All image produced by me are Copyright
Copyright – © Simon Marchini 2019. All Rights reserved. Not to be used without permission
When Posted….
February 2026 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -
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
- evening
- 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
- 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
Tag Archives: Summer
Photober 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
So when I started Photober at the beginning of the month I thought it would be straight forward. Just pick an image a day from my back catalogue – what could be more difficult? Well actually, the most difficult thing … Continue reading
Photober 13 …
The sun sets in the west and this is about as far west as you can get in Wales (roughly in line with Newquay in Cornwall so not quite as far west as you can go in mainland Britain). It … Continue reading
Posted in Photober
Tagged Beach, Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire, Photober, Summer, sunset
Leave a comment
Another Month Gone….
My friend told me the other week that when it comes to calculating how manys years such and such happened you must always remember to add one to your estimation because we all seem to have mental blockage about 2020. … Continue reading
Posted in Corvid 19, Photography, Summer
Tagged Covid, evening, Flower, garden, Kedleston Hall, Lunar, Moon, National Trust, Pollination, Summer
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
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
Something Strange in the Neighbourhood….
So there I was sitting in the garden on this glorious first day of summer waiting to see what birds might come along when I looked up and noticed something strange – a jet aircraft on a very unusual flight … Continue reading
