March 2002 - February 2003
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Blackdown Hills - Area of Outstanding Natuaral Beauty (AONB)
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Pauline was appointed  as an experienced rural documentary photographer, by The Countryside Agency to take photographs for the Blackdown Hills Rural Partnership.

The aims of the residency were several, the main one being to provide the Partnership with an image bank to be used in promotional material of many kinds, to record the changing times, the passing of the old and the coming of the new.

The selection of images shown just gives a flavour of this very special place. More details about the Blackdown Hills and the photographs can be found on the web site www.blackdown-hills.net

'The Blackdown Hills are known for the steep, wooded scarp face they present to the north. This slopes away gently to the south as a plateau deeply dissected by the three main rivers, the Yarty, the Culm and the Otter and their numerous tributaries. On top of the plateau there are wide open windswept places and in the valleys, nestle villages and hamlets, surrounded by an intricate pattern of small enclosed fields and linked by a maze of high hedged lanes.'

The partnership now has over 3000 images on which to draw

and they do form the basis of a wonderful archive of the year 2003