My home In the Pyrenees for a Week

Arrived in Gedre (Gavarnie area) in time for dinner last night and a very brief walk around the small town - very quiet as everyone inside watching the World Cup! It is good to be a bit cooler away from the UK heat and to see green grass.

Gamlingay and Sandy with Temperatures Around 30 Degrees

We chose Monday, which was a very hot day in Cambridgeshire, to visit Sandy to photograph the Bee-Wolf Wasps but called in first on Gamlingay Woods where the Brimstones, Silver-Washed Fritillaries and Ringlets were out in force together with a spider enjoying a Hoverfly breakfast. At Sandy, it was too hot for me other than in the shade so my efforts were a bit limited but was pleased to see the Ruby-Tailed Wasp (Hedychrum niemelai)

Greenwich - Theme Circles and Arches

Last post from Greenwich where the theme is definitely circles - an architectural favourite in the Queens House (1-3), Maritime Museum (5,6) , Painted Hall (7, visited vestibule only as being rennovated) and the Wren Chapel (4,8).

 

Greenwich Panoramas and Wide Scenes

Greenwich views and buildings invite a panoramic treatment. I was using both in camera panorama mode 1, 3 and 4, Lightroom stitches - 2 and wide-angle lens. As part of the day, we visited the Great British Seaside and I was particularly taken with the Simon Roberts images taken of crowds from high angles so hence some of the other images.

  

The Essence of Our Greenwich Trip in Infrared

Our Annual CCC coach trip was to Greenwich this year and, like last year in Brighton, it was very hot. Here a few images quickly converted from infrared to get an idea of some of the places that we visited. The infrared certainly gives the feel of the brightness of the day among the trees and how people occupy themselves in Greenwich Park in the scorching heat.

Hawker Emergence Has Started

In the last week, we had found six empty large dragonfly nymph cases in the vegetation around our pond and on Thursday I caught this one emerging - presumably a South Hawker (we had around 100 last year https://pin-sharp.blogspot.com/2017/07/sixty-southern-hawkers-and-still.html).