of Haslingden in Rossendale, positioned to be clearly visible from the M66 and A56 approach to Lancashire. It is located at grid reference SD791236. The Halo was the fourth and final Panopticon to be constructed in Lancashire and was launched in September 2007.

The Halo is an 18m-diameter steel lattice structure supported on a tripod five metres above the ground. The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. It is lit after dark using low-energy LEDs powered by an adjacent wind turbine and glows a sky-blue colour, giving the effect of hovering above the town. It was designed by John Kennedy of LandLab.