easily distracted by shiny things…
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 [...]
Way back in February, on our way home from Devon, we stopped off at Bristol Zoo. I took a few photos, as usual, but I wasn’t feeling very well that day so I wanted to try and concentrate on seeing as much as possible and having a good time. I love anywhere that you can [...]
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, nature on Mar 21st, 2011
A couple of Saturdays ago we went to the Natural History Museum. We booked tickets for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition (which was the reason we’d made the trip), and also booked ourselves onto a Spirit Collection Tour. There are a few things-in-jars on display in the new Darwin building, but the 30-minute [...]
Excuse me, are you sure you haven’t got any food…?
Last weekend we drove down to Devon, to visit Paul’s family. We stopped at Paignton seafront, where we played a dancing game on the pier, took lots of photos underneath the pier, and chased a big crow who was trying to break open an enormous shellfish by dropping it on our car! I am full [...]