The Winking Man


Posted by Peter Ireland on Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:54 am

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Overlooking his domain from Ramshaw Rocks

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The Winking Man is a rock formation about 10ft in height that overlooks the Leek to Buxton road, it resembles a man's face due to the fact that it looks like a mans head with a forehead, nose, mouth and chin. A traveller in the past and even today as he travels along the A53 which is built upon a Roman road would have been aware of the face, and as they would have passed, so would their viewing angle have changed which would have resulted in the eye appearing to wink!

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by david fletcher on Sun Jan 29, 2023 12:07 pm
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Aptly named Rock. Lovely sighting and framing to give us his viewpoint, as he looks over his domain, Peter.
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by Carol Clarke on Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:01 pm
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That's some chin he's got Peter! - do you remember Desperate Dan, the comic character who used to eat massive pies? Nicely done, and I like the strong diagonal with the view of the mist shrouded landscape in the background. A very striking image.

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by Peter Ireland on Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:09 pm
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Carol Clarke wrote: That's some chin he's got Peter! - do you remember Desperate Dan, the comic character who used to eat massive pies?  Nicely done, and I like the strong diagonal with the view of the mist shrouded landscape in the background.  A very striking image.

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Yes, I do Carol. Someone else mentioned he looked like Buzz Lightyear, I see that as well.
 

by Carol Clarke on Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:37 pm
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Peter Ireland wrote:
Carol Clarke wrote: That's some chin he's got Peter! - do you remember Desperate Dan, the comic character who used to eat massive pies?  Nicely done, and I like the strong diagonal with the view of the mist shrouded landscape in the background.  A very striking image.

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Yes, I do Carol. Someone else mentioned he looked like Buzz Lightyear, I see that as well.

Yes, I can also see that likeness.   :)

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by John Labrenz on Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:09 am
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Yes...definitely more like Buzz lightyear!
 

by Cynthia Crawford on Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:40 am
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Very cool! I hope he doesn't "lose face" like some of our iconic rocks here in the US! ;)
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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Feb 07, 2023 8:02 am
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Very "atmospheric" and a cool rock feature well captured.
 

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