After the snow-the mud! I've been sliding around in it this week, both inside this Land Rover and in my wellies.
The Discovery was at Land Rover's testing ground in Solihull. My photo shows the Sunday Telegraph's reporter Dave Harrison driving it through a swamp and creating a large wave which I had to step smartly out and away from just after I pressed the shutter release! This is only a standard LR Disco-no fancy modifications.

Over at Land Rover's Gaydon site I was lucky to be able to photograph the new LRX concept car. It's the new 'greener' 4x4 and had just arrived back from a tour of the USA. The vehicle is a one-off. Bespoke cars don't come cheap and this one cost Land Rover close to £1million to produce. It's a fully working vehicle, but the engine is a standard one rather than the 60 mpg diesel being developed for the production model.



My second muddy job was to photograph The Cotswold Canals near Stroud in Gloucestershire. The idea had been for British Waterways to part fund re-opening a section of the old Stroudwater Navigation and Thames and Severn Canals. The old route from Gloucester to London has been infilled in places-like this bridge near the M5 by Stroud. After funding cuts it looks like restoration will be suspended now. So the old photo of the Victorian working canal boat on the Cotswold Canal might be the last photo of a boat navigating this stretch of water after all.