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I was mooching around the garden looking for a subject when this tiny moth flew past me and tried to hide behind one of the sunflowers. I found it and here you have today’s photo. By a lucky coincidence I also got that lovely magenta echinacea background, they are definitely
A quick look back at my favourite tree on my morning walk.
I had an evening out with a few of the camera club members for a bit of light painting. – 1 photograph although I did have to tweak the position of top middle me in photoshop 😉
I went super macro today and got silly close to a few things in the garden. I liked the colours in this abstract shot of the honeysuckle, I then worked my way around the garden, I particularly like the stinging nettles…I will revisit these before Debbie rips them out.
Dashing back from a meeting I revisited the old gatehouse just off the A120 as you enter Great Dunmow. This brick archway gatehouse (C17, remodelled in the C18, listed grade II) survives on the southern boundary of the Little Easton Manor site. It continues to deteriorate, despite its listed status.
Who remembers that blast from the past? (Eyeless in Gaza were a band in the 1980’s – I know nothing about them except their name!)
We used to have great bushes of lavender but we had to pull it all out at the start of the year as it had become very woody and overgrown…we gained another quarter of garden by removing it ;-). We did get some new lavender which is potted rather than
Back in the garden and we have lots of buzzing creatures busy pollinating the plants. Here’s a bumble bee on Lavender. I’m sure the honey is delicious!
From the “Who knew this would look any good” school of flower photography. I mean, who turns an image of a sunflower black and white really? I took an infra-red photo of a dandelion seed head some time ago which had a similar effect and I said at the time I’d do
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