Paul and I went out for a walk with the cameras today, and it was the first time in months that we haven’t been swathed in layers of hats and scarves and gloves. We’d set ourselves the challenge of finding evidence of spring, and although we’re a few weeks too early for most of the [...]
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Last week, when it wasn’t snowing, I found these feathers lying in the street close to my house. I can’t work out what bird they might belong to. They don’t belong to the Egyptian Geese, which had been my first thought. Then I wondered whether they’d come from the Red Kite that I often see [...]
A snow day’s pretty exciting in the south of England, and seeing as I had to go out in it anyway, I figured I might as well take the camera with me. If the slideshow embedded above doesn’t work in your browser, you can also see all of my snowy photos on Flickr.
A snapshot of 2008.
Posted in inspiration, photos on Dec 31st, 2008
One of my resolutions for 2009 is to get outside every single day. Even if it’s freezing cold, like it is today, or tipping it down with rain, I want to try and get outdoors. A good incentive is to take my camera with me, and look for tiny little things that I might not [...]
I walked around the lake this morning, and bumped into the pair of Eyptian Geese. They were sitting on the railings around the duck-feeding platform, so I sneaked up on them with the camera. I managed to take about twenty pictures before Mr Egyptian Goose decided that I was very annoying, and honked to [...]
These were both taken on my walk back from the local Post Office this morning. I had my little camera (a Pentax Optio A30) on its maximum zoom capacity, so I was able to take both of these from a distance, while I was being eyed suspiciously from the top of a tree! I’ve been [...]
I didn’t go foraging for hazelnuts or sloes this year. There didn’t seem to be any sloes growing at all (no sloe gin!), and by the time Sarah had gone to look for hazelnuts, the squirrels had eaten them all. Except for this one, apparently, which I found on the edge of my [...]
Baby, it’s cold outside…
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Oct 29th, 2008
Snow! In October! Usual for many parts of the world, I’m sure, but quite unusual in my little corner. I spent an hour first thing this morning walking around with the camera, trying to catch the atmosphere of such a crisp, cold, icy morning in the middle of what ought to be Autumn. I [...]
Paul and I went for a little walk in the field closest to our house, so that Paul could take some photographs of me wearing the skirt that I drafted and made today. Just as we were going home again, he pointed out this little white egg.
This afternoon, after we’d become bored with scraping the dirt off the house, Paul and I went for a walk in The Wilderness. It’s part of the University campus, and somewhere I spent quite a lot of time when I was a student. Paul took photographs, and I talked to geese. :)