Tag Archives: Tulips

On this day…

I thought I might start an occasional series of ‘On this day…’. Not sure how long I’ll keep things up but lets see. So the image above is from 2013 – the River Soar from what is now the Everards … Continue reading

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Sign of things to come…

The early blooms are starting to fade in the garden at the moment.  However, this has not stopped the pollen count to be high which in turn has aggravated my asthma so as I sit here I have sore eyes … Continue reading

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Not always welcome…

  As summer approaches the flowers start to come out in force and it is so tempting to make photographic images of them.  But therein lies the problem.  Flowers need light to look their best but the combination of the … Continue reading

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Some kind a misunderstandin’

 

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From the bright side of the road…

What a wonderful thing it is to live in England in spring.  This is not meant to be some form of jingoistic statement but rather a reflection of just how the weather changes so quickly on these damp and green … Continue reading

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Visiting Mr McGregor’s garden

One of the enduring impressions I get when wondering around the gardens of Calke Abbey is that I am in a recreation of the garden out of Peter Rabbit.  Yesterday was not an exception.  The sun was shining, the chill … Continue reading

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A Bit of House Keeping

It is a spring cleaning day and it  has been revelatory.  I cleared a lot of images out of my KitCam Cache I discovered images that I felt needed to have some work on before they were uploaded to storage. … Continue reading

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Read the damn instructions

One day, one day I may just learn but I guess it won’t be anytime soon. You see if you read the instructions about something, in this case how KitCam works, you might just be able make even better use … Continue reading

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Interesting colours

Two images captured in the garden today. I really, really love the image quality of the Canon G1x. However, I’ve hit the focusing issue with the cloud photographs…it just wouldn’t seem to focus, however I set the aperture to around … Continue reading

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Tulips

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