Hampshire Landscape Photography : Poppies
05th June 2011
Hampshire Landscape Photography
Poppies
Its been a busy few days over the last week, as I've been out to visit a number of poppy fields across Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire.
Living in West Dorset, it was a good 1 1/2 hour trip up to Salisbury Plain, on the lookout and searching for poppy fields. It took about 4 hours to locate this one, by which time I was ready to give up for the day and try again another time. My 'spotter' saw these through the hedge of the road and we dived into an industrial complex and found the field lying just behind the units. The 7-8 hours spent finding this field made it all the more worthwhile.
This was the first reasonable field I came across, with a good carpet of poppies showing and in good condition having recently flowered. The lighting was quite good too with a few clouds in the sky and the sun behind some high level cloud, offering diffused lighting across the field.
More to follow on the three counties poppy hunt...
Poppies
Its been a busy few days over the last week, as I've been out to visit a number of poppy fields across Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire.
Living in West Dorset, it was a good 1 1/2 hour trip up to Salisbury Plain, on the lookout and searching for poppy fields. It took about 4 hours to locate this one, by which time I was ready to give up for the day and try again another time. My 'spotter' saw these through the hedge of the road and we dived into an industrial complex and found the field lying just behind the units. The 7-8 hours spent finding this field made it all the more worthwhile.
This was the first reasonable field I came across, with a good carpet of poppies showing and in good condition having recently flowered. The lighting was quite good too with a few clouds in the sky and the sun behind some high level cloud, offering diffused lighting across the field.
More to follow on the three counties poppy hunt...