Best Woodland UK location? Dark Hedges of Derby

[@neilcole3406]

Wow what a place, l was just thinking Gary, if you could have mist and maybe a Robin on the mossy rock!! 😂

[@zaf9834]

I went there yesterday and met a few dog walkers enjoying a chat with them.

[@dirkkersting1522]

Fabulous shots of an amazing landscape, but the portraits of the dogs and their owners... I love 'em. Wonderful! I think the owners will have the most beautiful shots of their beloved pets now.

[@markjutsum6187]

Great to see you “ super excited” and sharing some tips. Gardening, hand held filter use. Even a decent snap thrown in 😂MJ

[@GaryGough]

Nothing beats a bit of gardening :) I wish to be identitified as Gary Titchmarch from here on in 😁😁

[@scdronemedia]

Excellent, as ever, Gary. Beautiful images and I especially like the low down image with the stone in the foreground. Great spot and beautiful capture.

[@gryphongryph]

The pictures of the dogs were fantastic, the others were no bad either 😜

[@Dombennezon]

Worked out really nicely. I would’ve seen the barbed wire on the top of the wall and given up and walked on. That’s the takeaway lesson for me. Thanks Gary 👍

[@randyschwager2515]

Your woodland images were beautiful…but the dog photos stole my heart! Thanks for taking me along!

[@daviddaw999]

As someone who has been the owner of three Weimaraners, I particularly enjoyed your shots of the Grey Ghost and its human.

[@Trish12303]

I love the image of the first gentleman and his dog looking at each other. That’s awesome!! That’s a beautiful place to shoot. I enjoyed seeing it! 🙂

[@mitymous1]

What lucky dog walkers to get such fantastic portraits of them and their dogs! Such a gorgeous location and wonderful images.

[@vincentspratling365]

Hi Gary. Fabulous shots. She is a beautiful Weimaraner, I had a male Weimaraner and he nearly made it to 12 years old and I still miss him

[@nsg6225]

You sound like a child in a sweet shop there!! Lovely images you got.

[@andyjsmith1981]

Brilliant that Gary! Not a massive woodland shooter but would defo like to visit that location! To all those thinking of becoming a member all I would say is throw that money down, absolutely invaluable tuition at an amazing price. Critique is brutal, honest but aimed to make you improve! I've learned so much from membership and love the comps, best money I've spent on improving my photography without doubt. 👍🏻

[@viviennenoble4035]

What lovely photos of dogs and owners, and of course the woodland photos are gorgeous.

[@susanfirth2279]

What a fabulous location. I love stone walls and those trees...wow. Great images. Nice images of the dogs and owners as well.

[@janandjim4442]

What a lovely place for just walk but fantastic for pictures!

[@jaynepainter9743]

Beautiful photos love the photos of Lily and Lexi in particular

[@paulcooper9187]

Mr G, I am fortunate enough to live fairly close to that location, and it totally pops when the fog is in during the autumn. Fantastic overview of the place, and I love the low wall shot at the north end. Keep them coming, they are always interesting.

[@johnastbury4116]

I loved EVERY image. You are a perfectionist and it pays off. Thanks for the video.

[@DavesRvRepair]

Lovely shots of the colorful autumn color and the beautiful woodland scenery. Congratulations on taking advantage of an opportunity to get some charming shots of the dogs and their and owners.

[@andy_simmo]

Final image was a belter Gary

[@harveyhodgson7990]

Absolutely brilliant photos, love the ones of the dogs 👍📷

[@wednesdaythroughthelens830]

19.35+ and images that deal with the awkward trees I.e. leave them out. Thanks for your consistent advice. Really appreciated.

