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White bee

At the pub in Hursley on Friday, a white bee landed on the table outside. An unusual colour, I think it might be an andrena cineraria, a type of miner bee. Ive never seen one before, but it was quite cool to look at.

Cactus flowers

I finally got round to posting some photos I took last year of the cactus I have flowering. It has only done it twice in the ~6 years I have had it, and this time it had quite a few flowers. The macro photos of it came out the best, helped by sheets of A4 . . . → Read More: Cactus flowers

Infra-red photowalk

It seems I never put the photos from the Southampton Photo Walk 2010 on my blog… Oh well, better late than never I suppose.

The blog page that talked about last year’s walk seems to have disappeared, but there is still a flickr group

Here’s what I took (in with my infra-red camera)

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Wales

On the first May bank holiday this year a few friends from work, and some of their partners, decided that as most of us had not climbed Snowdon before that this would be a good time to do it (of course Andy had planned the trip months before and found an awesome cottage for the . . . → Read More: Wales

Hampshire Country Parks

A few weeks ago we decided to back to Manor Farm Country Park to enjoy the surprisingly sunny Sunday. Naturally the camera came with me (click on photo for a larger version)

And last weekend we went to Itchen Valley Country park, which is also very close to Southampton, and I got some . . . → Read More: Hampshire Country Parks

Cactus photos

Recently I decided that I should have another go at some macro shots of the cactuses that are sat on my window sill. The photos below were taken with one or two speedlights with a sheet of A4 paper to diffuse the light and wireless triggers (ironically called Cactus triggers) to fire them.

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