This was a lucky capture! Fast movement and poor backlighting was making the shooting conditions tough but also giving a wonderful atmosphere for photography. The grain in the image from high ISO really adds to the atmosphere of this small town rodeo.
I was happy to be able to capture this mood last Spring. Searching for views to work with through repeated visits certainly helped me to be productive when these atmospheric conditions arose.
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Canon EOS 5D with Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZE, ISO 100 and f/5.6.
Hippisley Cox (1927) passed this way in his fine travelogue of ancient roads and trackways in Wessex, describing the enclosed top of this hill as
“the site of a complete neolithic settlement, including dew-ponds, a cattle compound, a flint quarry, lynchetts, dicthes of defence and deep cattle tracks formed by much going and coming of beasts from the valley.”
