My Dorset
A personal view by Roger Lane
Published in December ’21
Snow on Bulbarrow (1990). I recall this Sunday evening back in 1990 when Roger Holman and I had decided to brave the elements after a snowstorm and eventually arrived on Bulbarrow. Looking down onto Dorset’s Blackmore Vale on a winter’s evening, the views were spectacular. However, for me, photographing the patchwork of fields and streams that is the Blackmore Vale and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Vale of the Little Dairies’ was the main reason for being there. In this landscape it seems little has changed since Hardy’s time and long may that be so.
DORSET born and bred, I have lived and worked in the county all my life in addition to photographing it for over fifty years throughout the seasons, especially autumn and winter, which I find particularly suit the Dorset landscape. With the Covid travel restrictions, even within the confines of our county, I decided to take advantage of the isolation periods and review my many photographs of Dorset. It was a …
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