There is an old adage within photography and that is if you do not record something within six months of arriving in a place then it will have changed.

This view on the Northern Fringe of Ipswich is subject to contentious planning change and the vista seen here might no longer be on account of the need for more ‘architect designed executive homes’ to cater for the employment needs of BT and Felixstowe Dock – areas of employment in neighbouring urban areas. I always laugh when I see the phrase ‘architect designed …’ in adverts for new style homes. I wonder who else design houses to building regs and squeezes them in all higgly piggedly on top of each other?

Recording this view this morning was on my earmarked list for Edgelands as for most of last year there was a big heap of sand or fertilizer on the track and I am drawn to heaps of stuff in making images. It even appears on some Google Earth imagery but I rolled up three quarters of an hour before sunrise today to find that even that had gone so I did not use any film but recorded the image on the D810.

It is very much more than 6 months since I moved into Ipswich and this view has been one I always looked forward to as we exited Ipswich just past the railway line. The road is a nightmare with people commuting in from the sticks to earn a crust in Ipswich. Just how much more of a nightmare will it become if this development goes ahead?

It was rather cold at -4C but i love to see the shapes of trees and see through them in this light.