Summer Leys Macro Day

While photographing these rain drops at Summer Leys Nature Reserve early yesterday morning my eyes fell upon a Wasp Spider in its web - apparently a first for their reserve so the jungle drums beat (or more likely the internet buzzed) and, by lunchtime, lots of photographers arrived to see the spider. There were plenty of macro subjects in good light with sheltered still areas for them to display - ideal for a day out for the RPS Nature Group.

Early Light Garden Images

Great fun taking contre jour images in the garden especially the spiders.

Three years Pass on Hills Road Cambridge

As part of our ongoing CCC project to record changes in the Streets of Cambridge since our 2001-4 survey, I spent an hour photographing Hills Road (see Documenting Cambridge). As I did an interim visit in 2020, it is interesting to see how much has changed in just 3 years rather than the 20 of the main project. For instance, Richer Sounds (who have kindly sponsored our Annual Exhibition) have built a new shop further into town along with lots of other changes while Tescos remains essentially unaltered.

Garden Project 18 - Maturity

 I try to remember to document the garden through the year as part of my project to produce a Wildlife garden with as many habitats as I can in the smallish area of my front garden. Here a snapshot of a (late)summer garden when flowers are beginning to die back but still plenty of wildlife in the Herbaceous borders, Pond, Hedgerow, Woodland and Meadow. Some of the inhabitants are shown with their chosen plant.