Dusk over the Fens, Lincolnshire

The Fens is an area of low-lying, flat land in eastern England. The soils are very fertile and consequently it is not heavily populated but is intensively farmed. The landscape has a character of its own with level expanses punctuated by church towers and spires, sparse trees and more recent intrusions such as electricity pylons and wind turbines. The Fens also have big skies. Clouds assume the significance of mountains in the Fens and the hours of sunrise and sunset are especially noteworthy, as is dusk, the time of day shown in the photograph above.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100     2017

View from Hull Pier

When, many years ago, I lived in the city of Hull, the pier was a busy place from where a ferry made regular journeys to and fro across the River Humber, between the waterfront and New Holland in Lincolnshire. The opening of the Humber Bridge in 1981 put an end to the ferry and made the pier more of an interesting destination for people than a vital transport location. It has remained so all these years. I have always enjoyed my photographic visits to the pier for the estuarial light, the buildings old and new, and the passing river traffic. This shot was taken on a winter afternoon when the light had begun to make silhouettes out of the wooden pier, the futuristic aquarium (The Deep) and the wind turbine components at the dock being loaded on to a vessel to take them into the North Sea.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10     2017

Changes to this blog

This blog usually updates on alternate days. It automatically selects and posts the blog written for that particular date. I write the posts up to three weeks ahead, in blocks, and leave automation to do the rest. However, the coronavirus restrictions now disrupt my planning and I am running out of posts. I have to restrict where I go, and how frequently, and consequently I have not taken as many photographs as usual. So, what I plan to do is search through my catalogue of photographs from the past twenty or so years - from the time I changed to digital photography - and post those alongside any recent shots I manage to get. Here is the first one from the archives. If you are interested when such shots were taken I'll be putting the date at the end of the post near the camera details.

The photograph shows a wind farm in the North Sea off Skegness, Lincolnshire. We visited, I recall, on a particularly calm, bright day as a sea mist was starting to clear. The blades were not turning and one unco-operative turbine was not even facing the right way. Perhaps the small maintenance boat was there to sort out the problem. I took a few other shots that day with dog walkers giving foreground interest. I liked this composition because its symmetry was broken by the gulls that were gently rising and falling as the waves rolled in.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon D5300