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Lens-Artists Challenge: Landscape revisited
Posted on November 10, 2025
This aspect is about a two-minute walk from our house (our hamlet is pretty well surrounded by fields for a least a mile in every direction).
On a bright winter’s day, what made this particular view stand out for me were the strong leading lines provided by the tractor tyre tracks in the mud. With the sun relatively low in the cloudless sky, the reflections in the puddles in the furrows also increased the definition in the scene.
“Mud, mud, (in)glorious Mud”
Posted on May 22, 2024
Brits of a certain (advanced) age may recognise the title of this post as being inspired by ‘The Hippopotamus Song’ by Flanders and Swan.
No hippos here in France, but there has been an inordinate amount of rain over the past couple of months, which has left the little chemin down the side of our house in this shockingly muddy condition. Not just a dirt road but a dirt driveway.
Muddy tracks
Posted on February 21, 2020
There are many ‘roads’ like this one around here – access tracks for agricultural equipment. You certainly wouldn’t want to try and get your shiny new roadster along here, or even your flash SUV, probably.
It has been a very wet winter here and the ground is very muddy, which accounts for the almost three-dimensional set of tractor tracks in this image.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 28 – Happy
Posted on February 21, 2017
Simple equation: Boys + Mud + Puddles = Happy
52 Weeks Photo Challenge : Week 28
Fallow Ground
Posted on June 18, 2015
Five minutes walk down the road from here is this field, which last year had a late crop of maize. This year it’s been left fallow, but this is what it looked like in January.
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