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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Almost Autumn…
Insert an image to make a visual statement. WordPress editorial advice Autumn is almost upon us. Technically autumn starts on the 1st September but nature abhors such neat lines. The summer bedding plants on their last legs and the nights … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Abandoned, Alien Being, Bee Hive, Birch, Botanical Gardens, Ferns, fish, garden, Global Warming, Koi Carp, Oadby, ornamental, photography, Pollard, Pond, Summer, Tree, University of Leicester
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The Summer Hut … No More
Life moves on. We are born, we live and we are not more. The Summer Hut is no more. The truth is I can’t recall when it was last used – probably before COVID. Still it was always there and … Continue reading
Posted in Gartree Explored, Photography, Summer
Tagged Covid, Gartree - Explored, Hut, photography, Wistow
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Post Colonial…
Every now and then I fell old. No really old. The latest occasion was whilst watching this short by the always watchable J.Draper. The purpose of the short is to quickly explain how money was denominated in the Victorian period. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Remastered
Tagged British Empire, Global Warming, J.Draper, Lunar, Money, Moon, Pence, Post Colonial, Pounds, Shillings, The Copper Horse, Victorian England, Windsor Great Park, youtube
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Catch Up…
This is how he wants things. He is the centre of the world’s attention. So yes of course I have made a DJT drawing. It is impossible to remove him from any conversation. Before any Trump hater in the USA … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Pencil, Art, Digital Painting, drawing, Procreate
Tagged Apple Pencil, Digital Painting, Donald Trump, drawing, portrait, Procreate, sketch, sketchbook
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Heatwave No. 04
“…There’s a 4:30 in the morning now? … Bartholomew Jo-Jo Simpson Another heatwave. Out this morning walking through the dew.
Posted in General
Tagged Dawn, Dew, Heatwave, Jubilee Park, photography, River Soar, Summer, sunrise
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What Have I learnt This week?
Always look back at what you captured before. Perhaps you could improve it? Welcome to 2006/08 viewed through the lens of 2025 hardware and software. If only I hadn’t captured the first image as a JPG. So there is a … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Remastered, Summer
Tagged animals, Beaks, Birds, Bradgate Park, charnwood, Dama dama, Dawn, Fallow Deer, Feathers, Feeding, Flight, garden, Happy, Hot, House Sparrows, Movement, Noise, Orange, Pecking, photography, Remastered, Stag, Starlings, Summer, sun, Violence, Warm, Washing, Water, Wings
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London # 02
It is very easy to think that London is some form of special place. It is not. It is the product of almost two millennia of human interaction. The highs are incredible but the lows are vomit inducing. Each time … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Adverts, Ball, City of London, Cycling, Fox, Shaftsbury Avenue, Street Photography, Stuffed Animal, Telephone Box
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London # 01
If the Greater London area is from Mars then the rest of England, or Britain for that matter, is from Venus. Following on in the same vain: The City of London is from Alpha centauri.
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