National Insect Week 2020 #EntoAtHome #NIW2020
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Pueblos blancos … y negros
Olvera Ronda Setenil Zahara de la Sierra
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The place the sun sets …
“The place the sun sets” is the literal translation of المغرب – al-maġhrib – the Arabic name for Maroc / Morocco …
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Cadiz
When abroad, I take my fair share of holiday snaps. Fear not, I am not about to publish them all here. But when walking around…
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Photography – free to the world
180 years ago … . On the 19th of August 1839, the French government bought the patent for the Daguerreotype process and announced it would…
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Snails of the riverbank
Remember the old children’s favourite, with Hammy the hamster and his pals, voiced by the late, great Johnny Morris? I wonder how he would have…
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And in the final furlong …
… it’s Heronymous ahead of Heronista by a length
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St Monans Arts Festival
My kitchen will once again become a gallery for the local Community Arts Festival on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th September – so please drop…
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Read my colours …
Continuing the hexapod theme, here’s a few that are sending the message “don’t mess with me, I’m dangerous” or at least, pretending to be dangerous.…
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A few six legged friends. Or maybe enemies. Your call.
Some folk hate insects. I can understand that. I never used to be very keen on wasps, and there are a few creepy crawlies that…
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The translucent fly
I don’t remember seeing one of these before … Volucella pellucens, the White-banded Drone Fly, aka the Pellucid or Large Pied-hoverfly, which lays its eggs…
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Sunsets and Silhouettes
In the low light of late evening, wet sand reflects and intensifies the rich hues of the setting sun; with sandpipers silhouetted and oystercatchers caught…
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Easter Parade
Easter Parade #1 Easter is approaching and the shops are full of eggs and endearingly fluffy yellow chicks. Of course, all young animals have that…
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Not the common cormorant …
The common cormorant (or shag) Lays eggs inside a paper bag … So wrote Christopher Isherwood. Of course, without getting into the differences of taxonomic…
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There’s no picture like a snow picture …
There’s no picture like snow picture like no picture I know … (sounds like…) Snow is a great opportunity for photographs. Yes, it helps if…
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Tree-creeping
Treecreepers can be very annoying when you want to get their photo. They have a nasty habit of creeping around to the far side of…
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Videos
I make no great claims for my videos. At least, not on the grounds of technical quality. But occasionally I see things where movement, and…
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The long and winding pier #3 – Stormy Monans
A while back, I wrote a couple of posts about the Blocks – St Monans’ famous zig-zag pier. The first was about photographers who flock…
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#GiantLanterns @EdinburghZoo
It was a dreich, cold and windy night, difficult at times to avoid blurring from raindrops and condensation on the lens, but when the elements…
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Pyrotechniques … photographing fireworks
Photographing fireworks is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, even when you have a good idea of what to expect from the display. First you…
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And the UK number one is …
There is no doubt that the robin has always been the the number one bird at Christmas, adorning many cards and trees. A couple of years…
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Vole watching
There weren’t a lot of wildfowl within photo range of the hides at Morton Lochs on Saturday. But the hide facing into the forest was…
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Not a sparrow
I don’t know how many times I have seen a dunnock and thought it was a sparrow. They do look quite like sparrows – hence…
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The Hill
And now for something a little different. Not wildlife. Not Fife. Not a close up. A few weeks ago I was going for a walk…
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Happy Seal …
Can seals smile? This one certainly looks happy … But maybe that’s just the result of anthropomorphism. And the big flatfish that’s in its mouth…
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