Wednesday 19^th June 2019

The weather at last had sorted itself out with sunshine on the cards; brilliant for plain photographs, but next to useless for RTI, but never the less we persevered.

Splitting our time between Holy Trinity Skipton and Conistone churchyards we made a happy caravan of taphophiles. The sun just about remained behind the clouds for several tricky RTI’s, eventually setting aside the infamous table top RTI and finishing at a reasonable time, once the sun had made itself well known.

The challenge of doing RTI on a sunny with cloud interval day and the different angles and conditions of each grave certainly challenged us all. Interestingly it took four of us to do one grave, one taking the pictures, one holding the flash, one holding the string and one holding the coat. The coat was very key to blocking the sun, but also provided a rather strange line up for passers-by.

Owing to the fact that we left behind the very useful if slightly Heath Robinson garden cane to hold the string, we even had to fashion a string hold stick out of a handy branch with only minor puncture wounds.

A Happy Taphophile!     (c) Alan Williams

A picture says a thousand words and obviously we worked very hard and didn’t do any dancing or eating of chocolate cake....

Jennifer Stearn