This year I was lucky enough to be highly commended in the British Wildlife Photography Awards with my stacked image of a broad bodied chaser dragonfly nymph. I was pleased not just that I had an image featured, but that it was one of my pond creature shots and my first really successful stacked image.…
DetailsThe water vole is a species that has evaded me for quite a while. I have had a few sightings over the years, but no good photo opportunities. So when a friend offered to show me the a water vole platform on a small stream local to me, I didn’t hesitate. While there a small water…
DetailsLast weekend I was playing with my camera in my father-in-law’s garden. We were comparing the results to my sister in law’s high-end compact camera by photographing a small flock of starlings on a neighbours roof. The 300mm with 1.4x tele was far superior as expected, but then it is multiple times the price! I…
DetailsYesterday I had an afternoon to myself, so headed down to Roding Valley Recreation ground where there has been a red-necked grebe staying for a week or so. It would be a new bird species for me and there would be a chance of a decent photo based on reports from other birders/photographers. I headed…
DetailsHad a quick family visit to Rainham Marshes this morning and it was an enjoyable couple of hours. I didn’t have the time to put my usual effort in, but had some good sightings that are worth posting about. I started off saying hello to Howard who was set up on the sea wall and…
DetailsGoing back to a couple of weekends ago, while on my birthday wildlife weekend, I spent an afternoon at a seal colony. Descending the steep cliff path down towards the colony, we could see a number of seals out on the rocks. The weather was warm and this small seal was sitting on a rock,…
DetailsA few years ago I dug a pond and this year it had it’s first frogspawn. I had loads of tadpoles for much of the spring and summer as a result and they began emerging as frogs a couple of months ago. There are still some around my pond and on a dull day last…
DetailsA couple of weekends ago I was planning to go to Dorset to find some raft spiders, but for various reasons I had to cancel that trip and instead I ended up in Yorkshire. The first day was spent up on the North York Moors and the date was the 12th of August, the start…
DetailsI recently had the opportunity to photograph an adult Great crested newt (under license) properly for the fist time using my photo aquarium and natural light. I have seen the photo on survey many times, but this was the first time I had found one in the day time and when I had my set…
DetailsOn Monday I decided to have a day out with the family, and we ended up heading to RHS Hyde Hall. I have only visited a few time before, and never on a sunny day in summer. On my previous visits I had suspected the ‘new’ lake there would be good for dragonflies, and I…
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