Sunsets, Moonscapes and other beautiful things.

17/10/2024

Tonight's Supermoon-the Hunter Moon....

18/09/2024

Tonight's Harvest Moon

19/08/2024

Tonights's Supermoon (also a blue moon), lighting up the clouds....

12/08/2024

Fantastic to see a hare visiting the Dewpond up near Chantry Hill the other day.

A very unexpected visitor arrived at the Dewpond a couple of weeks ago when I was there photographing all the birds bathing there. At first I thought it wa...

06/08/2024

Well my Inulas were definitely popular this week! Here they are again today amongst all the sunflowers in today's Argus! 😄

02/08/2024

Really pleased that the Argus preferred my Inulas over all the beautiful sunflower photos that have been submitted recently too! My thanks to Debbie for letting me know it was in the paper today. 🙂

31/07/2024

This is my first go at cyanotype printing. (Masking out shapes onto sun-sensitive paper and then leaving it out in the sun for the paper to develop and leave the shapes). I bought a set from Hobbycraft just to try it out. I was a bit disappointed with the outcome as it is a bit grainy and also I didn't realise the kit contained different colours of the printing paper and this one was pink. I had to open the paper pack in a darkened room and that was the first sheet that came out of the pack. 😄🙄- I was hoping for the traditional blue and white image. I made the hare stencil from one of my recent photos and pressed some flowers from my garden. I think the flowers may have let light in somehow as they weren't pressed enough. It said press them for two hours when actually I reckon two weeks would have been better! Interesting though. I can't wait to try another one to see if I can get a sharper print next time.

24/07/2024

An amazing experience photographing hares last Sunday-a lovely sunny day for a change! 🙂

Last Sunday late afternoon turned out to be magical as hares suddenly appeared all around me, feeding among the flowers. It was so beautiful. I wore colour...

22/07/2024

Well, I spent most of this afternoon choosing and editing three photos to enter into the Countryfile Calendar Competition, thinking for some reason that the closing date was midnight tonight. Imagine how disappointed I felt when I discovered that the competition had actually closed at 10am this morning! No idea how on earth I got the time so wrong! 🙄😄 I took the photos yesterday evening-I had a magical time photographing all the hares that suddenly appeared when I set up my camera on its tripod. I wore colours that would camouflage me and they certainly did as one hare moved nearer and nearer to where I was standing and then quickly ran away in the opposite direction when it suddenly saw me. And another one came rushing past right by my feet! It was wonderful. Hares and wildflowers are a great mix. Wouldn't it be an annoying coincidence if a hare photograph actually won this year's Countryfile Calendar Competition though! 😄

BBC Countryfile Magazine

10/07/2024

Here's my hare in situ in Monday's paper, courtesy of Suzi Sullivan who kindly sent me the information 🙂

03/07/2024

I am still going through all the photos I took of hares a couple of weeks ago, but I just had to share this one as it was the first time I have ever seen a baby hare! 🥰

29/06/2024

What could be better than listening to the wonderful Coldplay concert at Glastonbury whilst editing photos of hares! 😄❤😍