Peirce F. Lewis once said 'Our human landscape is our unwritten autobiography, reflecting our tastes, our values, our aspirations, and even our fears, in tangible, visible form.'

 

By farming the land a farmer is the author and creator of the landscape. 
 

Most of these landscapes do not include people, incidents or activity. Instead I favoured illustrating the potent presence of missing actions and events. People can be present even in their physical absence, their subtle visible traces can be seen in the planting of wind breaks, construction of fences, tractor impressions, a gate left open, the tyre marks on a road, a telegraph pole or in the sewn crops.

 

The infrastructure of roads and railways links culture and nature.

 

While urbanites understand landscape from an aesthetic view, country dwellers regard landscape as an enterprise and responsibility.

From the city or country our way of seeing landscape changes, depending where we live.

 

I have added some recent seaside images in contrast to the country.