al’ natural habitats At first sight they strike you as being completely natural, when all three are actually unnatural habitats – each a relatively recent post-glacial environment that has been shaped by man. Wangford Warren It is hard to believe that the Brecks natural state was probably an active and extensive dune system. Here man’s intervention, in the shape of millennia of clearance and agriculture, has produced the Brecks’ patchwork of fields, pastures, heaths and woodland. And where agriculture ends silviculture in the form of Thetford Forest takes over. Between 1934 and 1980 86% of Brecks heathland was lost. Now little more that 2500ha remain in Suffolk, despite a Forestry Commission programme of heathland creation.
Wangford Warren, photographed by Steve Aylward in November 2009 using a Canon EOS 5D, focal length of 17; F # 16; exposure 1/30. Shot in RAW file format and then converted to a JPEG using Adobe Lightroom.
Hollesley Heath, photographed by Steve Aylward in August 2008 using a Canon EOS 5D, focal length of 17; F # 18; exposure 1/10. Shot in RAW file format and then converted to a JPEG using Adobe Lightroom.
