Tag: arable field

19 July 2004

Cultivated poppies on the Salisbury Plain near Winterbourne Abbas – another of my A303 series that belies the traffic roaring past, unseeing. Abrash is the delicate banding of colours seen in hand-made Oriental carpets, which comes from different dye batches in the wool. I think it perfectly describes…

14 June 2004

Summer evening light casting shadows on the voluptous folds of a pasture field just below Pilsdon Pen . I was lucky to find the field partly cut for hay, with a single bale providing the perfect punctuation for my image. A view from the top of Pilsdon Pen in…

1 June 2004

Far from the city, a field of germinating fodder maize calls to mind a folded striped cloth. Late evening sun and a telephoto lens accentuate the contours of a gently folded hill just up the road from my house. Although this was taken many years ago now with…

6 September 2003

Fodder maize, seen from Pilsdon Pen in late afternoon sun. I was intrigued by the texture of the rows of corn and the intensely bright specular reflections from the foliage, and the cloud shadows racing across the fields. As it was a hazy day, I used a polariser…

14 June 2003

Two

A field of ripening barley with a small drift of poppies in the middle distance. Just a small strip missed by the herbicide spray, and the poppy seeds made the most of the opportunity – they had probably been lying there for 20 years or so, waiting for…

12 May 2003

For just a week or so, this crop of barley in the fields next to my house was a glorious sight, as the shimmering awns turned from green to rose pink. Evening sun lends extra gloss and contrast. I assume the variety was not commercially successful, as I’ve…

9 July 2001