Malham

As part of the project to create a film for a piece of specially composed music, I had the idea to visit Malham in North Yorkshire for its impressive scenery. Malham is famous for its limestone geology creating massive cliff faces and cutaways in the landscape. The concept of the film is that of history. The music was influenced by the Lindow man, a preserved body found in the peat bog of Lindow Common. This made me think about how the history of man is insignificant when compared to the history of the earth. Yet occasionally the two are linked. Malham and Gordale Scar seen in the photograph are the result of earth's history eroding and changing the landscape through the ages. Such changes are rarely witnessed by man, but the same force of water that has huge effects on the limestone has very different effects on the peat. Over thousands of years it does not erode or decay but preserves, and ultimately it is man who has the most detrimental effect on both landscapes in an insignificant time.