Cycling on a summer’s day

Alongside photography I am a keen cyclist and whenever I can I try to head out on the bicycle. Very often I try to combine the activities. A few weeks ago I headed out of London into Essex. I was revisiting the “Riding to the end of the road” project and what I wanted to do was spend a little bit of time exploring the hinterland between London and the surrounding countryside.

For this exploration I stuck my ancient GoPro on the front of the bicycle to capture some of those places where the land begins to change.

There will be more of this later but in the meantime, though, here’s a short section of the video when I finally got out into the countryside and tilted the camera upwards to capture the sky overhead. It was a beautiful day and the sunlight was breaking through the trees, dappling the road.

When I’m out cycling I have to concentrate on the road ahead. Filming the sky overhead gives me (and you) another view of the joy of a cycle ride.

I hope that you enjoy the video. I am planning to do more content celebrating the joy of cycling over on my Youtube channel so head over there and subscribe if you would like to keep up to date with these and my videos on photography.