Bumping into Kate Jackson on Friday night made me realise I had been neglecting my ongoing Edgelands work.

The Spring and Summer has been far too wet and windy for the Large Format gear so I extended my parameters and began shooting some images digitally.

Regular readers will know that if it is dry in the morning and I am not working away or up a ladder making images then I get out on my bike as a means of keeping myself trim and shipshape. It also gives me the opportunity to see things that I reference for making images. Given that we are now nearly into the 8th  month of the year I realised that some of these reference images needed recording.

Ever since I made my initial Edgelands work and I discovered the Verbascum plants, I see them everywhere. One such grouping was noted yesterday towards the end of an epic 12.5 mile bike ride. I was a tad tired this morning so I yomped down the Gipping with a camera on my back and grabbed a few images.

This is what I saw yesterday but canned today.

Others can be seen in my Extended Edgelands Gallery on the site.