[@GaryGough]

Thank you x

[@johneast7987]

I'm a Buxtonion and I thought I recognised it, not been for about 40 years but I used to take part in a motorcycle trial there in Boxing Day. been in Somerset for 34 years but don't miss the weather! Thank you Gary

[@tmeeten3195]

An absolutely stunning place and your images show it off perfectly. Love the doggie application too 😊

[@Naturelife9399]

Hello, Gary Gough, your every picture's awesome, I like this all picture's💙💙👍👍 from Norway

[@alonzohollingsworth7712]

One of your best shots I really enjoyed watching. Hated to see the video end. Awesome video Gary, thank you so much.

[@GaryGough]

Very kind, cheers 👍👍

[@BikerBloke600]

Hi Gary, you should visit Roe Valley Country Park in Limavady, Northern Ireland, such a beautiful place to photograph. Mike 👌🍻

[@nigelbramley4188]

Nice to see you coming to my neck of the woods.

[@LeeMansfield]

Brilliant Gary - should be on prime time TV mate

[@martinsarre]

Brilliant set of images and video. Nice touch taking photos of dogs with their owners, what a nice person you are!

[@photosbyjosef]

Current love the video. Love your old format and this format whatever you do is always great

[@photojames]

Another brilliant video, and loved the dog photos 👍

[@darrenleigh201]

Truly wonderful images! Thanks for sharing👍🏻

[@terrymartin4489]

Gary, thanks for taking the time to share with us. It is greatly appreciated and I always learn little things that help me in my journey.

[@GrahamMarkham]

Beautiful images Gary, & well done for showing us photographers are not grumpy people... Love the images of the dogs & walkers etc.......

[@RiccardoPareschi]

I still haven’t been able to decide if I love your technical skills in photography or the enthusiasm and joy you bring to photography. Maybe both. Thanks Gary !

[@royconnolly2767]

Hi Riccardo I think we are on thr same page 😄

[@jpdeardenphotography]

Stunning located photos and the pics of the dogs where great 👍

[@stevebauer8218]

I like your “landscaping”. ;)

[@bofblog]

Great video so many compositions in the places like that

[@SteveZodiac777]

Great work Gary - gorgeous colours. Really liked the people & dog portraits as well!

[@Stephen-rv2dy]

Love the pictures . Love watching your videos 🔵👍

[@Seemples]

Loved the last image, great work!

[@paulbell9957]

Beautiful images Gary, from a stunning looking location 🙂

[@deborahcorreale352]

What a beautiful location. Love seeing it at the different perspectives and hearing your thoughts on what you are doing and why. I absolutely love the photo of Lexi, you made her look so soleful and the one of Keith and Lexi looking at each other was great too.

[@Cowley46]

Loved every minute of that.

[@johnearl2303]

Another great video with some fantastic photos

[@steffore1]

Fabulous shots & info Gary 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@NorbreckAquatics]

Great shots as always Gary

[@darranmilne9944]

Great video Gary, the picture's of the dogs you captured were amazing.

[@treed3476]

I like the way you show us the in camera and your thought process on getting the best pictures. How you move around in the first part. It looks good here but, lets move around and make it better. I know i need to slow down and move around more. Thanks for the great video.

[@suewilsher9743]

Fabulous video, plenty of excellent information to take on board. And what beautiful pictures of the dogs I bet the owners will be delighted with them.

[@craigmaisfield3247]

Brilliant Gary. This location it very close to me.

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

Great location and photos 👌🙂

[@timrosenburgh8597]

Another great video Gary. What a cracking woodland and no wonder you spent so long in there. The photo's that you took of the people with there dogs were brilliant and i bet they would have been chuffed to bits with them. Great image's as usual Gary. Look forward to the next one.

[@bri7530]

superb images Gary 📸👌

[@patrickstebbings4748]

Hi Gary what a amazing place i was there thursday had to work for the images you video tells the story of this place very well - what a place to create and capture best wishes pat

[@stevew3012]

Another brilliant set of images from a stunning location Gary 👍 I've passed within a few metres of this location on many occasions, but I only realised it was there quite recently when I started to see many images of it online. You can bet your last pound that it's somewhere I will be visiting in the future, and having watched your video I won't be leaving it for too long before I go. Keep up the great work, always an enjoyable watch 👍

[@Ichigoo82]

I love all of the videos! 🙂

[@mickeystine3100]

wonderful shots👍👍👍

[@malcolmbrunt4139]

Very nice 👌

[@oscararrieta326]

Thanks !!!

