Steve was a master of light and skies. He had a natural gift for composition and his images were incredibly sharp (despite a really dodgy left eye which he hardly used). He almost always used a tripod, even if he (or Sue!) had to carry it miles up steep mountains. He like using Fuji Velvia film for its punchy, saturated colours and relentlessly ensured he was out taking landscape shots at dawn and dusk, day after day, month after month, in the “golden hours”. People used to ask what camera equipment he had, because his pictures were so good, and he would mutter “they didn’t ask Leonardo di Vinci what paintbrushes he used I bet!”

Chestnut in Rape.
Chestnut in a field of oil-seed rape at Two Mile Down in Wiltshire.

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