Sunk Island road

I do live in a wonderful and fairly empty part of the UK. Apart from the City of Hull,  the East Riding of Yorkshire consists mainly of small towns and villages which lie between the North Sea, the mighty River Humber and the North Yorkshire moors. 

The Wolds, which once you escape the watery edges, are folded hills and valleys of chalkland created by glaciers in the last ice age. You can walk in them for hours and barely see anyone, much less a dwelling. 

The flat edges of the County hold a different beauty (and a threat from rising water levels) in their endless roads and fields, snooker-table flat and with huge skies . This road is in Sunk Island, a part of Holderness. It is much photographed and this picture is a stitch of three photographs with a large 400 mm lense to flatten the perspectives. The road does not, of course, end with a tree in the middle but swings left just as you approach it. Nonetheless it does make for a startling vision. In summer, of course, the view is very different as the leaf covering reaches across the road surface and throws light and shadow in different directions.