Showing posts with label Toft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toft. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2024

'Painted' Portraits

An evening at Toft Photogroup playing around with a slide projector, some old slides and a couple of willing models, commencing with  'Van Gogh' portrait

Saturday, February 17, 2024

First Wildlife Survey in Toft 2024

The present warm temperatures (up to 18 degrees yesterday) have certainly woken up the insects in Toft. Athough the two hoverflies are the same as last year around this time - Episyrphus balteatus and Eristalis tenax - there were lots of different Diptera species, a new bug to me - the Jumping Nettle louse, lots of Ladybirds including another new species, the Pine Ladybird, an interesting Door Snail, three species of spider, and four Hymenoptera including the expected Early Bumblebee - Bombus  pratorum.

Monday, January 8, 2024

Under a Garden Log

As part of my project to record all the species in the garden, in winter I spend time photographing the fungi, mosses etc. Unfortunately a lot of them are very small stretching my macro capabilities. The first two are a couple of different crusts - very colorful with intricate scuplturing. I then located two very tiny slime mould fruiting bodies and a 3mm translucent white Spider/Harvestman plus other crusts and lichens. All will take some time (if ever to put a name to!!)

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Lichens

As it was a very wet day yesterday, I decided to try some macrophotography on the lichens that I had collected from Toft Wood. These were on a black tile with black background lit by LED light. Probably better if the lichen are dry as the water has picked up a lot of reflections or lit from the side as in the first specimen  - work in progress for rainy days!!


Sunday, December 31, 2023

New Year Flower Recording

The BSBI (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland) run a New Year Plant hunt which I completed for Toft today, recording 16 species in flower.

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