Monthly Archive: September 2016

West Pennard and Glastonbury Tor - Somerset, UK. ID 808_0230

Equinox Sunset

This year the autumn equinox falls on the 22nd September.  I’m on holiday soon so today is as close to the equinox I am going to get.  My Lightrac iPad app showed that from West Pennard the sun...

West Pennard and Glastonbury Tor - 1/50th sec f/11

West Pennard Evening

This evening’s weather was looking good so I returned to West Pennard to photograph the scene I visited this morning.  My plan was to capture the sunset behind Glastonbury Tor.  As is often the case,...

Somerset Vale - West Pennard, UK. ID 808_0140

West Pennard Morning

This morning a thin layer of mist lay around the levels between Wells and Glastonbury in Somerset.  The fields on Pennard Hill provide a great view overlooking St Nicholas Parish Church towards Glastonbury Tor.  I...

Comma (Polygonia c-album) - Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. id 807_9840

Lynchcombe Steps

In the middle of September when the hot summer days of August are still in our minds we suddenly find ourselves in autumn.  During a walk around Lynchcombe I discovered that the berries and brown colours...

Morning Mist - Pilton, Somerset, UK.

Mist Season

As autumn approaches mist season returns to Somerset .  Today I stopped to photograph Glastonbury Tor surrounded in mist, plus the valleys around West Compton and Pilton. At Dungeon Farm the footpath provided a...

An average day in Somerset

Another Day

Another day and another long cycle drive across Somerset to my workplace near the border with Dorset.  I decided the night before to take my camera to capture the highlights of the journey as I went....

Cheddar Gorge - Somerset, UK.

Cheddar Gorge

After being unwell for a few days I had to get out and find some fresh air. I walked to the top of The Pinnacles of Cheddar Gorge. I sat on the edge of...

Lynchcombe Steps

Lynchcombe views are the best in Somerset.  Today, with its beautiful blue sky, and fluffy white clouds, the views were at their summer best.  So I had to take way to many landscape photographs.  Here are...

Wall (Lasiommata megera) - Draycott Sleights, Somerset, UK.

Draycott Walls

My return to Draycott Sleights attempting to find more Walls.  Not the wall of rock below but the Wall butterfly  (Lasiommata megera). It was early in the morning and after chasing a few old Chalkhill Blues...