Green after rain

Two days of rain and then this: a green so loud it looks fake. I didn't touch the saturation, promise.

Evening in the beech wood

A hot day, so we waited until the evening and drove out to the old beech wood. The road through it is so quiet that I got the camera down at tarmac level and …

Fern season

For about two weeks in June the bracken is new, soft and impossibly green, before it turns into the tough stuff that grabs your ankles for the rest of the year.