New Zealand is in summer now and last night I visited the Henley Cheese factory. The conditions weren’t great and the image, okay, but nothing special. However, on the way there, I did enjoy a welcome distraction. I love hay bales, straw ones, not the kind shrink-wrapped in plastic, I hate those with a passion.

However, yesterday evening, as the sun was going down, I couldn’t help but turn my camera to the hay bales wrapped in ghastly green plastic on Henley Berwick road. The way the light was catching on the plastic, well, it was lovely, almost mesmerising.

I couldn’t find an amazing composition, but it didn’t matter, I was just enjoying the display of hay bales dotted over multiple paddocks. Definitely worth a snap or 2.

When I finally arrived at the Henley Cheese Factory, I’d already had my reward, not in pictures, because I couldn’t do the scene justice, but just by being there to see lovely fields of green plastic hay bales. Not something I thought I’d ever acknowledge. However, that’s the beauty of landscape photography, you never know what is going to look great under the gaze of an evening sun. Here below is a cheese factory pic from last night.

I’m not sure if I’m getting a bit soft in my old age or perhaps just a little more grateful for the small things, but I did enjoy that hay bale surprise, and I look forward to the next one.