My photography hours over the last week have all been spent underneath a camo cloth, my foxburka. The only time of the year I tend to use it is in spring and I only use it at fox dens. I had promised myself not to let spring go by unnoticed this year, because of too frantic a search and […]
I honestly cannot remember the last time that I did not produce a single image worth sharing during a weekend. But now’s the time, and I truly hope it will not happen too often again. The Sunday morning was spent in the Little Owl hide, but it really is not the most interesting time of […]
Various things to be done in and around the house this weekend but I managed to go out for a few hours on Friday morning. That’s the positive side of these damn early sunrises around this time of the year: being able to go out and be back home when it is still morning. I […]
At last, spring has figured out the route to our country and now nature can go about its regular business for this time of the year: bloom, blossom and florish! While most photographers may have gone searching for blue Moorfrogs, delicate flowers, displaying songbirds or the first insects, I decided to stick to the plan and […]
Although morning temperatures remain very low and the trees are still leafless, spring has definitely made a sneaky slow entrance. It just smells different when you go out in the early morning, more earthy if you will. Rain is finally predicted and I expect an explosion of greens by next weekend. Mammals and birds sense it […]
Last week, a decent patch of heather close to home went up in flames. Terrible for insects and amphibians, but an interesting subject for photography. I wanted to visit the area and try some landscape photography to show the contrast between scorched earth and fluffy pastel skies. The former was no problem, the latter was. […]