Dog Hill, Driffield

Dog Hill

Wednesday 14th January 2015

Returning late afternoon to Driffield via Spellowgate, I could not resist a photograph of this clump of trees on a high point just north west of Driffield. I normally associate trees in a group like this as covering some ancient burial site. With that in mind I wanted a fairly low shot, straight into the sun (I love Contre Jour photography), exposing for the sky just above the trees, to give me the silhouette effect that would suggest 'they' were still there and living on through the trees! A freezing cold day, the ice crystals in the sky gave a slight halo to the sun at the outer edges of the photograph. Alas, when I got home and checked the OS map for the name of the burial mound, none listed, all I found was 'Dog Hill', not the association with the past I was looking for.