Blackthorn.

Hot spring days are not normal in the UK, so I've been making the most of the current warm spell and getting out every day with the camera if I can.

#photography #landscape #river #spring #UK

Missed.

This winter was strange here, rarely very cold, very little snow and lots of misty days. It almost felt like autumn had just hung on until spring decided to turn up. I missed winter.

#photography #landscape #woodland #mist #winter

Coo Beastie.

#photography #wildlife #highlandcow

Senses.

One of my favourite parts of spring is walking through woodland and coming across wild garlic. Not only is it visually beautiful but the scent fills the air in an assault on the noise.

It makes great garlic butter too!

#photography #flowers #wildflowers #ransomes #wildgarlic #woodland

Up.

Some days you just need to lay back and watch the clouds roll past.

#photography #woodland #sky #bluesky #clouds

Spring.

Is there a more perfect place to be than an English woodland on a beautiful spring day?

#photography #landscape #woodland #bluebells #spring

Severn.

Just after dawn in the Severn vale, an area where the UK's longest river meanders and curls it's way between the Cotswolds on one side and the hills of the Forest of Dean on the other, and before anyone else woke up I was shooting this wonderfully tranquil scene from my drone.

#photography #landscape #sunrise #drone #river #church

Hopes.

11 months ago we had the most incredible aurora show, as seen in a previous post. Last night the aurora alerts went red again so I grabbed my camera and headed out to what I hoped would be another incredible show. Unfortunately this time there was only the faintest of glows visible through the camera but at least I know that this location is the right place to be for the next big on!

#photography #astrophotography #landscape #aurora #northernlights

Dawn.

Closer to home, in fact just outside my village. Returning home from photographing the sunrise I noticed this scene as I drove home. Stop the car, jump out, grab the shot, back in the car and home for a bacon sandwich. Heaven!

#landscape #sunrise #photography

Eyes everywhere.

Another Florida photo, this time out in the wild at the wonderful Circle B Bar reserve in Lakeland.

Whenever I'm out in nature my eyes are darting all over the place, looking for bugs and reptiles on the floor, mammals in the distance and birds in the canopy, even so I needed a little bit of luck to spot this guy. The luck was that I happened to be looking up to the tree tops just as this little fella changed position and the movement caught my eye. My first ever wild raccoon.

This is a heavy crop from a 500mm lens, the tree he's in just have been 30m from where I was stood and he was right at the top of the tree, probably 15m up. I'll leave it to the mathematicians amongst you to work out how far away that is! 🤣

#wildlife #raccoon #photography