Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Byron's Pool Grantchester

A few images taken on a camera club outing at Byron's Pool, Grantchester, yesterday evening as the sun set. It had very much an 'oil painting' feel rather than the usual soft watercolour scene with the waterlilies taking pride of place. 

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Gunby Hall NT Lincolnshire Infrared

 Yesterday was a day of very heavy showers and stormy skies for a visit to Gunby Hall, an interesting NT house with wonderful gardens and grounds (and a good tearoom!). For some of the day, I used my compact Sony RX100 which I had converted for infrared photography. Here are a few views - I usually concentrate on scenes with a mixture of buildings and vegetation and on trees.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Toft Garden Trees 1

After sessions at Paxton Pits identifying trees, I decided a catalogue of what is in my Toft (Cambridgeshire) garden would be a good plan. Hopefully this first batch are correct - note to self - label twigs as I remove from tree/bush as some are very difficult to distinguish.  We start with an oak kindly given to me as a birthday present about 20 years ago, now a fair-sized tree that needs the leader shoot cut back every year or two - host to a huge number of insects - thanks Tricia Kreyer



Sunday, February 9, 2025

Mosses and Lichens at Paxton

The wetter wooded areas of Paxton Pits rival Wistman's wood in Devon for the variety and amount of lichens and mosses attached to the trees. The first image is a single shot but many of the others are focus-stacked landscapes to give maximum depth of field. I enjoyed the variety of greens and shapes of fallen trees etc

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Icy River Walk

As I missed one bus home after an eye appointment in Cambridge today, I walked across Coe Fen to pick up the next in Newnham. Although it was pretty chilly and lots of frozen areas, nothing to compare with my first winter in Cambridge - a picture here from the press in January 1963 of people skating in the river outside the Garden House Garden.