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August Butterflies
August 14, 2022 - Trying out a new camera - a Sony A7R IV - on some of my favorite insect subjects.
The size of the images, and their c...
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Wild Eyes, my first public exhibition
July 10, 2022 - What to say? It's not the Fraenkel, but I'm not complaining. I was asked to put together a small exhibition for the Cent...
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Carrabelle Beach
January 26, 2022 - Carrabelle Beach is most of the way from Mexico Beach to Apalachicola. IT's beautifully open, with stark white sands. Th...
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Into the woods
September 06, 2020 - It's difficult to capture the sense of immersion in the open southern woodland. It's almost a religious experience for m...
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More Butterflies, using extension tubes with a 600mm lens
August 29, 2020 - Not the most exciting of pictures, but it's difficult to get up close and personal with bigger bugs. They sort of resent...
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Butterflies
August 15, 2020 - Given the slow time (I'm isolating and there's only so many pictures one can take of our dogs) the arrival of the butter...
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Wasps and Flowers
July 04, 2020 - Playing some more with the extension tubes in this summer of the virus.
Even the wasps posed for a head shot. (These ar...
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Extension Tubes
June 05, 2020 - Extension tubes fit between the lens and the camera body and allow for extreme closeups. They're not perfect, but are an...
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Honeysuckle
May 17, 2020 - Just after the rain, the red honeysuckle seems unique to northern Alabama. (At least I've never seen it anywhere else)....
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Trumpet Flowers
April 23, 2020 - One of the more unusual wildflowers in Alabama, Trumpet flowers come out in the mid-spring, April.
They're distinctive...
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Spring flowers in the time of plague
March 21, 2020 - It's a difficult - a bloody difficult - a damned bloody difficult time.
Spring carries on.
Renewal... we will, despite...
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Tri-colored Heron
January 19, 2020 - One of the birds we saw at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge was a tri-colored heron. They're not exactly rare, just...
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Sandhill Cranes
January 12, 2020 - The sandhill cranes are back in Northeastern Alabama. These are off CR22 west of Rome. Impressive, big, noisy birds.
Th...
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Getting Close
January 04, 2020 - A follow on from my earlier post about the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
One of the things that makes for a striki...
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Space and Time
January 02, 2020 - One of my friends who is a real artist, MFA and all, Art Vandenberg, showed me a work where he made a still life from si...
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Not Just Alligators.
December 31, 2019 - Savannah National Wildlife Refuge is famous for birds and alligators. They're be more of those later. The main driving l...
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Impudent Bird
November 10, 2019 - There isn't much that scares these birds. She posed for me, even though I stood barely a meter away. The Gulls in San Di...
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Sunburst
August 29, 2019 - After a rainy night, dawn broke. I caught the sun bursting through the edge of the trees, just right. This field is bein...
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Small Whites
July 30, 2019 - These small white butterflies, which are feasting on lavender nectar, are actually "Small White" butterflies (Pieris Rap...
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The Grey Wethers
July 23, 2019 - Avebury is a world heritage site, and - unlike Stonehenge - a place where you can actually touch the stones. Most people...
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Back in the UK, Wotton Under-Edge
July 21, 2019 - Wotton under-edge is a village not too far from Bristol and a favorite local walk when we're in the UK.
We parked on th...
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Rat Snake
June 10, 2019 - I know many people aren't keen on snakes, but I've had a soft spot for black rat snakes ever since I was a summer camp c...
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Owls
June 01, 2019 - A pair of Barred Owls visited us recently. It was hard to get a good shot as they stayed in the deep shade.
These are t...
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Wild Turkey
April 23, 2019 - The wild turkeys are back in Alabama and some of them, at least, are willing to get quite close to our house.
Our dogs...
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Spring in Alabama
April 08, 2019 - I've been rather busy of late, what with my first commercial shoot (such as it was) and my university. We held another i...
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Sandhill Cranes
February 10, 2019 - The Sandhill Cranes are back at their winter refuge outside of Centre Alabama. They congregate in the harvested fields b...
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Impermanence
January 14, 2019 - The real or the ideal? To paraphrase Plato, which is more real the image or its reflection in the lake.
One of those ar...
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Flooding
January 07, 2019 - This winter has been wet; rather wet to say the truth. Lake Weiss, where this is made, is a flood-control lake and it's...
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Birding with your telephoto
January 06, 2019 - I was having fun, trying to catch some of the local fauna with a telephoto (A sigma 150-600 zoom, which is OK as a lens...
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Winter
December 31, 2018 - The sun has dipped into the south taking the light and color with it. The rain has washed what's left away. Even the fis...
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Bon Secour NWR
December 23, 2018 - A follow up to my post on RVs.
One of the highlights of our trip was exploring the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. We...
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Bon Secour NWR
December 18, 2018 - One of the few places on the gulf shore that you can get to the dunes is Bon Secour NWR. We weren't there at the best ti...
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Pelicans
December 16, 2018 - We're exploring the Gulf Shores, near Mobile AL. These are the more cannonical pelicans, very different from the white a...
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Frost
December 11, 2018 - Winter is (finally) here in the South. I caught the frost on our leaves before the sun melted it.
Something of an abs...
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That season of mellow fruitiness
November 07, 2018 - Fall is, finally, coming to the Atlanta area. When you get the light right, it's intensely beautiful color. Nothing as g...
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Autumn
November 02, 2018 - Cold, wet, and fall. Autumn is finally upon us. I've been experimenting with image effects.
Becomes, after processing:...
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Persimmons
October 29, 2018 - One of the joys of the rural South are the persimmon trees. Persimmons grow further North (I've harvested them just outs...
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Remediating Grain
October 04, 2018 - I made this image a couple of months ago, at dawn, using a 600mm lens and a film speed of 3200. The apparent grain is la...
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Fall Sunflowers
October 01, 2018 - We have a fair lot of logged over areas in Alabama. In Autumn, they erupt into swarms of these flowers.
It feels as if...
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Orb Weaver
September 23, 2018 - The onset of Fall brings out the Orb Weavers. Argiope Aurantia, The golden garden spider or golden orb weaver is one tha...
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Blackberries
September 15, 2018 - The blackberries were turning ripe in the UK. This shows a few ripe ones with the mixture of colors of unripe ones. (It'...
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That time of year.
August 12, 2018 - The deer were out again. Not completely surprising because it's illegal to hunt so close to houses, but still neat. They...
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Deer Sequence
August 05, 2018 - Our local herd is mixed gender - mostly female with a fawn, and one buck. He's just spotted me
Is that dangerous?
Le...
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Mother and Fawn
August 04, 2018 - Caught this image this morning. It's a bit grainy, which given the time (dawn), the lens (600mm) and the shooting positi...
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The Joy of Frogs
July 29, 2018 - A selection of the Genus Rana
From my wildlife gallery
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Coastal California
July 23, 2018 - This is one of my favorite images from California. Simple, stark, and yet (at least to my eyes) somewhat moving. It's ac...
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Dunster Loop #Exmoor #UKwalks
July 28, 2017 - I’ve been queuing up a series of walks – mostly about 10 km (6 miles for us colonials), and this is the second.
This...
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Dunkery Beacon #UKwalks
July 09, 2017 - I’ve been queuing up a series of walks – mostly about 10 km (6 miles for us colonials), and this is the first.
Dunkery...
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Peas Potatoes and Gutter Cleaning.
March 04, 2017 - Ah, spring. Even though it’s early March, it’s already late spring in Georgia.
The early Daffodils are fading.
And...
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