So once again we have a new studio hidden in the depths of Liberty’s Owl Raptor And Reptile Centre near Ringwood on the edge of the New Forest. My relationship with Liberty’s goes back quite a long time now. It all started with a very large, very grumpy Bald Eagle crash landing on my head […]
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Lockdown Fun
During this second Lockdown I have been served a bit of a Catch 22 situation. As a self employed person I don’t get Furlough payments – but the nice people I spoke to at the Revenue And Customs did help me out via Working Tax Credit. That was very nice of them, it’s not much […]
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Team Mousie Harvest Mice
“Team Mousie” Harvest Mice “Team Mousie” are our Harvest Mice – cute little critters about the size of a thumb with a tail of around the same length as their little bodies. They are also super photogenic and their huge characters far exceed their diminutive size. The mice are selected as soon as they start […]
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Back To Work
Back To Work Again It is so good to be back to work again after so much upheaval in this new “Covid19” world that we now live in. Sure, I now have hazard tape all over the floor in the studio marking off every metre and various positions. There are signs on the walls reminding […]
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Light My Fire A little while ago during Corona Virus Lock-Down I spent quite a while wandering aimlessly around the Internet and somewhere along the way I came across a photo of a Cricket Ball with smoke “trailing from it” to give an impression of movement. I liked it … and decided that this was […]
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Lemming In The Grass
Lemming In Grasslands The picture shows a Steppe Lemming (Lagurus lagurus) sat in a natural looking grassy environment nibbling on something with a nice “tunnel” in the long grass behind him – exactly the kind of place that you would expect to find one of these little creatures. The reality is a little different. The […]
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Bursting My Bubble
Soap Bubble Photography 2 – Bursting My Bubble After spending quite a lot of time recently playing around with soap bubbles and getting mesmerised by the swirling colours and patterns that form on their surface I decided to get a little bit more challenging and try to work out a way of photographing the bubbles […]
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Soap Bubble Photography
Soap Bubble Photography 01 Photographing the swirling colours and patterns on a soap bubble is addictive! Every photo is different and the colour and pattern is always changing so you never quite know what you will end up with. Best of all it’s quite easy so long as you have a few necessary items of […]
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A Trip To Millers Wood Bird Photography Hides
A Trip To Miller’s Wood It’s always nice to sneak in a real day off, being outside with no paper-work to do, no lights flashing and not a Harvest Mouse to be seen! (I love the Harvest Mice but after doing 10 workshops a week with them for the last 5 months it’s nice to […]
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Last Night’s Blood Moon Jan 21st 2019 5 Go To Photograph The Blood Moon “I believe there is a rare “Blood Moon” tonight” said George as she leant over to grab another handful of Hedgehog flavored crisps. “That sounds jolly scary” said Anne. “Don’t be such a wuss Anne, it can’t hurt you, it’s just […]
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Hand Sanitiser
Hand Sanitiser July has been an expensive month for me so far. My little studio area has been cleaned up, all the props have been sorted and reorganised. I have hazard tape every meter on the floor and signs to remind people not to sit on each other. I have a 3 new high speed […]
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Seals At Donna Nook For most of the year Donna Nook is a quiet windswept little beach on the Lincolnshire coast near Saltfleet between Mablethorpe to the South and Cleethorpes to the North which is the home to an RAF live fire gunnery range and a large colony of Grey Seals. Around November each year […]
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