During spring the woodlands and fields and pastures of the Cotswolds are very bright and green… if it isn’t raining. Of course, it is the rain produces all of that green. We had our share of sunny days, but we also experienced the rain — generally light and transitory, but a bit more substantial on the final day of our weeklong walk. This scene was midway through the walk, where the path crossed green hill, the trees opened up a bit, and the sun shone in.
Photographing the Cotswolds was an interesting challenge, and I don’t think I really started to get my mind around this landscape until closer to the end of our walk. Being a “Sierra Nevada guy” and someone who photographs the California coast and deserts, I’m used to big, dramatic landscapes, even if I tend to focus on more intimate aspects of these places. There are few of those sorts of scenes here. The highest “peaks” are barely above 1000′, and rugged, rocky terrain is rare.
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