From the moment I arrived in work this morning people have been saying that today will be the last day of the good weather, so with that information in hand I obviously had to get back down to the canal during my lunch break and take some photos. There were more bugs out to play [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Photo: Hoverfly in the sun
March 28th, 2012
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It’s very strange to be going out during my lunch break in March, into 22 degrees centigrade temperatures, but very nice. I think it’s a little early for much bug activity down by the canal near to where I work, certainly not the great dragonflies and bees I got to photograph last year. Still, I [...]
Photos: Ladybirds at lunch
March 23rd, 2012
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Just to clarify, I didn’t eat any ladybirds for lunch, I merely took photos of them during my lunch break. These were in the same location as yesterday so could even be the same subjects that I photographed before. Today I was able to adjust the camera settings to how I wanted them, to give [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 27: A song that you wish you could play
March 23rd, 2012
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I started this challenge back in May 2011 and as much as it may have been ok on Facebook, putting all these posts on my website didn’t work so well. So, here I am, almost a year on and with Day 27. My automatic answer to this would usually be Sweet Child O’ Mine by [...]
Photos: The first bug photos of Spring 2012
March 22nd, 2012
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I had it all worked out – camera in bag, charger in bag, nice weather for bug photography. I then forgot to charge the camera battery, so my snapping time was cut down to the 7 minutes of battery power remaining. At first glance it appeared that there were no bugs in the bushes near [...]
Photo: Invasion of the cloud people
March 21st, 2012
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I was out walking with my little boy on Monday and when I looked up in the sky I saw the most amazing cloud which looked like a huge discuss. The more I looked the more I was amazed and I don’t ever recall seeing a cloud that was so vast in area but at [...]
