Category Archives: Rural As my faded memory recalls, pretty much every afternoon at around 3:00 pm, the clouds would build us and a series of thunder storms would roll through. The noise from the rain and thunder rendered our seismic recording an exercise in futility so we’d return to camp, and face the prospect of cooking once again.  This view is from near the top of Upham hill looking north over Aldbourne Warren in the foreground, and Liddington Warren in the mid-ground to the clump of trees marking Liddington Hill. no comments  I took this shot of tractor tracks in a field of barley looking across a valley in the Marlborough Downs of Wiltshire, England. The tight crop of the frame is from my use of a 400mm lens to capture this image. show 1 comment 
[...] and look north you’d see the sprawl that is Swindon in the lowlands before you. Yesterdays tractor tracks in a field of barley were off frame to the right, below the stand of [...]  St. Martins sits on state highway 237S, about three miles south-west of Round Top, Texas. It’s billed on a sign by the road as the ‘smallest Catholic Church in the world’. no comments  This old Texaco Station sits at the intersection of routes 178 and 303 (Ace Basin Pkwy and Green Pond Hwy) near Green Pond, South Carolina. I spotted it while driving from Charleston to Savannah one day and couldn’t resist framing a shot. Were I passing by again now, I’d probably shoot a bracket for an… show 1 comment 
Liked the one above, love the one below with the yellow removed.  Taken around 3:00pm on a late January afternoon, the trees are all devoid of leaves. The sun was still high enough in the sky to light the face of the barn and the gate without interruption from the shadows of the trees. no comments  What first struck me about this scene was the crop spraying plane that was buzzing around. I didn’t get a useable shot of the crop sprayer – it was too far away for my 75-300mm (B&H) and I loused up the exposure for the plane. However, I did like to scene of this farm with… no comments |
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by Richard Davis
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Why were you stuck with the Olympus XA in Lybia?
This was when I was in Libya in 1984-86. Shortly before I went someone from inside the Libyan embassy in London had shot and killed PC Yvonne Fletcher so relations were tense. The Libyan police and army were unpredictable at best and the advice from the Foreign office and from my employer was to avoid drawing attention to ones self. Hence the point-and-shoot.