All the photos presented in the Gallery page of this web site have been taken with my Canon EOS 6D Mark II camera and a Canon EF 24-105mm f4L IS II USM lens. I have been using Canon cameras for many years. I have had this one since 2019, after my previous EOS 60D unfortunately died from getting too wet on a rainy day along the Dales Way!
I have made some minor corrections (e.g. cropping, brightness/contrast adjustments) to some of the photos using the excellent Paint.NET image editing software, but most of the photos are straight out of the camera.
This web site has been developed using the Microsoft ASP.NET framework and a Microsoft SQL Server database.
The implementation of the Gallery page is based on the HesGallery component by Artur Mędrygał.
The site is hosted by IONOS.
Most often, I go walking in the Yorkshire Dales, the South Pennines or the Vale of York, areas of great beauty that are not too far from my home, which is in Guiseley, West Yorkshire.
I very much liked the walking routes that used to be published under the "Walking with Wilkinson" title in the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper, and I have done many of those over the years. Unfortunately, they have ceased to appear in the columns of that newspaper, but compilations in book format can still be obtained from various online retailers.
The route cards available from the Country Walking magazine are a good source of walking itineraries, and I have done quite a few of the ones that are in Yorkshire. They can be found online at www.walk1000miles.co.uk and on the Ordnance Survey Maps web site.
There are also some good walking routes on the web site of the Ramblers' Association, of which I am a member.
From time to time, I go for a long distance walk. To date, I have completed the Dales Way in 2018, the Coast to Coast Walk in 2019, the Lady Anne's Way in 2021, the Offa's Dyke Path in 2022, and a section of the Pennine Way in 2023. You will find a selection of photos from those walks in the Gallery page (not of the Dales Way, though, due to the aforementioned camera problem!).
Such long distance walks take time (it took me 16 days to do the 190-mile Coast to Coast Walk, and the same number for the 177-mile Offa's Dyke Path), and also some planning and organisation. On these walks, the excellent guidebooks published by Skyware Press and Cicerone Press were very useful to me.
When walking for a week or two, I do not feel capable of carrying all my gear in a backpack and camping in the wild. So I have used companies that provide accommodation booking and baggage transfer services. I would thoroughly recommend Brigantes Walking Holidays, who enabled me to do my Dales Way, Coast to Coast, Lady Anne's Way and Pennine Way walks in the best conditions. My Offa's Dyke Path walk was similarly organised by Contour Holidays, who also delivered a top-class service.