Fishing The Ure At Masham
2020-02-21 Texture of Water 01
This shoot was just about the texture of water. I had been watching the river levels and capturing some images, but the level of the water and the corresponding texture shots started to match in pre visualisations. I found on this day the river was the correct level and the weather was dry enough for a few hours photographing a swollen spate river, under a cloudy sky.
About Masham
Masham – originally Maessa’s Ham – probably owed its foundation to the gentle, flood-proof rise on which it stands, near an easily fordable part of the River Ure, together with its proximity to the course of a Roman road and its position on the main route from Wensleydale to York.
The present square with its beautiful Georgian houses was created in the 18th century. The huge market place would originally have been surrounded by thatched cottages and was the site for annual Sheep Fairs with over 80,000 heads of sheep being sold some years, including animals from the flocks of nearby Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys.
