Ann Miles Blog

Visited the Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool on a very bright sunny day last week and was amazed by the colours coming through the stain...

Autumn colours on the Backs in Cambridge

Bridge at Connays Quay on a very wet morning in Wales - also have some dawn shots that may be more pleasing though the sombre sky does seem...

Tried out my Canon Tilt and Shift lens on the beach huts at Wells. On the left, the beach huts when taken without any shift appear to le...

Two cafes taken on a rainy visit to Hunstanton - neither was doing much business.

The first evening of our recent camera club weekend in Wells was very windy but clear after a very wet day. The shifting sands made wonderfu...

Pensthorpe has a flock of Flamingos in their Conservation area. They periodically got very agitated and all rushed forward onto the water an...

Three more spiders from Wicken Pisaura mirabilis (right) Meta segmentata (below) Araneus diadematus (below right)

Two images from the wet Sunday of our camera club weekend in Wells-next-the-Sea. Any ideas why Hunstanton has these perfectly rounded boulde...

Taken at Sheringham station

One of a series on traditional cafes

Araneus marmoreus and Araneus quadratus

We did a detour en route to Bath to photograph the red kites around the Stokenchurch area. Amazing birds - sometimes a dozen in the sky at ...

If the old adage is true, with the hedgerows full of berries this autumn, we are in for a harsh winter. Good news for those like me that li...

Started looking back on the many photos I took in Iceland in February and have never processed or printed. I remember being so overawed by t...

Everyone else's puffins seem to be able to get their sand eels in a tidy row while mine had them all in a mess - some heads towards me a...

Even brighter staircase from Lowry Centre at Salford.

I have quite a collection of coloured staircases. This one was taken recently in Edinburgh at their discovery centre near the Scottish Parli...

With all this year's rain, should be some giant pumpkin's around for Halloween.

Last one from Ecuador - the complete catalogue of birds is now accessible from my website but this is my favourite - mainly because I have k...

Can anyone identify this orb-spinning spider seen in Ecuador - in open land west of Quito.

It was the wet season on the east of Quito and we certainly saw a lot of clouds and rain.

Taken from nearly 15,000 feet on a beautiful sunny but icy morning. Good day for a brisk walk but at that altitude everything had to be don...

Back from a week photographing birds - mainly hummingbirds in Ecuador. This one is called Shining sunbeam which seems a reasonable name for ...

Two 'anonymous' images from recent wedding at Downing College Cambridge - great location

Found this old cemetery near Kings Lynn - hoping to get back in winter when easier to see all the old graves

Picture taken on CCC Nature Group outing to Fen Drayton Pits. Liked the colours but impossible to get front wings in focus. They liked the m...

Wonderful sunset tonight as storm clouds approached from the Southeast. Combine harvester worked continuously into the night to get the whea...

A young great spotted woodpecker being fed peanuts by its parent. Only the young woodpeckers have the red head.

Seven frames taken as Mute Swan took off - all it needs is the sound track.

These are two images from a recent trip to Bass Rock in Scotland to observe the Gannet Colony. There are 50,000 breeding pairs on the rock a...

Taken at Steam and Crafts Fair at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket. Great trade in bottles of Brasso. This man is obviously conte...

The rocks were taken in the rain on Dunbar beach, Scotland. I was attracted by the purple, ochre and grey colours that became vibrant in the...

Taken in the snow on Silver Street Cambridge not Abbey Road and they didn't get the strides quite right Kids in Dublin having fun