Ann Miles Blog

A couple of images from John McGill's (Sculptor) garden in Toft.

Definitely weather for Ducks on Friday. Many of the tourists taking punt trips were provided with umbrellas Very pleased with the Water lil...

Just for fun - how a frog keeps his eyes clean

Some pictures from a closed-down petrol station in Eversden - great subject for infrared

I have only just had time to sort through the Red Kite pictures and find the best of the many hundreds I took on the afternoon that we spen...

A couple of images of a very acrobatic Lanner Falcon. Most of the birds that the Centre flew were young birds still in training but this Lan...

We called at the International Centre for Birds of Prey on the way back from Wales. It is situated near Newent and has a very extensive coll...

I was expecting the Welsh Valleys to be littered with remnants of the coal and steel industry. In fact, almost all traces of the former indu...

While visiting Treorchy to photograph the buildings and cemetery, we were amazed to see both a heron and a dipper in the stream alongside th...

After Monday's rain and poor light, yesterday was perfect for photographing the kites. They also obviously enjoyed the weather as, at on...

Unfortunately the light was very poor for our attempts at photographing the red kites up in the Brecon Beacons and it was raining! These two...

This huge oil refinery at Rhoscrowther has been built close to a small village - you can see the very tall church tower (marked with red arr...

We spent Saturday walking around Pembroke Dock - a town waiting to be discovered by the tourists. They are hoping to get a Harry Potter muse...

We visited Ramsey Island yesterday on a perfect sunny day. The island is off St David's Head, Pembrokeshire. It is owned by the RSPB and...

Today we visited the National Botanic Gardens of Wales built in 2000 with the main greenhouse designed by Norman Foster. It is the world...

Three images from Swansea's museum which we visited in the rain yesterday

Summer ended again yesterday evening and Monday was back to cool wet conditions. We visited Penarth which has a splendid pier and Barry Isla...

On Sunday, we visited the Newport Transporter Bridge only to find it has been closed for two years and isn't due to repopen till Oct...

Beech tree from river path and a view of the Cathedral reflected in the River Wye taken with Infrared Camera.