Oil seed rape

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Much of England seems to be turning yellow this week – I’ve seen several blips of oil seed rape fields already, and I thought I’d better get mine in early too, before you’re all sick of the sight of the stuff.

This road runs down to the village of Luddington in Warwickshire; I caught sight of the field and barns (one of which is up for sale as a holiday let) from the main Stratford to Bidford road yesterday evening, and went back this afternoon with the camera. It was a beautiful, bright spring day – but very windy, and surprisingly cold. The light was pretty strong, so I used a polarizing filter to bring out the colours; I especially like the fact that you can see the hedgerow greening up with young growth here.

There are a couple more shots from the sequence here. By the way, is it just me, or is this crop especially early this year? I know that I’ve photographed it in mid-May in earlier years, and I don’t remember ever seeing so much of it so close to Easter before.