About Bradley Baht 'at
2014 will see the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire for the first time and the County is eagerly anticipating a thrilling spectacle and will ‘pull out all the stops’ to ensure visitors will be given a ‘reight good Yorkshire welcome’.
The impression depicts Sir Bradley Wiggins against the backdrop of the Cow and Calf on Ilkley Moor, fittingly not wearing a hat! (for those unfamiliar with the song; ‘On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at.’ Baht, in Yorkshire dialect, means without!)
The wheels of the Penny Farthing bicycle symbolically contain the White Rose of Yorkshire inset, on a country road with cats’ eyes, which were invented in Yorkshire by Percy Shaw. It is confidently predicted that even in a Yorkshire Summer, nobody will catch their ‘death of cold,’ on Ilkla Moor!
The composition is a collage of over 4,000 modern British used postage stamps.
To illustrate the range of optical effects the collage was photographed under the following conditions for the slideshow sequence:
UV light + tungsten light (100% full power)
UV light + tungsten light (75% full power)
UV light + tungsten light (40% full power)
UV light only