I was asked on this blog this week if I lived in a rural area.
These photos were taken during my walk this morning. The pictures are as they came out of the phone, although some filters were applied to the last three when shooting:
Ely Cathedral is about three miles away in that photo. The Rive Cam was to my left when taking the picture. The sunflowers are beloved of goldfinches, for whom it seems they are grown.
We have big skies:
I liked that plough:
In fact, I tried it in black and white as well, and might prefer it:
I think we're pretty rural around here.
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Good carrot crunching country………..
Beautiful photos.
Thanks
I could have spent a long time photographing that plough
There was something fascinating about it
Agreed old chap, there is texture (detail within form) everywhere in that photo – your inner eye was drawn to it. I’d darken it, like Don McCullin would.
I wondered whether to do so – even when shooting – and lightened it instead. The shadows were too deep.
An old name for a goldfinch is thistlewarp (they love to hang on and bend ripe thistles). Your site is superb! Duncan Watters
You remind me of my childhood in the ‘black fens’ (Ramsey, Benwick) – whose story holds some lessons in economics I think. Marsh and mere until Capital came along, drained them and ‘enclosed’ the resulting rich farmland for the investors, turning the fishers and fowlers, the ‘fen tigers’ that had previously got their livelihoods there into landless labourers. But the more they drained, the more the peat shrank, and blew away, and the less productive it is gradually becoming – while the shrinkage also means the higher they have to pump the water to the sea. Less productivity, higher costs. As from an exhausted mine, Capital will move on, I guess, dooming the farming communities – and the landscape?
Ramsey is deep fen, and I recognise your story