One of the lovelier things about living where I do is that at this time of year everything starts turning purple – a couple more weeks and it should be full-on technicolor!…
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Back as a kid in the 80s I remember going on school trips to the Tudor House museum in Southampton (much of the city was flattened by enemy bombs during WWII so this was one of the few ‘old’…
These artichokes aren’t in my own garden but aren’t they awesome! I’m very tempted to grow some next year; not so much for eating, more for looking at and photographing (and attracting the bees)……
I don’t want to get all camera-geeky on you but I just wanted to say how much I am loving my latest lens [admin: if you’re reading this, don’t panic, it’s not another new lens, it’s the one I…
Here’s another photo from Friday when I went to Weston Shore. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of this south coast beach ‘resort’ before, it’s probably because it’s sandwiched between an oil-refinery and a relatively intimidating, brutalist sink…
It’s hard to believe but the brilliantly-named Queen Anne’s Lace is actually a form of wild carrot! It’s one of my favourite, favourite plants – I love how it appears to be topped with a little cage, bulging with…
Oh dear, I’m really not accustomed to heat, and today it is hot! I’m English, I am designed to thrive when there’s a fine drizzle, heavy cloud and/or mist so it’s a bit of a shock to the system…
I’ve been tinkering with Adobe Lightroom recently and I am loving it! Whereas Photoshop can turn its hand to many, many tasks (and very well, too) Lightroom is geared just towards photography. I took these at the seaside over…
I hope all is well and good for you all. I am happy, lucky, well and loved. I am also very grateful. I don’t need to tell you that there have been some terrible things happening in the world…