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Scenes seen on a walk - 4.6.26
It was a windy, frisky day yesterday and, it wasn't a day for taking close ups of flowers, that's for sure! So instead, I went for a mix of vistas and close in views of field boundaries:)
Locations: 1 & 4 - Keynsham Meadow / 2 & 3 - Cleeve Wood (nr. Willsbridge), Gloucestershire
Walking up through the wood - 4.6.26
This wasn't the peaceful walk I was hoping for as the wind blowing through the leaves was making a fair bit of noise. There was also the issue of having to negotiate a few fallen trees across the paths. Disturbance and having to deal with obstacles…that kind of sums things up at the moment…
Location: Cleeve Wood (nr. Willsbridge), Gloucestershire, UK
Vistas seen along the Avon - 30.5.26
A walk taken on the penultimate day of the spring. A day that felt like summer should be. It was good to get out in the open and wander through the yet to be cut meadows by the Avon. Given the not so good weather forecast for this week, this was the last chance for such a walk…everything else could wait as far as we were concerned:)
Location: Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK
Shelter on a warm day
This shady part where the River Boyd empties into the Avon provided some much needed shelter from the sun on our walk yesterday:) With the subject matter being the interplay of light and shade, I decided that colour was going to be a distraction so at the editing stage, I created these black and white versions.
Locations: 1 - River Avon, 2 - River Boyd, Bitton, Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 30.05.26
Bare branches on the cusp of summer
There I was on a beautiful summer day, walking along the banks of the Avon just two days before the start of June, and I was photographing dead trees and bare branches. I do wonder about myself at times. The only tentative conclusion I can come to regarding this choice of subject matter is that this is me semi-consciously trying to resolve a few issues…
Location: Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 30.05.26
Afternoons along the River Brue
I've been looking through the images I shot on a short break on the Somerset coast a month ago (feels like a lot longer than that) with a view to processing and posting them.
Walking along here and half closing my eyes, I was definitely getting some Essex coast, creek and saltmarsh vibes:)
Location: River Brue, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, UK | Shot: 1 - 29.04.26, 2 & 3 - 30.04.26
Apex Park in glorious black and white:)
I've been looking through the images I shot on a short break on the Somerset coast a month ago (feels like a lot longer than that) with a view to processing and posting them.
These two were shot on a somewhat moody and overcast afternoon so when I was editing them, it seemed to be the right choice to render them in black and white.
Location: Apex Park, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, UK | Shot: 28.04.26
A walk on a hot day…
All of a sudden, it's hot. Really summer heatwave hot, even though we're still in May. It was one of those days where we felt we had to get up to Meadow Wood in a bid to find some temporary escape from a world that's sliding into dystopia. Despite the heat, we did find some sense of peace in the wood and the nearby meadows.
Locations: 1 & 2 - Meadow Wood, 3 & 4 - Holm Mead, Bitton, Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 24.05.26
Tree trunks in glorious black and white:)
It's May and the greens are really vivid. It can be a beautiful time of year, one full of hope and promise for the summer to come. That's if your head is in the right place and you're ignoring all of the doom and gloom that's being pushed onto us every day. I'm not entirely sure my head is in the right place if I'm being honest.
Anyway, back to the photography. The greens, beautiful though they are, were a bit of a distraction to what I was trying to convey with these images. So at the editing stage, I made the decision to create some black and white versions. Monochrome and late spring, going into summer, can work well in my humble opinion.
Location: Meadow Wood, Bitton, Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 24.05.26
An escape to the woods - 17.5.26
We wanted to get away from the madness of an increasingly dystopian world for a bit so, it was off up to the woods for a gentle stroll:)
Locations: Meadow Wood, Bitton, Gloucestershire, UK
Vistas seen on a walk - 17.5.26
Yesterday was one of those rare days when we had almost proper looking clouds and also, plenty of patches of blue sky and sunshine. It was like a day in the month of May should be…in an ideal world that is. Having seen the forecast for the next few days - grey skies and rain - we had to get out to make the most of this gift while we had the chance:)
Locations: Holm Mead / Meadow Wood (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK
A very short walk…
These were the only two photographs I managed to take while out on a briefer than normal walk yesterday. We took a gamble on the sunshine and showers weather we had yesterday in the hope that we would be spared the showers. Sometimes a gamble pays off and quite a lot of the time it doesn't. Yesterday, the gamble with the weather did NOT pay off and by the time we got a field further on from where the photograph of the tree and clouds were taken, the clouds were dropping their load of rain upon us. A heavy load of rain. A load that penetrated our trousers and soaked through to our skin. At that point, we made a tactical retreat to our favourite riverside local to dry off a bit before heading up the hill to home. You win some, you lose some and all of that…
Location: 1 - Keynsham Lock, 2 - Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 15.05.26
Fallen, bent and broken trees
I seem to be drawn to broken trees at the moment - I don't know what that says about me and it may be for the best that I don't know… Suffice to say, there's no shortage of fallen, bent and broken trees along the River Chew.
Location: River Chew, Keynsham, Somerset, UK | Shot: 09.05.26
Cattle at the watering place
It was 'fun' negotiating our way past this lot, we did it though:) As an aside, cattle have absolutely no concept of hygiene, none whatsoever…
Location: River Chew, Keynsham, Somerset, UK | Shot: 09.05.26
Tangled branches and dead wood
As seen on a short walk up the valley of the River Chew from Keynsham. Yes, these shots are a bit on the 'moody' side, particularly given that it's May, the month that heralds the arrival of the summer. Sorry, it's just the way I'm rolling at the moment…
Location: River Chew, Keynsham, Somerset, UK | Shot: 09.05.26
Summer beckons
It's May…the latter part of the spring. The trees are in leaf. The meadows are lush with fresh green grass and wildflowers. The sky is peppered with fluffy white clouds. You could almost feel that summer is coming. Here are some shots that celebrate this:)
Location: Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 06.05.26
A supporting framework
Here are a couple of close ups of a structure that I think is designed to pump water from one side of the Avon to the other. This is the kind of gritty shot that I used to execute when I was living back in Essex in the badlands of the Thames estuary. This is a little nod to that past. As always, rendered in glorious black and white:
Location: Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK | Shot: 06.05.26