Category: Colour Fields

Flax Fields near Maperton

Colour Field – Blue

Today I took the opportunity to check off blue in my Colour Fields project.  These fields of flax near Maperton in South Somerset are almost blue.  At least the small flower heads are blue. The days are...

Poppy Field

Colour Field – Red

Earlier in the year I started a project about different coloured fields.  I still have plenty of colours to complete but I had been looking out for poppies so I could tick off red....

Colour Field – Yellow

Fields of yellow Oilseed Rape at Sparkwood in South Somerset.  I choose this field to two reasons: the first is because the area is obviously beautiful; and second because at the time of day I...

Common Moor in Spring

Colour Field – Pale Pink

The moors either side of the main road between Wells and Glastonbury are a sea of colour this time of year.  The Cuckoo Flower (Cardamon pratensis) bloom at the same time the first Cuckoo...

Yellow Power

Colour Field – Yellow

The green countryside of Britain may be turning yellow as Oilseed rape production increases.  As someone who loves the environment the crop does have its critics: its yellow colour for one: the link between the pesticides used...

Dead nettles (Lamium purpureum) on the Somerset Levels

Colour Field – Purple

I like photography projects as they inject new ideas and new ways of looking at the environment you pass through everyday without really looking.  This year my topic is Colour Field.  Fields of colour...