Photograph from a series showing Crimean battlefields, 1900-01. The photograph shows the Balaklava battlefield from the north, the scene of the Charge of the Light Brigade. There are a number of small settlements distributed across the valley and hills in the distance. The photograph is tinted with pinks and blues.

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry during the Battle of Balaklava, 25th October 1854. The heavy losses sustained and the subsequent poem by Lord Tennyson ensured that the scene continued to be of interest to British, French and Russian photographers decades after the event.