Howard Somerville's photos

Wilmcote, Warwickshire

Photograph by Shirley Norton (1955-2011).

An hour-long session in PhotoShop was all it needed to remove 2 telegraph poles, a spider's web of cables, 3 parked cars, several television aerials, a satellite dish, 2 sodium street lamps, 2 rows of double yellow lines, an estate agent's sign and 4 plastic wheelie bins, and to replace a blank sky with an interesting one. Apart from that, this scene is exactly as it was (or as it once might have looked before it became festooned with the eyesores listed above, to which the planning authorities and residents are seemingly indifferent).