Snow Lines

This stunning photograph appeared on Facebook today:

 

I thought it was far too good not to share it on Facebook and to Tweet it on Twitter which I duly did, entitling it 'Snow Lines'.  A bit of a play on words as the image showed two snow lines - the most obvious was the meteorological snowline - the line between the snow on the mountain and the green valley below.  The other snow line is of course the railway line snaking across the Ribblehead viaduct.

No sooner had I relayed the image my iPhone started to beep almost constantly as perhaps hundreds of people either liked or shared it.  I had done the proper thing and credited it to The Yorkshireman.  I still do not know the name of the photographer but would dearly like to know.

The picture has provoked a good deal of online comment and discussion.

As first glance it gives the impression of being an aerial photograph from an aircraft or a drone but hang on - the is snow in the close-up foreground.  The sun is to the right and we are high up on or near the top of Whernside looking almost south towards Pen y Ghent - the southernmost of the Three Peaks.  Ingleborough is out of shot to the right.  We are looking at the outer curve of the Ribblehead viaduct with scaffolding around the middle piers.  The Station Inn and Ribblehead station are just below centre.  To their right is the crater of the former Ribblehead quarry.