Man-made
Many popular and iconic landscapes in Britain, such as the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District, are heavily influenced by man's activities. Field boundaries, dry stone walls and farm buildings often add pleasing detail to a photo. Some "natural" wilderness area, such as the Scottish Highlands, are in fact man-made, and the result of centuries of deforestation through habitation, industry, agriculture and grazing. Reservoirs can appear like natural lakes after time. Some man-made features, like aircraft contrails, are visual pollution and rarely add to a scene.
remote farm (Cym Bychan, Wales)
Moors End Farm
Moors End Farm (Wharfedale)
mossy wall
in-bye fields (Wasdale Head, Cumbria)
walls and barn
drystone walls and barns (Wharfedale)
de-forested (Inverpollaidh, Assynt)
Haweswater Reservoir
contrail (Langdale)
There is one corner of the Yorkshire Dales that has attracted me back for over a decade. The countryside around Appletreewick, near the village of Burnsall in the middle reaches of Wharfedale, has a variety of landscapes, from the pastures lying low in the dale, up onto bleak moorland.
sheep field
field barn
late snow drift by wall
pastures
