Starling Trail
I love watching the Starlings at Ham Wall, Shapwick Heath and Westhay. Over the last few years there have been many changes in the number of birds and the number of people that visit...
Category: Landscape
The Land that Time Forgot
Somerset is famous for its cider orchards, however one Apple still thinks rural England is fighting the war – at least near Weston-super-Mare. Travel south from Uphill and the land returns to black-and-white. The...
Tree on Fire
A few days ago I made a second attempt at capturing a sunset behind the Deerleap Tree. This time I decided to try out the Sun Seeker iPhone app which I forgot to use...
Deerleap Tree on LightTrac
Back in January I photographed Glastonbury Tor and experimented with a couple of iPhone apps that aim to track the arc of the Sun across the sky. The apps were Sun Seeker and LightTrac...
London 2012 Autumn Olympics
This is a picture of the Dearleap Tree I took today while it was raining. Yesterday’s picture looked the same, and the one taken the day before that, and the day before that, and…...
These fields need a Bale Out
Successful hay making relies on the grass being thoroughly dried before it is baled. I’m not sure this farmer near Glastonbury baled dry grass but after the wettest June in a hundred years in...
Leave it to the Leaves
The Deerleap Tree After many days of dull grey weather when the tree never seemed to change I stopped taken its picture. Then a few weeks working in Holland and I return to find...
What a Difference a Day Makes
DAY 1: Deerleap Tree – Mendips, Somerset, UK. JB5_0571 DAY 2: Deerleap Tree – Mendips, Somerset, UK. JB5_0657 One tree, two pictures, 24 hours apart. Day 1 is a colour photograph not that there...
Starling Trail
Jupiter setting with Starlings – Shapwick Heath, Somerset, UK. ID DSC_7372. Knock Knock. Who’s there? Jupiter. Jupiter who? Jupiter hurry to Shapwick Heath, or you’ll miss the Starlings. That is a rubbish joke! But...
Chimney Tops on Christmas Eve
Last Christmas it snowed and the area looked beautiful. This year the weather was grey, followed by grey and then… darker grey with rain. But just as it was getting difficult to get out...
