Summer on Combs Lane

More local photography over the summer, this time on and around Combs Lane in Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire. 

Much of lane is private but there is access to footpaths including a circular walk to Robin Hood Hill. The photography subjects at this location are mainly landscapes, agricultural fields and trees, with opportunities both in the morning and evening light...although it is fair to say that I rarely make the extremes of the day during the summer...particularly the mornings!

The first stop on the walk is usually a line of trees running down the side of one of the fields. I like the shape of the trees which I believe are lime trees but it is hard to be certain from a distance. 

Included in the images below is a black and white interpretation from earlier in the summer - when the virus restriction were lifted I tried to kick-start my photographic creativity with some black and white photography, most of which I have already published in this blog:

The main crop for most of the fields in the area is corn which is still waiting to be harvested in late September. It has now grown well above head height making it a bit of a barrier for the photography. More photogenic and easier to photography was the golden barley crop which was cut and baled at the end of August:

I found the best way to capture the corn crop was to walk up the footpath leading to Combs Wood (part of the circular walk I mentioned). This gives a view across the surrounding fields and with a long lens the corn crop creates some interesting textures in the landscape:

Elsewhere, on lower ground, the corn is a barrier to some of my usual compositions as these couple of shots demonstrate. The first, in black and white, was taken in early July before the real growth spurt started and the second at the end of August when I had to hold the camera above my head to obtain the view. 

There are two trees along the lane that I enjoy photographing. One is a magnificent beech tree and the other is a sycamore standing in a nearby field. Both have featured often in this blog and photograph nicely at any time of the year:

Finally, a couple of views of the lane itself noticing a slight yellowing of the ash trees leaves and bunches of drying keys as we move from summer into autumn:

August on the Southwell Trail

These are a selection of photographs taken whilst walking the Southwell Trail during August. They feature the seasonal details that caught my eye as summer came to an end.

Some of the ferns along the trail had started to change colour as early as the first week in August and the golden yellows stood out nicely against the dark undergrowth:

There was also an autumnal look to some of the field maple and silver birch leaves as the leaf litter started to accumulate:

A number of storms during the month causing damage to some of the trees including this damson tree that had fallen across the path:

There was plenty of other fruit on display in addition to the fallen damson including, blackthorn sloes, acorns, and a mass of haws on the hawthorns:

Finally, I continued to keep my eye on the ash trees that tend to be one of the first trees along the trail to lose their leaves in autumn. I noticed that they had already started to thin in places: