As part of the requirements of lockdown I have not driven anywhere to take photographs. My photography would not necessarily be deemed an essential journey and I did not want to travel far, have an accident and burden the overrun NHS. Increased local exploration led me to this barn. I have long known of its presence but a run past in the late afternoon showed me how good it was looking at the moment. Late spring, crops coming through in different shades, a neatly trimmed hedge, the glory of the rusty barn.

I first shot it in evening at last light - in this case just before 8pm. Long raking shadows, tramlines leading you through the image, with the late light giving rich, saturated colours.

Beautiful evening light, plenty of leading lines.

I then got up for a dawn shoot the following morning so less than 12 hrs later the light was at its opposite effect. At 06.15 a gentle mist rose from the fields and absorbed the colours rendering the scene in lovely muted pastel tones.

At dawn the light is waking up the scene.

I stayed a while, taking shots as the sun rose so this last image is from 07.20 and sees the colours emerging more. It is rare that getting up early is not worth it - either from images or just the feel-good factor of being out at dawn. Something I have repeated a number of times - including three times over the last week in search of a particular shot. As I will describe in a subsequent next blog.

An hour after sunrise the light and shadow adds definition to the rolling landscape.