[@andrewharrison2814]

Brilliant video Gary

[@phil.eastwood]

I was there on Saturday morning , forecast said fog and we had a bit of frost....arrived and neither were present...its still a great place to go during any time of the year, sad that the barbed wire fence has gone up at the Southern end....

[@scotty4418]

Lovely images Gary and good to see some in field cloning by adding your own leaves to the composition. Different from doing it in post 🙂

[@gyugyu1yt]

Dear Gary (if I may, I guess I'm the older), I have been watching your channel for about three years now. Although I have not commented yet, I enjoyed all your work and learned a lot from them. This video, however, was so beautiful and emotional that I've decided to congratulate you and thank for this experience. The woodland photos are marvelous, and your pics of the elderly owners and their dogs are moving. Unfortunately I cannot afford to be a member of your channel, however I keep on following you from far away Hungary. Best regards, György

[@GaryGough]

I wasn’t begging for members just pointing out the fact I have a members area. I love you being right here. Thank you for your continued support. That’s all I ever wanted 👍👍

[@gyugyu1yt]

Thanks for your kind reply. I keep on watching!

[@MaliDaviesPhotography]

A photographers vlog, deeper thought and building up the images from start to finish. Although we are friends, I bloody love watching your videos mate! Never been here, could this be my fist honey place to shoot. 👍

[@MaliDaviesPhotography]

Oh when are you gonna give me that 100-400 😂gorgeous lens, enjoy ooops Is it the 70-200 f2.8 😮wow

[@Kevin-k7m1t]

Nice images, everyone thinks woodland photography is hard but it is not. For me I look for subjects and then use the woodland as the backdrop.

[@johnpunnett1426]

Hi Gary, nice line of trees & path but not sure I would rate as greatest woodland in England or UK...? Thats a big accolade indeed...

[@randymelton6096]

As always sir a wonderful video and fabulous images. I suppose showing images of places such as this is a double edged sword. Wonderful that the rest of us get to see places we've never been but terrible in the fact that not long after a "new" place is shown it becomes overdone to death. I see this so often with other professional photographers I follow. They show their best shots from a place they just came back from and within a year or two the place has been over shot and you see images of it everywhere. I suppose our challenge as professional photographers is to try and find a better composition of the over done places and shoot it in a way that hasn't been done yet. I admire your work very much and try as best I can to do what you do. Sometimes with pretty good success, other times not so much. Unfortunately I don't have the grand places you visit in my backyard like you do so I have to make the best of where I go. One last parting comment, I must say I was shocked to see you shooting with a Nikon Z8 rather than the Canon you usually shoot with. :)

[@shaneviggers8795]

There was a light covering of snow on thursday

[@julieboyle170]

What a magical woodland. AND those dogs - how special were they? I was so glad you turned around and viewed the path from the other direction. I much preferred that with the wall on the right side. From Australia it is a long way to go to attend one of your workshops but if I am lucky to win the lottery soon I would definitely be there. Thank you for sharing.

[@adamhewitt8763]

Great video Gary, I thought you were a canon fan boy?

[@alanlong1971]

I know that place driven by many times without my camera must go take a look, love the fact as a professional photographer you photo people and send them the pic's for free, some cracking photos of the lads with their dogs the other pictures were great to. Noticed you removed the fence in some of the shots and made a great job I always struggle with this in Photoshop/Lightroom , great vlog Gary.

