Derek challenged me to make a photograph of an urban landscape. I don't live in a town or city, but the suburban area I live in is rapidly being urbanised.
Last year this was a greenfield site, farmland of a mono-culture so probably didn't support much wildlife diversity, but it is soon to be an estate of 48 houses. There is planning permission for another 30 houses to be squeezed onto the adjacent field.
I can't stay on my soap-box for long, where I live was a newbuild in the 1970s and people my age probably bewailed the loss of the house and garden our street is built on!!
Love the way you framed it. It is the same here. Like you, I can’t complain. Our community was built less than 15 years ago. The community we lived in before went from rural to totally suburban in 25 years. Covid sped it up, since so many people learned they could work from home.
I like your composition through the gate. Is this the green area you showed us just recently!? If it is that’s a lot of construction in a short amount of time.
@randystreat doesn't show the scale very well @dutchothotmailcom thank you @grammyn it's a different place, but close by ( I done travel far!) @joysabin brown spaces are better for biodiversity though @shutterbug49 interesting huge change in our recent history
@dutchothotmailcom thank you
@grammyn it's a different place, but close by ( I done travel far!)
@joysabin brown spaces are better for biodiversity though
@shutterbug49 interesting huge change in our recent history