As you can see from my portfolio, I really enjoy landscape photography and have taken off on dedicated trips in the past to Iceland and The Highlands amongst other places (and am due for another one soon when I’ve decided on the location. Any suggestions?). It dawned on me that I haven’t really discovered what’s on offer locally during my time in Leicestershire. I then remembered a stunning rapeseed field I’d passed while cycling towards Northamptonshire, so headed off one afternoon to explore.

You can see a couple of the results in this post and the rest here. I found less than half a dozen poppies amongst the rapeseed and love the vivid contrast of colours. On the driveway to a local farm, they’d planted a row of trees that looked great against the yellow background. Unfortunately, I had to shoot the trees from the road as I couldn’t get high enough to get the rapeseed fields either side of the trees in full. The local farmer told me that he’d got the very shot I wanted whilst standing on his Defender along a rough track, so I now know what to do! I got chatting with the farmer, who was an underwater photography enthusiast, and he’s kindly invited me back to the farm for the harvesting season, which can be quite dramatic with the combine harvesters in action. I’ll let you know how I get on…

For those of you interested in such things, I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark I with a 24-105mm lens and using Lee ND Grad filters for landscape work; and with minimal colour corrections in Photosphop and Lightroom.