Pasque fowers Therfield Heath

 The Pasque flowers are as good as I have ever seen them this year on the heath - thousands literally of them and just about at their peak though there are plenty of buds to come. I used 24 mm tilt and shift, 24 mm prime and 100 mm macro lefthand shots)as well as my sony RX100 compact (righthand shots).Surprised at the quality of the compact - holds up well  in comparison with the expensive  Canon camera and lenses.

Oxlips and Horsetails

 There are many more Oxlips in Hayley wood (lower image) than Waresley (top three) but there is a great deal of low bramble growth that makes photographing them difficult in the former. The giant Horestails outside Waresley Wood are also in full 'bloom' at the moment.

Wedding

 A longer gap than usual between posts as the wedding has taken up a lot of time especially after the event sorting and processing the photos. Anyway 290 photos - here are just four of my family and all the bridesmaids. Sadie thoroughly enjoyed her day as the youngest. As you can see it was raining bur Emmanuel College fortunately has plenty of colonnades for photography.

Chesterfield Market

 Chesterfield has a very large bric a brac market on Thursdays - the set of images I took seemed to be predominantly red and blue and went well with four Nottingham ladies shot on Tuesday.

York Streetlife

Slimbridge 2

 A few more images from the trip to Slimbridge - Black-tailed Godwit flock, three Cranes coming into land, two fighting Rooks, a very cold Pigeon, an aggressive Herring Gull and a muddy Water Rail.

Slimbridge 1

 A few of the wild birds that we enjoyed photographing today at Slimbridge. The Cranes were a bit elusive but great to see 10 birds gathering to hopefully mate and breed. Lots of Egret, Shelduck, Black-tailed Godwits, Rooks and  Jackdaws. More to follow

Clifton Bridge

We watched this abseiler going down the side of the Clifton Gorge as a Peregrine watched him and us from the tower of the bridge. Later we saw the Peregrine further down the Gorge.