Cambridge Botanic Gardens 2

 A few more images from our visit to the Gardens on Saturday including my first Bees of the year busy collecting from Winter Honeysuckle which is in full bloom. In the wooded areas some very impressive thorns and the plasmodium of a slime mould showing how wet it had been prior to our visit.

Cambridge Botanic Gardens 1

Botanic Gardens in Cambridge are at their best as regards spring flowers at the moment and looked extra good in the morning sunshine after overnight rain. I was using an old film camera 50 mm lens which gives very soft backgrounds for some of the shots and the modern 90mm macro for the rest.

Vases and Vessels

I got a bit obsessed with the various ancient pottery in the Fitzwilliam Museum and photographed several of the wonderfully inventive and elegant shapes as double exposures using the wall or floor to add texture. Here are 8 of them with a tryptic of three of the most colourful to start.. 

Early Spring at Cambridge Botanic Gardens

 The Snowdrops, Aconites, Hellebores and even Daffodils are in bloom in the University Botanic Gardens in Cambridge - unusually early.

'Christmas in Cambridge'

There are the usual attractions on Parkers Piece in Cambridge this year though it no longer has the allure of going to the 'North Pole'. I was joined by some of our photography group on Saturday at the Fair and enjoyed trying to capture the lights and excitement (though not the sounds or the smell of the various food outlets)

West Site Cambridge

On Sunday, we visited Cambridge West Site for a few photographs as the sun went down.