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My brother bought me this for my 21st and I played it sporadically until The Wedding Present released Українські Виступи в Івана Піла aka Ukrainian John Peel Sessions. I really got into all that Ukrainian style music and followed the band The Ukrainians for a while. I played constantly and
The Summer Solstice, aka the longest day, is probably not the right day to decide “tonight’s the night for light painting”. Sadly, I had seen, in my minds eye, the picture I wanted to make and the fact that I was only going to get an hour or so of
Tuesday night is camera club night and so it was that I travelled out to the Red Lion at Finchingfield where we had the annual summer dinner, and very pleasant it was too. I suspect I missed quite a nice sunset but thought it polite not to up sticks and
Dashed out after dinner this evening to catch the sunset. It’s nearly the longest day so, even I , didn’t manage to miss it today. This is a shot from the top of a hill on the edge of Thaxted with the windmill and church easily visible.
I spent a couple of hours in Little Bardfield by the river tracking down bugs…I found loads 😉 This is a damselfly, it looks like a winter damselfly but these are very rare over here so I am assuming it is, in fact, an immature different species…you’ll have gathered, I’m
We took a walk we have done a few times before around Rickling Green today. Despite all the dire warnings of horrendous weather we managed to avoid the rain until the drive home.
There were 2 quite magnificent weeping willow trees around Doctors Pond a few years ago. Then, this one was (possibly for good reason) cut right back to the trunk…it’s clearly a fighter though and it’s definitely making a come back.
I know I shot the foxgloves just a week or so ago but the weather was closing in and I didn’t have much time so I thought I’d continue another theme of this week – bokeh.
The sun made a rare appearance this morning…but as the morning progressed more and more cloud appeared so, fearing the worst, I popped out at lunchtime and drove down to Rye Meads Nature Reserve just the other side of Roydon. It’s a funny place positioned as it is bang in
Another cracking Tuesday evening spent with the Bishops Stortford Camera Club. Today we visited the Nags Head in Little Hadham where we met up with local nature expert, author and raconteur Jono Forgham who took us on a walk around nearby Hadham Hall. A leisurely walk took in some Bee
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