Green and Pleasant Landscape Photography

Photography for me is a multi-disciplinary hobby. Less the whole point of the exercise, because I'm not a 'Photographer', more an interesting add-on to whatever else I'm doing at any given time. Which means that most of what you see on here will reflect my many other interests, however minor they might be.

I’m now of an age where a regular walk is not just a pleasant diversion, but pretty essential to keep from regressing to a couch potato. Not that I have a problem with Couches, or indeed Potatoes, but neither provide the physical workout I need to keep joints and muscles taught and lubricated for when I truly need them, whenever that might be...

A walk, as many of you will know, provides great opportunities for photography. The Countryside and it's near neighbour the Urban Landscape are literally littered with visually interesting subjects, the trick I find is to not walk around with you eyes closed, particularly in cities. The old adage of 'Look Up' is also useful to remember in the towns and cities, many of which have been utterly ruined at street level over the years but retain much of their historic interest from the first floor upwards.

There's no such problem at eye-level in the rural environment, in fact it's often where all the interest is, and everyone loves a good Landscape don't they!...

These photos were all taken with the Balda Baldessa 1a whilst the FED was still away for repair, loaded with Kodacolor 100 in anticipation of the sunnier days of May.

Sheep with their Lambs, using an old Bedford truck to shelter from the midday sun near Uppingham in Rutland.

The view from the Rutland Round walking route toward Eyebrook Reservoir through clouds of Cow Parsley.

A footpath through Buttercups near Lyddington, Rutland.

The Gartree Pill Box near Market Harborough, against a horizon of arable fields and dramatic rain clouds.

It doesn't get more pastoral than Belted Galloways grazing in a field of Buttercups at Wistow in Leicestershire.