I went out with my camera in the worst of all weathers one morning in May. In torrential rain and a gale force wind and I struggled to keep the camera steady and the lens dry.

The farmers had begun to prepare for the summer’s crop and created a work of art on the freshly turned soil striped with plastic sheeting to protect the planting from wild birds looking for an easy feast.

A few days later, I returned, on a perfect spring morning, with a tripod and filters. But the photographs I took no longer worked. The quality of the images was perfect, but the atmosphere of the scene got lost.

So I discarded them and I’m showing my ‘real’ photographs here.