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Tag Archives: Bees
Summer Fun…
So the summer is here and boy have we had some glorious sunny days. Problem is the breeze has been blowing in straight from the arctic it has been really cold, by summer standards, at the same time. I’m still … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Bees, Flowers, garden, Peony, Pollination, Poppy, Summer
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Bees’ Knees
Do bees have knees? I’m sure they must: they certainly have joints galore on their legs but are any classified as knees or is there some other name? I am not an apiculturist I couldn’t say. What I can say … Continue reading
France has Sunflowers….
With the Tour de France only a few weeks away I thought this images was almost appropriate. Ok so the cyclists were hardly from the Tour de France (One day perhaps?) and the yellow flowers were buttercups rather than sunflowers … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Summer
Tagged Bees, Buttercups, Everards Pasture, Meadows, photography, Red Poppies, Tour de France, Wildflowers, Yellow
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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
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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
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15 Minutes by the Climbing Rose….
I always find that I am fighting a losing battle trying to capture bees – especially with my antiquated equipment. Hoverflies on the other hand are far more obliging.
Posted in Gardens, Macro, Summer
Tagged Bees, garden, photography, Pollination, rose
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Must it contain people?…
It would be exciting to say that huge momentous things happened to me this summer. It would be but they didn’t. Instead life just moved on with me along for the ride. Perhaps this is reflected in my photographs of … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Summer
Tagged Architecture, baseball, Bees, Building, Butterfly, Cattle, Central London, Combined Harvester, Cows, English Countryside, Farming, Flooding, Flowers, garden, Harvest, Hidcote Manor, Horse, Ladybird Books, Leicester museum and art gallery, London Series, Mercedes, MLB, Raining, River Soar, Roses, Rural, Solstice, Street Photography
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20 things you never knew about the Sony A7 Mk 2
I really do apologise for the crap clickbait title to this blog…I must try better. Anyway the real point of this post is that it is just over one year since I bought my almost new A7 Mk 2 and … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gardens, Photography, Spring, Summer, Winter
Tagged autumn, Bees, Bradgate Park, Butterfly, Cattle, Cows, Dawn, Flooding, Flowers, garden, london, photography, portrait, Ratcliffe on Soar power station, Sony A7 Mk 2, Spring, Street Photography, Summer, The Photography Show, winter, woman, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YSP
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Wandering Around…
Rain rain go away come again another day… So the traditional nursery rhyme goes. Today is the ‘another day‘ so it has given me chance to think a little about my new 85mm f1.8 lens. I have to say I … Continue reading
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