Showing posts with label Royston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royston. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Pasque Flowers Beginning at Royston Heath

The Pasque flowers are just beginning to flower - a bit later than some years but will probably be best around Easter as their name suggests. They are very short so quite a challenge to photograph plus a stiff breeze today. Most are Focus stacks using Fuji X100V and Raynox 250 close-up lens. I find this a very useful high quality combination for flower photography. We found one very small bee - a Lasioglossum species

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Royston Wasp and Other Spiders

Great to find four wasp spiders on the Heath today along with other species, including Araneus quadratus with the four spots. Quite a few had caught Chalkhill blues which are abundant at the moment. Very breezy so the focus stacks did not work perfectly. The wide angle with closeup filter gave the best definition.


Thursday, June 17, 2021

Delights of Royston Heath

This year the original small colony of Adonis Blue have spread to other parts of the Heath. We visited on a windy day and therefore searched more sheltered leeward side of the hills and found mating pairs. The first three images show different approaches to photographing them 1. Using long telephoto throwing the background completely out of focus; 2. wide-angle lens with close up giving a suggestion of habitat and 3. including all the normal habitat as they generally mate on the ground. In the subsequent images several males 'bombed' the pair wanting to get in on the action. A few Pasque flowers are still in bloom. finally a Hoverfly mimic for Bumble bees.

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Pasque Flowers

 The recent cold, dry and windy weather has resulted in quite a lot of damage to the Pasque flowers this year but still a delight to see and photograph. This was our first RPS Nature Group outing since November so good to see Members can still get down to the task in hand. The weather was very cold and windy though the sun did come out later in the morning.Taken with 80mm Fuji Macro (first 6 images, the first three being focus stacks) and with Compact camera (last 4)


Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Fox Covert Royston

After a recent talk at CCC, I thought I would try using a Gepe slide mount with Anti-Newton glass to diffuse the autumn colours. It worked well although the leaves have not yet turned enough for autumn scenes.


Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so