Ann Miles Blog

Spent a rather chilly hour waiting for the light levels to be balanced - there was just about 15 minutes when the sky was just dark enough ...

Photographed this small spider that had killed and was consuming an Atlas Moth caterpillar. The caterpillar is about 5 cm long so it was a v...

Monday morning was pretty foggy in Alcester where I am staying at present, so I visited a local wood but it didn't have the simple stand...

The rain really set in before lunch on Saturday but a brief dry spell tempted us to a walk in these magical woods. The top image was taken w...

Four of us decided to go and photograph Castlerigg at dawn on Saturday and, after a rather grey start and rain showers, we were rewarded wit...

It had rained most of the drive up from Cambridge but then driving along the A66 just approaching Keswick, the weather suddenly improved and...

My Sony has a night setting so I thought I would see what it does when visiting the Guildhall backstage facilities - the result is a very ...

Pensive look from Blizzard the white Bengal tiger at Hamerton Wildlife Park. Taken with 400mm lens so cage wires have been thrown out of foc...

Beautiful day and venue for Cheryl and Neil's wedding at St James the Greater , Oaks in Charnwood and reception at Beaumanor Hall on Fri...

Some favourite images from our trip to the Cambridge Botanic Gardens. I was experimenting with very shallow depth of field using 50 macro l...

Took short stroll up the hill to the park. Bath looked great in the evening light. Enlarged part of the scene to show test how sharp the pho...

There were more visitors than trees at Westonbirt this afternoon. The Acers are probably just about at their best with a combination of gree...

The recent rain has resulted in a 'bloom' of toadstools in Epping Forest. The Fly Agarics and the Porcelain Fungi are two of my favo...

Very impressive sunset this evening - impressed by the change in colour temperature within only 10 minutes as the sun went further below the...

Returned home today and was greeted in the garden by this beautiful and very obliging Common Blue butterfly on a matching Gallardia.

There may have been a lack of toadstools in Sheringham Woods today but the overnight rain brought out large numbers of toads (and frogs). Th...

There are not many fungi about in the woods at the moment as it is so dry everywhere but we did find all the stages of stink horns. They sta...

A few tree shots taken around our holiday cottage in Plumstead Green near Holt Norfolk. So far not finding Aperture as flexible for doing in...

We walked along from West Runton to Cromer today. Liked this shot of Peter and Ollie with Cromer in background. I waited a long while for a ...

Today I revisited the site where I saw a barn owl leave the barn yesterday evening . I went a bit earlier and was rewarded by the sight of t...