[@oliwoodtv]

could you please tell me where in Derbyshire this is please

[@alanlong1971]

Up above Matlock town heading to Chesterfield think its called High Moor. as you get to the top of high moor take a left turn and look for a gate with a few parking spaces. It's about 100meters down. Hope this helped

[@oliwoodtv]

@@alanlong1971 thanks for the reply i been wondering where this place was for a while im looking forward to visiting it soon thanks again

[@alanlong1971]

Just had a look on google, Wirestone Lane above Matlock

[@hjones451]

The image where you organized the autumnal leaves was 'good' - The rest were breathtaking! Not been there for years, reminded me of a location up at Kielder. Trees are always my favourite subject - The Lime tree avenue at Clumber Park, The Wellingtonias in Wellington or the entrance to Plas Newydd on the Menai Straits - who can resist a photo? Is this THE BEST Woodland in England, guess Padley Gorge and Wistman's Wood reign for me.

[@toke7560]

Maybe even the world.

[@SteveP_2426]

I've seen some cracking shots from here in the mist Gary. It's on my list of shoots but it's a fair bit more than 2hrs drive away unfortunately.

[@dorisdoesderbyshire9353]

Hi Gary, you did a great job of the location, I live 10 mins away and drove there the other day when we had pretty heavy fog, belted down there and it was the only place in the surroundings that didn't have any fog lol, fog to the left, fog to the right, but vitrually none in that particular walk. All the best Russ

[@innercityunit2112]

Care to share?...You're now the fifth person in the comments (inc. Gary Gough), who knows where this exact location is, and not one has disclosed where. I know Gary says Derby, so I presume he means Derbyshire. Either way, that's a pretty big area...Why the secrecy?

[@dorisdoesderbyshire9353]

@@innercityunit2112There is no secret as to it's location, i've told many people on my FB photography page where it is exactly, and where to park etc..

[@innercityunit2112]

@@dorisdoesderbyshire9353 Ah, thanks, that's much clearer. A nice chap in the comments has informed me where the location is.

[@royconnolly2767]

hi Gary you said its not good practice for the viewer to end up in the centre well I think it can and does work creating a sense of stillness and calm, I'm not a fan of obvious leading lines creating movement as once you eye has made this move what then, whereby placing together a solid simple overall composition has much more longevity

[@GaryGough]

It’s definitely not good practice, but that doesn’t mean placing the subject in centre won’t work all the time. Plus, if it works for you then that’s fine 👍👍

[@royconnolly2767]

Hi Gary do you ever place a woodland pathway in the centre left to right but just below the centre up and down I think this works well

[@dieseldavey]

Lovely images 👍🏻 so when are you handing the Nikon back?

[@Luigi13]

Mr. Gary Gough one question for you: are you now using only Nikon camera and lenses or do you still use the Canon platform? I saw a previous video and this one showing a Nikon platform as well. Cheers.

[@599miata]

👌👌

[@laurencedonkin9248]

looks like you'll be too late to take the Irish dark hedge as they are cutting some down. A fabulous walk and pictures tell a wonderful tale of woodland in autumn. question, how do your photos compare using the Nikon z series to your cannon?

[@daztyrestyrestyres]

am confused check your list of kit used to make the video but can’t see anywhere you list a nikon camera

[@mikeswain9085]

Great video as usual Gary, unfortunately over the last four or five years, this venue has increased dramatically in its popularity. Only a few local photographers and dog walkers knew about it but now it's been so overshot with photographers coming from all over the UK. I commend the first photo of Lexie, something quite different. Still pleased to see photographers 'doing their bit' though and leaving the place as they found it.

[@coopercap]

I am not far away from there but have never heard of the place. Are you keeping it a secret?

[@billlodge6070]

Excellent video as always Gary, where abouts in Derbyshire is this location as I live close by or cant you say?

[@johnmillar24121973]

I've not been to this location myself, but believe it is at Darwin Forest just north of Matlock

[@billlodge6070]

@@johnmillar24121973 Thanks very much for this info John I'm near Mansfield, so I'll give it a try.

[@stevebarnett5048]

Turn off the B5057 at a crossroads near Darwin Forest and go down Wirestone Lane about 1/4 mile to a forestry entrance and park up. There is a forestry sign saying 'Upper Moor'. Walk down the track into the woods about 100 yards and it's directly to your right where the paths cross.

