I was at the National Botanic Garden of Wales a couple of weeks ago and as the weather was so poor I was forced in doors, not a bad option as the place has the largest single span glasshouse in the world.
Tag: Abstract
New Series of Walks With Caerphilly Countryside Services
Following 0n from the success of last years walks we are running a further two this year in spring and the autumn.
Brecon Beacons – The Quiet Way Up
Somerset Levels No.2
Filed under: Articles, Birds Eloquent ProjectTagged with: Abstract, Bird Behaviour, Species
Somerset Levels No. 1
Last weekend I took a trip to the ‘Levels’ to see the now very famous Starling roost.
Welcome Back
Autumn Walk from Hollybush
10 Recent Images
I’ve been out and about to various parts of the country in the last week or so, and as always camera with me, without it you feel somehow undressed.
What Bird Did That?
Photography Course on Flat Holm
The Cost of Luxury
Whatever your environmental concerns, and mine are many, it’s awe inspiring to sail through Milford Haven and wonder at the engineering feet that confronts you at every turn. On our trip out to the Smalls from Neyland we passed a whole array of tankers and three monsters in particular stood out.
Abstract Water: Spray
Waterfalls 1
Fields of Yellow
Abstract Sheep
Wales has the highest density of sheep in the world, some nine million, so it’s probably not surprising that many landscape images in my collection are dotted with small white specks, and at times I’ve been cloning out these specks not realising they were sheep at all!
Question the Rule of Thirds
There is a lot written about the rules of thirds on the Internet as an aid to photographic composition, much of it giving sound advice with regard to applying the rule, its origins and the fact that it must not be seen as the ‘holy grail’ for the creation of fine images.
Around Every Corner – A New Publication
This week ‘Around Every Corner’ is published. It’s very much a visual book and looks at the landscape and wildlife of the County Borough of Caerphilly in a slightly different way than most of traditional landscape books might do. It’s a publication that very much celebrates the landscape and wildlife of an area that is often overlooked in favour of its near neighbour, the Brecon Beacons. It also shows what the Landscape Services within Caerphilly County Council are protecting and promoting, often via the grant system available through the European Community.
Losing the Label
I am currently reading Mark Cocker’s beautifully written book ‘Crow Country’ in which he goes in search of the Rooks and Jackdaws that he first encounters in the Yare Valley in Norfolk. There is a small paragraph towards the beginning of chapter six that should be read and digested by anyone who wants to look a little harder to find the extraordinary in the everyday. Although he is concerned with nature watching what he says can be applied to all aspects of looking.
‘… every time you pin a label on a living creature it reaffirms a sense of mastery over it. The naming of the thing gives you the wonderfully reassuring illusion that you know it. You don’t. Sometimes all you have is a single datum. The name. In a bizarre way, the process of recognition can actually be a barrier rather than a doorway to genuine appreciation’