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Land Rover Owner International Show 2023 at Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Saturday 9th September 2023.

About the photograph.

The photograph was shot in colour, but there was too much strong sunlight and the photo needed a lot of dehaze setting, but then I thought to convert it into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, for a more dramatic feel to what he was doing.

What happened in the photo was that his heavily modified Land Rover Defender (seen on the left) came up against a very large slope, and would not be able to drive up by itself, as the slope is far too steep.

So the driver gets out, and pulls out the cable from the winch motor on the front of his Defender, then here in the photo you see him climbing up the rough ground.

His plan is to climb over, tie the cable to any strongest support on the other side of the big lump of ground, so that he would get back in his car, and the winch would pull itself up the slope, then he could drive over it.

And that is what he did.
 
About the day.
 
In the early morning, I woke up, got ready, and took a three hour drive to Belvoir Castle, but that morning was already very warm, with a cloudless sky and the sun beating down on the land.

By the time I got there, I was already feeling very hot. I wore light coloured t-shirt, lightweight trousers, and a lot of sun cream, plus plenty of water.

Sadly, after about a couple of hours, I became a bit overheated in the burning sky, there weren’t much shades around, and it was kind of a heatwave of some sort.

So I had to give up, and return home to avoid getting a heat stroke, I only took like about 400 shots, and that was all I could manage.

When I got home, I had to have a cool down and a rest, and thankfully managed to stay well.
 
Land Rover Owner International Show.

Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.

It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.

The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
 
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Taken in: UK / England / Melton District / Belvoir (show map)

Taken on: September 9, 2023

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