Yorkshire Elopement Photographer — Dales, Moors and Coast
Yorkshire is England’s largest county and one of its most varied landscapes for elopement photography: the limestone pavements and waterfalls of the Yorkshire Dales, the wide purple moorland of the North Yorkshire Moors, the dramatic sea cliffs and abbey ruins of the coast between Scarborough and Whitby, and the medieval city of York with its walls and Minster. Yorkshire elopement photography can draw on any of these very different settings depending on what the couple is looking for.
Yana Skakun Photography covers Yorkshire elopements across the Dales, Moors and coast — from the waterfalls of Malham and Aysgarth in the west to the Robin Hood’s Bay cliff path in the east, including Swaledale, Wensleydale, the Howardian Hills, and the dramatic moorland plateau of the North York Moors around Roseberry Topping and Blakey Ridge. Sessions are planned around specific locations and optimal light timing.
Yorkshire Dales Elopements
The Yorkshire Dales offer the classic English upland landscape at its most beautiful: drystone walls crossing limestone fell sides, field barns in every valley, the white limestone scars of the pavements above Malham, the waterfall at Hardraw Force, the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey, and the green bowl of Littondale and Langstrothdale caught in the June evening light. Dales elopements are at their best in late spring and early autumn.
Whitby & the North Yorkshire Coast
Whitby Abbey — the ruined Benedictine monastery on the East Cliff above the town — is the most dramatically photographed ruin in England for elopement sessions, second only to Scotland’s castle ruins. The combination of Gothic ruin, North Sea sky and cliff-edge setting creates images of a specifically northern gothic romance that no other English coastal location can match. Robin Hood’s Bay cliff path at sunset is a close second.