Monthly Archives: May 2016

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been macro-maniacs for a year now – in fact a year and a month, if you add on last year’s May Macro Mayhem, which started the whole thing. I’m not trying to claim any … Continued

Unlike a photo of an owl perched on a camera which I saw in a wildlife photography group on Facebook this morning, and which was promptly and ruthlessly demolished by the Posed Wildlife Photo Police, this shot is a happy … Continued

R and I went down to Cardiff today to take The Animator and her young man The Statistician out for lunch. It was a perfect early summer day (how much nicer a drive we would have had through the Black … Continued

Thank you so very much for your lovely comments, hearts and stars on my 730th blip yesterday – I will try to respond individually to the comments over the next couple of days, but for now I’d just like to … Continued

I should have known better. “No, really,” I said, “it’s a very easy shot. It’ll only take me a few minutes to set it up and take it.” R, who has apparently learned a few things over three decades of … Continued

What to post, what to post…? After a couple of days of feeling as though I’d forgotten how to use the camera, today I’ve had almost too good a day, and even after much culling I still have more than … Continued

After giving the situation long and careful consideration, and forensically analysing all the pros and cons, I have decided that it’s time to have a mid-life crisis. Somewhat late in the day, admittedly (unless sixty can be said to be … Continued

As it was a lovely spring day I decided to leap out of my groove once again and take trip over to the Wyre Forest, an ancient broad-leaf woodland on the opposite side of the county which is now a … Continued

I invigilated an exam today, for the first time since last summer. I have to admit that I was severely out of training. A few months ago an HR person at one of the two schools where I had been … Continued

It has been a very good year for ladybirds so far – or maybe it’s just that I’m more observant this spring than I’ve been previously. But certainly I’ve been seeing a lot of the nation’s favourite beetles, including several … Continued