A Yorkshire landscape photographer’s dream! This is not England in the 1930s, but England in 2013! Not a sight I come across very often but these stooks of corn looked fantastic standing in lines drying out in the weak sunshine. The light was awful and I had to use a combination of grads to hold back...
Another visit to North Yorkshire and the colours are starting to develop really well. Hoping to get some nice red grouse images in the flowering heather but in the meantime, here’s another curlew. A very graceful bird.
Mission impossible? Almost! I spent a couple of hours trying common swift photography at the nest and it’s a hard task. By the time you think they are going to jump out of the nest and you’ve pressed the shutter, they’ve gone! Now that I know where they are nesting, I will try again next...
A banded demoiselle resting over a pool in the late summer sun. These creatures look like little fairies as they flutter up and down the river edge with wings that seem to beat in slow motion. Stunning!
Another baking August day and I think this year, more than any I can remember, has been a superb butterfly year. In our back garden stands a buddliea bush that must be a contender for the Guinness Book Of Records for the UK’s largest and it is smothered in butterflies just now. Mostly peacocks today,...
