Tagged: Gorse

Stockhill Wood - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB_3580

Stockhill Wood in Winter

I have a mini-project this year to photograph the Stockhill Wood high up on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. I’m hoping to capture rays in the mist that hangs around at the top of...

Withypool - Exmoor, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_8542

Withypool

Withypool Lets start with the petrol station at Withypool! It is a big tourist draw in the village.   Many people have their photographs taken with these old fashioned Shell pumps. The village sits...

Bubwith Acres - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID 825_6631

Bubwith Acres

Catching up with the beasts from the east when snow covered Somerset. Bubwith Acres I have rarely visited this Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve on the side of the Mendip Hills.  Not sure why.  Today...

Winter at Ubley Warren - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID 824_3907

Ubley Warren

Ubley Warren Recently I provided some pictures of Ubley Warren in the snow to the Somerset Life magazine.  These pictures were taken a few years ago using a much older camera.  So when it...

Ubley Warren - Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID 824_3557

Mendip Fog

Ubley Warren With Christmas weather getting worse I head to the hills in an attempt to capture the atmosphere of this other-worldly in the fog. The Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Ubley Warren reserve is scared with deep rakes and...

Oak - Quantock Hills, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_4008

Quantocks

I do not visit the Quantock Hills very often  That is a mistake for which I have not excuse.  Today was a small step to correct that as I headed out to west Somerset. Heather...

Spring Hedge Laying - Lots Grassland, Somerset, UK. ID 821_0590

Lots Grassland and GB Gruffy

Lots Grassland is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up in the Mendip Hills.  Being high means this is an acid grassland on sandstone.  So a visit here makes a refreshing change from...