Urban.

Today’s foray was away from the usual countryside and into our county town, Dorchester, where a little retail therapy was the order of the day. Blisteringly hot, blindingly sunny and with a blue sky that wouldn’t go amiss in the South of France Dorchester was resplendent. Having said that, finding anything much of note to photograph presented a challenge and despite it’s potential I struggled somewhat. Whilst light is the photographers friend it can also be his enemy, not enough of it versus too much of it, you just can’t win, it’s a bit like a farmer and the weather, and today’s bright sunlight didn’t do me any particular favours. Over bright in the main and deep shadows causing contrast that took away all the detail in shots, bleaching things out or hiding them in the darkest shadows, thank heaven I don’t rely on my photography to feed me because I might have gone hungry today. Still it was fun trying to come up with something, playing with the shapes provided by the architecture and the contrasting colours of modern day cladding against the dark blue sky. I know I shouldn’t moan, but I will ‘cos I’m British but I couldn’t half do with some cloud cover!