I’ve been reprocessing a few old images including this shot of Black Nab at sunset, Saltwick Bay which I took a couple of years ago. I’d gone up to the coast hoping for a good sunset but the sky remained fairly grey all day and I only had a trace of a sunset. This exposure...
A drive through The Strines, near Sheffield today produced this stunning male red grouse standing on top of a dry stone wall. As I rounded a bend there he was and for a moment we eyed each other up like a couple of western gunslingers wondering who would make the first move. I reversed the...
The nights are drawing in and the days are getting shorter, but the late summer sun is really at its best just now, especially when it falls on a stunning vista like this. This is Curbar Edge in Derbyshire with late summer light bathing the purple flowering heather moorland and kissing the edges of the...
A few static shots of a common pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus). I would like to try some flight shots but don’t have a working IR trigger which I reckon would be required for such a small and active mammal. Many years ago, in the days of film, I tried photographing bats in flight with an home...
I spent a pleasant hour photographing house sparrows interacting with man as they picked up crumbs around our breakfast table outside the motorhome. There were good numbers of adults and juveniles all as bold as brass, feeding from our hands and perching on the bikes propped up at the side. It was nice to capture...
