All image produced by me are Copyright
Copyright – © Simon Marchini 2019. All Rights reserved. Not to be used without permission
When Posted….
-
Recent Posts
-
Join 536 other subscribers
Tags Used
- 100 Days
- Apple
- Apple Pencil
- Apple Pencil 2
- art class
- autumn
- autumn Leaves
- Bee
- Boris Johnson
- Brexit
- Brushes
- Calke Abbey
- church
- City of Leicester
- Conservative Party
- Covid
- Dawn
- Deep Time
- Digital Painting
- Donald Trump
- drawing
- European Union
- Female Nude
- Flooding
- Flowers
- frost
- Game of Thrones
- garden
- Gartree - Explored
- ink drawing
- ink sketch
- iPad
- iphone
- iPhone 5S
- iphoneography
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Jubilee Park
- Kitcam
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democratic Party
- london
- Mist
- Moon
- National Trust
- Nigel Farage
- nude
- Nude Woman
- painting
- photography
- photoshop
- portrait
- Procreate
- Project LV One
- rain
- Ratcliffe on Soar power station
- River Soar
- Rural
- scotland
- Sculpture
- sketch
- sketchbook
- SNP
- Soft Pastels
- Spring
- Street Photography
- Summer
- sunrise
- sunset
- Theresa May
- Tree
- trees
- watercolour
- winter
- woman
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Archives
Categories
- 100 Days
- American Politics
- Apple Pencil
- Art
- art class
- autumn
- Brexit
- Brexit Britain
- christmas
- Conservative Leadership Battle
- Conservative Party
- Corvid 19
- Digital Painting
- Donald Trump
- drawing
- European Referendum
- Four Horsemen
- Gardens
- Gartree Explored
- General
- General Election 2017
- General Election 2019
- General Election 2024
- General Election 2024/25
- Goodbye to Farthing Hill
- Graphic Art
- Halftone
- History
- Independent Group
- ink drawing
- iphone
- Ironstone Beniface
- Jubilee Park
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrats
- Macro
- monochrome
- ON this Day…
- painting
- Paradise – Consumed
- Photober
- Photography
- Playground of the Midlands
- Politics
- Procreate
- Project LV One
- Publishing
- Remastered
- Rugby
- Scottish Independence
- Sculpture
- Sports
- Spring
- Street Photography
- Summer
- Uncategorized
- USA Presidential Election
- watercolour
- Winter
Category Archives: Gardens
Round, Round Round…
There was a time many years ago that I could set my watch by the RAF. 14:55 hrs every weekday, the RAF at Cottesmore* didn’t fly on weekends nor bank holidays, three tornadoes would come shouting up the Mease valley … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography
Tagged A10, Bird Photography, Blue Tit, Cold War, F15, F16, Feral Pigeon, garden, photography, RAF Cottemsore, Starling, Wood Pigeon
Leave a comment
Melting in the heat…
I know this is a view that could get me cancelled (not sure from what?) but I don’t like the summer heat. “Sacrilege”, I hear the hoards shouting. It is an act of faith that we must get out and … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged autumn, garden, Heat, Hoverfly, Jackdaw, Summer
Leave a comment
Garden Bench Photographer….
Sunny summer morning. Feed the birds and time just to relax on the garden bench, watch the world go by and perhaps take a few photographs. The usual suspects devoured the mealworms then the Wren started to put on a … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography
Tagged Bird Photography, garden, Starling, Summer, Wren
Leave a comment
Testing Times….
I spent most of yesterday testing new focusing setting on my camera to see if I could improve things. I learnt a lot.
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Blackbird, City of Leicester, Cygnet, Greylag Goose, Mute Swan, Swallow, Watermead Country Park, Wren
Leave a comment
Windows Fanboy….
I have been a fully paid up member of the Apple walled garden for nearly 12 years now. Before then I was a Windows fanboy. Perhaps the most ludicrous thing I did was drive forty miles to buy a copy … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Apple, Apple Fanboy, Damascene conversion, Gardens, Hidcote Manor, Microsoft, National Trust, Visual Basic, Windows 11, Windows 95
1 Comment
Erratum….
In my previous post I claimed that I was hand holding a 600 mm lenses and it was crazy that I could do that. Well it turns out things just got a whole more crazy as I had set the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Bees, Flowers, garden, photography, Pollination, Poppy, Summer
Leave a comment
Is it Me ?….
I have to say I would make a really really bad wildlife photographer. I just don’t have application to really a go of it. I found this out a while ago and since then I haven’t really bothered. Of course … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Bird Bath, Dunnock, garden, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, IBIS, Sony 200x600 mm Lens, Summer, Wildlife Photography, Wren
Leave a comment
Strange Old Day….
Most of the day I’ve been trying to capture the resident Wren singing and failing spectacularly! I know this sounds paranoid but I could swear they little bugger is doing it on purpose…in fact I write this I can hear … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Blue Tit, DSLR, garden, Greenfinch, photography, Sony 200x600 mm Lens, Sony A7 R Mk 3, Starling, Summer, Wildlife Photography, Woodpigeon
Leave a comment
There Goes the Neighbourhood….
Perhaps they’re a happy family – it’s just that they’re so loud! Or perhaps they’re a right pain in the neck with the kids tuning on the adults. Either way you know it when a family of Starlings descend on … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Bird feeder, Birds, garden, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Noise, photography, Squabble, Starling, Summer, Wren
Leave a comment
Last Day of Spring….
As the last day of spring draws a close to this year’s collection of crazy weather it seems I am transferring my interest to different fauna in the garden. ‘Tis the season to pollinate….
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Spring
Tagged Bees, Flowers, garden, Irises, photography, Pollination, Spring
Leave a comment
