Pair of Marbles
I had a great afternoon at Hatch Hill in Somerset chasing Marbled White and Chalkhill Blue butterflies with my camera. It was a hot day and it was very hard to get near. I...
Monthly Archive: July 2012
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…...
An Afternoon off Work
Last autumn my work relocated 25 miles away from home. It created some time and travelling difficulties. However, I quickly decided that to make the most of the move I should start exploring reserves...
Please help the Large Blues!
Large Blue (Maculinea arion) – Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_2930 Due to the rapid grass flowering, following the recent wet period, many Wild Thyme flowers are swamped and inaccessible to egg-laying females. As...
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...
