easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in inspiration, nature on May 1st, 2012
Yay, my shiny new Conker shoes have arrived! They were delivered on Friday, while I was out at work. Paul very kindly went to pick them up from the sorting office for me while I was out at work on Saturday. He was somewhat startled to find that the postman knew me, and was not [...]
Posted in exhibitions, inspiration, museums, nature on Mar 7th, 2012
Somebody at the Grant Museum of Zoology definitely has a sense of humour. These four skeletons are perfectly placed to watch over the whole museum from their vantage point in the first floor gallery! Those of a sensitive disposition should probably look away now, because the Grant Museum is filled with skeletons and things in jars. [...]
I had to go out to the Post Office this morning, and it started off as a very misty day. I thought I might be able to take some photos of trees dramatically silhouetted against the sky, so I took the camera with me. As it turned out I’d brought along the macro lens, which [...]
Peregrine I haven’t taken any bird photos for a while… but today was Paul’s birthday trip, which was a visit to Feathers and Fur, a local falconry centre. It’s a tiny place, inside a garden centre, and a friend had told us about a Groupon offer on their Hands On falconry sessions. Willow, barn owl [...]
Posted in inspiration, museums, nature, photos, volunteering on Oct 13th, 2011
Four corvid skulls, waiting to be put away in a little box. The skulls had been part of a temporary exhibition to illustrate the functionality of differing beak shapes in various species of bird. It was an absolute joy to get out the boxes of bird skulls again, and to have another little look through [...]
Posted in museums, nature, volunteering on Sep 28th, 2011
Meet Izzy and Fizzy – a Herdwick sheep and lamb from Miller’s Ark. Over the summer, Miller’s Ark brought a garden full of animals to MERL, and I was lucky enough to be volunteering that day. The children were allowed inside the pen with the sheep and goats, so I spent most of the afternoon [...]
A couple of weeks ago we went to Paradise Wildlife Park. My photos are here. Thanks to a special offer pointed out to us by a friend, we had tickets for a “Monkey Tour”, which turned out to be absolutely brilliant. We got to meet ruffed lemurs, who were very laid back, and like to be tickled [...]
Walking home yesterday evening, this female stag beetle crossed my path. When I stopped to take a photo, she stuck her tongue out at me. How rude!
I don’t think I’ve even attempted to take any photographs in low light since Paul and I went on the Twilight Photography course at South Hill Park last year. Last week I decided to take a walk down to the lake one evening, and see whether I could capture the sunset. As it turned out [...]
This glamorous fellow is a Nicobar Pigeon. We met him at Bristol Zoo, in the Bird Forest. It’s a little section that you can walk through with lots of birds flying (or in fact mostly walking) around freely. We also met a Roul Roul Partridge, who has an excellent punk hairdo and does a funny [...]