Just a quick message to my readers to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year. Our Christmas tree at home has white LEDs on it. Just for a change I tried a different Light Painting mode on my Huawei mobile phone; Traffic Trails. My usual Silky Water mode gave […]
Category Archives: Wildlife
We’ve got the builders in, so I need to be around the house all day to answer questions and advise. This means my photographic radius is somewhat reduced. It’s like lockdown but much more expensive and noisier! I could still have a wander round the house and garden with my macro lens. It’s surprising what […]
In our new garden in Worcester we are still learning about what plants and wildlife we have. Putting to one side the squirrels that drop bits of part-chewed walnuts (and squirrel spit!) all over our cars on the drive, there are some interesting insects around, like this Bronze Shield Bug. Some of you will know […]
Yesterday afternoon, as it was a lovely day, I went for a walk round a local country park. I took my Panasonic TZ-100 travel-zoom compact camera, as it’s small and light. The sun was quite low in the sky and it was reflecting well off the large lake at the park. How that light looked […]
Lockdown has given me lots of extra time to examine my Oxfordshire* garden and its wildlife, more specifically the life that feeds or lives/dies, on my eryngiums. * Yes, I know I have a Wiltshire postal address, but that’s a quirk of Royal Mail’s systems. I’ve also had a chance to try out my Olympus’s […]