[@billlodge6070]

Thanks for this info Steve it is much appreciated. Have a great Christmas.

[@stevebarnett5048]

If you can forget the colours of Autumn hype (given it's now gone) it's a pint pot piece of woodland where you can concentrate on the structures of the landscape especially imo in B&W. When you get there it's an intimate landscape but very much worth a visit and one to put in the book if passing through the area in good light.

[@wellwhatthen10101]

Looks a great place for photography. Nikon?????

[@stevepuddifoot8117]

I've been to this location 3 times now, must admit I'm quite surprised you didn't shoot any the other way. Personally I much prefer it with the wall on the right and woods to the left. Plus they've now added that damned new fence and posts all sticky up over the wall which kind of spoils it now down that end. The other end is much better in my view.

[@GaryGough]

Hi Steve, half the images shown are the other way around. You’re right, it’s much better 👍👍

[@stevepuddifoot8117]

Haha, I didn't watch right to the very end! I've just seen them now! 😂 As for best woodland in the UK - it's very nice yes, but have you been to Padley Gorge, that is a dream if you can get some mist or fog, I've never been lucky to get much and been there 5 times now!

[@falcondoom9602]

Как называются эти красивые гнутые деревья в видео у забора слева?

[@laurencedonkin9248]

I think your woodland walk was the picture on BBC News weather 10:20pm 3/12/23

[@andy1753]

👍👍👍

[@permghattaura7101]

Hi could someone share the location please Thanks

[@Ruscombephotos]

A line of beech trees is a b eautiful thing for sure, which is one of the reasons why the Dark Hedges in County Antrim, Northern Ireland has become such an iconic location, with its avenue of beech trees on both sides. Beech trees do retain a lot of their leaves for a large part of winter in marcescence, American beeches more so than European. They look great in snow with the orange/amber hues. I can’t believe the landowner has put that ugly barbed wire fence on top of the dry stone wall. There were a couple of photographs where it wasn’t there. Maybe there were some gaps on the wall, or perhaps you cloned them out. For me, they spoiled the images they were in. There was an early photograph in the video, where there was one beech branch much lower than the others, about a third of the frame in, that was a bit of a barrier to my eye travelling through the rest of the photograph. The colour pallet was wonderful, with the green moss contrasted against the orange/rusty leaves. Some of the dog images (the very first) and the dog and hooman friend looking at each other were wonderful. There were a few frames where you also showed the almost zigzag edge of the leaves on the path I really liked too. I’m glad you made some photographs looking the other way with the beech trees and wall on the right. I think they worked the best. Take what I say with a pinch of salt. I’m not a professional and it’s all subjective. All the best!

[@composedlight6850]

The fence with the silver/blue wire on top of the wall does not look great; but the Beach trees are very nice. I note you cloned the wire and posts out.:)

[@petersmitham8273]

It’s a shame the landowner felt the need to put up a barbed wire fence to keep people out and stop them climbing the wall….😢

[@innercityunit2112]

Ok, great, thanks...Gary Gough, Paul Cooper and Patrick Stebbings, all know where this location is, yet none choose to share...seemingly, a privy place... Just saying. Nice photographs and I particularly liked the dog portraits.

[@johnmillar24121973]

I've not been to this location, but believe it is called Darwin Forest, which is just north of Matlock, Derbyshire.

[@innercityunit2112]

@@johnmillar24121973 Thanks for the reply John, much appreciated. Actually, I don't live too far away from Matlock (a Nottingham lad), so I will check it out/do a little research, with a view to possibly visit and photograph at some point in the future...Cheers mate.

[@johnmillar24121973]

​@@innercityunit2112no worries, glad to help 👍

[@DennisBater]

your mannerisms remind me so much of the energy of Gordon Ramsey without the F-bombs!

[@ticticboom1]

Location, location, location? Pretty please.