Garden Flowers
I’ve just had a stroll around the garden. Everything is coming along nicely and there are quite a few new flowers out today as well, so I took some snaps of them with my little compact camera.
Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve just had a stroll around the garden. Everything is coming along nicely and there are quite a few new flowers out today as well, so I took some snaps of them with my little compact camera.
I haven’t done much photography lately, other than recording things such as moths and progress in the garden. It was therefore nice to sell one of my photos of Lake Vyrnwy as a Canvas print last week. I hadn’t been trying to sell the photos, they had simply been posted on this weblog which then...
Mike, the warden of the local Nature Reserve has called around a couple of time this week with little challenges for me in the form of Micro Moths to photograph and identify. I’m only just getting to grips with the Macro Moths so the micros are pretty difficult. The first was this which I think...
My first full year moth-trapping is going to be an exciting one. Not only does it coincide with the formation of the new Ceredigion Moth Group which should keep me busy, but there is the chance of seeing new species almost every time I put the trap out. I starting writing this post about a...
It seems as though the photos of the mating pair of Dasystoma salicella moths I took at the weekend have been in demand. I posted one of them on a forum and immediately had a couple of people ask if they could use it for their own personal records. Obviously I didn’t mind and sent...
It looked like a nice morning for a walk today, the winds were light, the sun was shining and I’d heard that there were some Orange Underwing moths (Archiearis parthenias) around at a local nature reserve. Apparently they can be seen flying around birch tress in the sunshine during March. I had a good look,...
Morgan and I made use of our new RSPB membership and went for a cold winters walk at Ynyshir this morning. Lots of Canada Geese about but Morgan was a little cold so we couldn’t sit and look for birds for too long. I did manage a couple of photos of a bird that I...
I know that for the best light you should really take photos early in the morning or in the evening, but at this time of year at these latitudes there can even be some fairly rich light at midday. I just wandered over to the beach for some fresh air. There wasn’t much going on...
The Snipe that I spotted in the garden yesterday didn’t return, so while I was sat there with the camera set up I decided to take a few photos of the more common birds in the garden, those that are usually overlooked. I think it will be a little photo assignment of mine now to...