Using a bike for early morning exploration of the country lanes around Bournemouth International Airport - formerly known as Hurn Airport, and before that RAF Hurn* - has benefits you just don't get in a car. For one, you miss most of it as the scenery flashes past, and secondly the sounds and smells evade the senses, even with the windows down. Okay, the occasional farm I pass has something of a pungent aroma - known euphemistically as "the smell of the countryside" - but more often than not the countryside is a far more pleasant experience than lungfuls of car emissions that towns have to offer.
The poppy photograph was made shortly after sunrise today, and has a quality of light that you just don't get once the sun climbs too high in the sky. At this time of year it's all over by 9:00am: I usually pack up until later in the day.
*Former WW II airfield, opened in July 1941.
300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with TC-14E II TC. 1/400 second at f/5.6. -0.33 EV. ISO 200.
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