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It was a lovely morning in Essex, cold and frosty with the promise of some sun and I actually motivated myself to go for a walk, just two miles around local fields.
The first thing to catch my eye as I walked through our village was this stile through a gap in the hedge. Luckily that was not my route, I'm not very good with stiles these days.
A few yards further on I found this frosty bolt on a metal gate and switched my 12-50mm to macro mode.
Eventually I came to a stile that I did have to use and rather liked the warm-toned winter sunshine lighting it, in contrast to the cool shadows across the valley beyond. I'm glad I didn't have an audience whilst crossing that stile - I had less trouble climbing the In Pinn on Skye 30 years ago!
I live amongst pleasantly rural scenery rather than spectacular wilderness and landscape photography often means trying to make something out of nothing. An example is this frozen puddle on a usually muddy track, which I used as foreground interest to the stunted line of trees in the middle distance.
Further along the track I stopped to snap this teasle which had a rather attractive shape.
As I climbed out of the valley back towards home I was attracted to this slightly misty scene of farm buildings framed by trees.
Looking back I could see the next village, above the valley along which I had just walked. I reflected quietly for a few minutes upon a really enjoyable short walk that had been well worth the effort and resolved that I really must do this more often!
The first thing to catch my eye as I walked through our village was this stile through a gap in the hedge. Luckily that was not my route, I'm not very good with stiles these days.
A few yards further on I found this frosty bolt on a metal gate and switched my 12-50mm to macro mode.
Eventually I came to a stile that I did have to use and rather liked the warm-toned winter sunshine lighting it, in contrast to the cool shadows across the valley beyond. I'm glad I didn't have an audience whilst crossing that stile - I had less trouble climbing the In Pinn on Skye 30 years ago!
I live amongst pleasantly rural scenery rather than spectacular wilderness and landscape photography often means trying to make something out of nothing. An example is this frozen puddle on a usually muddy track, which I used as foreground interest to the stunted line of trees in the middle distance.
Further along the track I stopped to snap this teasle which had a rather attractive shape.
As I climbed out of the valley back towards home I was attracted to this slightly misty scene of farm buildings framed by trees.
Looking back I could see the next village, above the valley along which I had just walked. I reflected quietly for a few minutes upon a really enjoyable short walk that had been well worth the effort and resolved that I really must do this more often!
I must get up to the Broads while it's still wintry...I keep telling myself that...but a warm house is much more attractive than a freezing cold marsh or quayside.......
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