House and Stepping Stones across Linton Beck

This photo was taken as a bracketed HDR set at 4:20 pm on the 4th May 2025 and later developed with Luminar Neo.

The house is called White Abbey, and I’ve photographed this scene of the stepping stones leading to the house and garden once before – two decades ago!

Gill and I hadn’t been on a caravanning holiday at Grassington since 2015. We had holidayed there more regularly when our kids were young, so we had many past memories and wished to relive some of them.

On the first day, we visited Linton Falls where I took the House and Garden Across the River Wharf, near Linton Falls.

It was a short bank holiday break, so on the last day, we visited Grassington village. Then with an hour or so spare, we went on a mission to find the above scene knowing only that it was in one of the villages outside Grassington.

When driving into Linton, we suspected we were homing in on the location. Despite her post-stoke condition, as previously mentioned, Gill can summon up details from the past with relative ease.

And we found it!

The photo below was the original taken sometime in the mid 2000s with a Nikon CP5700 advanced compact camera, which was my second digital after the CP950 I bought in 1999.

Two decades, three cameras and improvements in the various development software applications, I think the progress, and perhaps that of me as a photographer, are quite evident.

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