Tall Ships at Greenwich

We made the journey down to Woolwich and Greenwich to view the Tall Ships Festival. We were disappointed by the number of Tallships moored at these two sites and the lack of a parade on the Sunday but enjoyed the general atmosphere and the Greenwich  venues as usual. Here are the ship images from the day -  the first one of the Grayhound Lugger is my favourite as there was still mist around looking towards the sun.

Cambridge Rugby Union football club

First match of the season and Cambridge RUFC were narrowly defeated by Taunton (22/27). Sparse crowd resulted in some rather sterile backgrounds but good lighting helped make up for this. CCC's sponsored player is injured at the moment.

Addenbrookes Charitable Trust Garden Party

I helped photograph Addenbrookes' Charitable Trust's Garden Party and Hog Roast for the general staff at the hospital to promote their work in raising money for equipment etc. The next big event will be the Rudolph Run on the 7th December, an event that we enjoyed photographing last year. 

Paxton Pits Macro Day

Although a warm and humid day, the sun never quite broke through the cloud and, as a result, there were few dragons or damselflies around at Paxton. A dozen members of the Cambridge Camera Club  amused ourselves with various red-eyed flies, leafhoppers (Cicadella viridis), squash bugs (Coreus marginatus), assorted spiders, pond snails and grasshoppers. We failed to locate the reported Wasp Spider so that will be a future quest. 

Lark Rise Farm

Summer returned today with sunshine and light winds so we decided on the 'Butterfly' walk at Lark Rise Farm (http://www.countrysiderestorationtrust.com/LarkRiseFarm2.php) and were rewarded with three fairly unusual species, the Small Copper, Small Heath and Brown Argus. Also recorded Long-Horned Grasshopper, Garden Spider and Dock Bug, Coreus marginatus

The Babraham Institute

 Babraham Institute held an Open afternoon to take photos for a competition run by the BBSRC. A very informative visit though photographically quite a challenge. These are some of the basic photos that I took. Manipulation is allowed so I will see what emerges!

Quiet time at Wicken Fen

We spent a day at Wicken Fen yesterday and these four photos are the total for the day! Very few birds (other than ducks in eclipse) were seen and those we did were in full moult like this Blue Tit. Not many butterflies (Brimstones mainly) but hundreds of dragonflies - have all the Hobbies left we wondered.