2025 - 365 Project
138-365v5 – Two-banded Longhorn Beetle – Rhagium bifasciatum
Seen on our garage door this afternoon. A second shot of this little beastie looking up at him from below:
May 18, 2025 No Comments
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Seen on our garage door this afternoon. A second shot of this little beastie looking up at him from below:
Jess and I did a long walk this morning – 8.5miles around a big circuit from Florida all the way up and around to Hewis Hill and then back along the B6357. Throughout the forestry areas there are many fallen trees, you can regularly see them down these access gaps
This is the road that takes you to our house in the Scottish Borders. It’s the middle of Spring and it’s been glorious weather so you may be wondering why it looks like it’s been snowing. It hasn’t, of course, but this shot was taken using my infra-red converted camera
An old favourite – the dandelion heads always make great subjects, especially in black and white.
This week’s 52frames challenge is “Water” and here is my response to that. I resisted shooting the burn and the waterfalls/cascades again!
We visited an area between Newcastleton and Hawick called Roughope for a walk – it’s near the Cheviots which straddle Scotland and England. It was a lovely day and I had (another) go at Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and was quite pleased with this result. Instead of doing the normal
We took a new walk (for me) out of Newcastleton and into the Liddesdale valley. Lovely area and beautiful weather.
The chaffinches are getting more confident (or hungry) and will tolerate us moving around their “feeding stations” a lot more than previously which means I should, over the course of the next few months, get closer which means better quality pictures of these birds.
This week’s 52frame challenge was “Luxury”. Here’s some (sadly costume) jewellery being examined under a magnifying loupe glass
We’ve got lots of Lady Smock growing on the lawn and we are doing the whole no mow May this year so the Orange Tip Butterflies are loving the flowers that they can get at now.
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