Happy New Year to all, I hope 2014 sees the realisation of all your hopes and dreams!

I love shooting landscapes and portraits, they are my favourite things. There's so much beauty in nature, which includes the human form.

Occasionally though, it pays to change things a little, look a bit closer and find the beauty in man-made objects. I'm lucky to have a few old buildings in my garden, they are close to being reclaimed by nature, leaning dangerously and near collapse. The benefit of this neglect is the incredible colour and detail in the old wood, faded creosote, rusted nails and doors held closed with bits of old twig. 

I took the camera out this morning just to capture a few of these shapes and textures.

Frost on the double doors, the camera is level, the doors aren't!

Snow on the cross-braces

Locked

Hook

There's such beauty in the colours, the faded paint, the streaks of rust. To my eye it equals the most stunning of landscapes.